Well, we did talk a lot about it…Jose was looking in Spain, I was looking in Germany…we were initially entrusted with the responsibility of buying the vehicle. But thanks to the new rules, we had to dish out quite a bit of money up front and of course, we live in financially very interesting times right now….so we didn’t make too much progress on that.
It was then that we realised the treasure trove that is the UK. Possibly due to the fact that the English prefer to drive their vehicles on the “right” side of the road, cars there were amazingly cheap! Of course, an additional advantage possibly being easier paperwork for the rally as the adventurists are experienced with UK vehicles a bit. So we shifted focus there…of course, Raja took on the responsibility of finding a decent car for us. We checked out big vans initially…and the rally people were quite interested in such a vehicle. I can imagine why that would make a hell a lot of sense for a place like Mongolia rather than a smallish car which might not be able to carry lots of stuff.
I did come across something called an LDV in our used vehicle search. It was a monster of a vehicle…18 seater thereabouts…and pretty cheap. Of course, reliability was at rock bottom is what we found out much later…but was quite interesting to know about this anyway. 
We also looked at the smaller cars as prescribed in the site…possibly 2 of them for the whole team…that remains to be seen.
What almost was...
Anyway, we have currently shortlisted a couple of vehicles….once we have something bought and shacked up in a garage, we would let you know!
AND i didn’t have any team mates…and even i would be a bit daft to do this alone! Many months passed…i did spread the word a bit…hoping to find the right combination of daring, stupidity and sheer intensity of purpose to get lost and somehow find some goddamn way out…