Hi folks

I've been overlanding with a 20 year old Prado for four years. Maintenance of the front end is too costly and time consuming and I've decided that I want a Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ76 for the toughness, the four doors and the rigid front axle.

I'm a citizen of Switzerland, but I don't have a residence anywhere. I'm in Ethiopia, going next to Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Oman and Iran.

In which country could a tourist, that is a non-resident, register a HZJ76? Import duties and VAT should be low or reasonable. License document and license plates should be non-expiring and replaceable without personally traveling to the respective country. Preferably I'd buy the car in the same country but I could RoRo it from one of those European dealers that usually sell to NGOs.

It's tricky because the HZJ76 is unavailable in all the 1st world countries and the remaining developing world countries tend to have high import duty and more difficult bureaucracy. I don't want the V8 76 series because it's expensive and I don't wanna own two cylinder heads .

I consider left hand drive or right hand drive. I'm planning another long South American tour but I'm also trying to get a residence permit for Namibia.

In Namibia, they stopped importing the HZJ76 in 2014 in favor of the VDJ76. I could buy a used one there but in Namibia you officially need a residence permit to register a car. I don't have knowledge about south Africa but I read that registering cars is a major hassle.

I get the impression that it could be done in Australia but the HZJ76 there would be 10 years or older but I would prefer a new one. EDIT: I just remembered that Australia never had the HZJ76.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks
Rob