Hi and welcome to the madness, as said before a decent set of tyres and Vauxhalls finest will go places you would not believe.
I regularly do trips on Salisbury Plain with the Land Rover boys and always get "I thought you would struggle in the Frontera" comments but at the end of the day most of them are astounded by the off road ability.
I would prefer a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
Seek not excess, God hates he who roams !