I should declare that the "snap" sound on my S10 was the rotor coming off inside of the distributor cap.

Two little screws holding the rotor plate down came undone, I put some lock-tight on the screws and reset them. Truck is running fine now.

I saw a nice Land Rover Discovery II (pre-LR3 series) on a used car lot today, nice but it's no Vehicross. Still the extensive use of aluminum is an attraction, read that 2004 has the better/larger engine and would be the year to get. Even more reading makes it look equally problematic if not more troublesome than a VX.

Looking and dreaming is cheap, gotta come up with the 3.5k-7k required first.