When Chris Scott branched out from motorcycles to 4×4 exploration in the Sahara, there was only one vehicle on his list: Toyota’s legendary Land Cruiser. It was while regularly travelling the Australian Outback for Rough Guides years earlier that he grew to admire these rugged workhorses with big engines, tough transmission and doors that closed with a clunk, not a slam. Setting off for Libya to start research his Sahara Overland guidebook in 1998, things however did not go to plan.
