Is the Range Rover Sport the apex in arsehole wheels ?
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kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
what ViolentPanda said - not only are they badly made crap, but landies are astonishingly uncomfortable to drive for more than about 15 minutes, and given how slow they are, you ain't getting anywhere in 15 minutes. to drive even a newish Defender from Gloucester to Dumfries is to know pain like no other human being in history.
if you want a rugged, utility, not cunty, fix it yourself, reliable, comfortable 4X4 go for something like a Mitsubushi Shogun/Pajero or Isuzu Trooper/Vauxhall Monteray. you'll get a decent, driveaway vehicle for £1500.
if you're really desperate for that LR experience, just send me the £20,000 and i'll cripple you and leave you by the roadside - that would, at least, get it over with. unlike owning a LR...
if you want a rugged, utility, not cunty, fix it yourself, reliable, comfortable 4X4 go for something like a Mitsubushi Shogun/Pajero or Isuzu Trooper/Vauxhall Monteray. you'll get a decent, driveaway vehicle for £1500.
if you're really desperate for that LR experience, just send me the £20,000 and i'll cripple you and leave you by the roadside - that would, at least, get it over with. unlike owning a LR...
bimble
floofy
They can't really be badly made crap if still reliably doing their job 60 odd years on can they?
But I hear you kebabking , you're the voice of reason, come to save me from a humungous mistake based only on aesthetics.
Might as well admit that i'm talking about buying my first ever car, so yeah, a giant overpriced antique is probably not the obvious choice.
But I hear you kebabking , you're the voice of reason, come to save me from a humungous mistake based only on aesthetics.
Might as well admit that i'm talking about buying my first ever car, so yeah, a giant overpriced antique is probably not the obvious choice.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
you know how Hunter wellies were really good about 12/15 years ago - and then wellies went fashionable, the 'slebs started wearing them and Hunter discovered that there are enough idiots in the world that you can, in fact, sell a really shit, badly made with crap materials wellie for the same price as a really well made, with excellent materials wellie as long as its got the right badge on?
i give you LR...
You were going to buy a Land Rover based on aesthetics ???
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Of course they can. Any S1 LR still on the road now will have had thousands of man-hours and tens of thousands of pounds poured into it. It will require much more of the same to keep it capable of moving under its own power.
bimble
floofy
You were going to buy a Land Rover based on aesthetics ???
bimble
floofy
You can't seriously be immune to the charms of a thing like this - look at it all feminine and minty-fresh.You were going to buy a Land Rover based on aesthetics ???
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
yeah, but the filth take a very dim view of people driving up the M5 with kids and dogs hanging out of a stripped down Landy with no doors.
bloody fun police...
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I used to buy, repair and sell Land Rovers in my youth, so I've owned quite a few.
This air-transportable/lightweight was the cleanest I ever had.
It was an ex military one, and the chassis had been completely coated in bitumen. It was like brand new underneath. Looking at the silly money they go for now, I should have kept it.
SWB Land Rovers are a complete waste of space. You'd hold more in the boot of a decent car.
Actually, all of those Land Rovers are a complete waste of space.
This air-transportable/lightweight was the cleanest I ever had.
It was an ex military one, and the chassis had been completely coated in bitumen. It was like brand new underneath. Looking at the silly money they go for now, I should have kept it.
SWB Land Rovers are a complete waste of space. You'd hold more in the boot of a decent car.
Actually, all of those Land Rovers are a complete waste of space.
not-bono-ever
meh
I have done LR and they are the worst shit you can imagine. make no mistake, you will spend more time trying to make it go than actually going anywhere. You are going to get very familiar with digging around in the rusty corners of your log passed grandads toolbox trying to find the right size of imperial spanner to fit a rounded nut that seems to be formed of a lead/mercury mix. I am open about my love for crap cars and exaggerate their shitness but nothing comes close to how bad LRs really are. Not funny.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
They're not massive. They're just shit. The inner rear wheel arches occupy more floor space than is available for carrying stuff. A 5 gallon drum of diesel is about all you can fit in.
I'm starting to remember how much I hate them
OzT
Online early mornings when at work ....
likesfish
You can't park here sir
Land Rover Defender | Kahn Design Packages | Alloy Wheels | Car Parts | The world's leading automotive fashion house
I must apologise to overfinch I thought they were responsible for this horror its a Kahndesign you can have it in grey and hi vis orange if you hate everybody
. If I win the lottery dylanredisigned will be annoying the denizens of portsmouth with one
. If I win the lottery dylanredisigned will be annoying the denizens of portsmouth with one
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Land Rover Defender | Kahn Design Packages | Alloy Wheels | Car Parts | The world's leading automotive fashion houseI must apologise to overfinch I thought they were responsible for this horror its a Kahndesign you can have it in grey and hi vis orange if you hate everybody
If I win the lottery I'll buy one and donate it to the RAF to use their largest bomb on it...
hash tag
Books, not bombs
"Careful though, a lot of these cars were modified by footballers with poor taste, and people who wanted to look like they were footballers with poor taste..."
Range Rover Sport
Range Rover Sport
Nope, you feel quite vulnerable, wondering if the fucker will get you to where you are going.
Rosemary Jest
Wrong and Unstable
The other half's dad has got a lwb defender from the 90s. It's got nearly 300,000 miles on the clock to be fair, but it's always getting fixed.
The thing is rusting away and is a heap, I hate it.
I'd second what others have said, it's tiny inside, sitting in the back is like a contortionists act and the front isn't much better. It doesn't have much room in the boot either, for the size of the thing.
Plus, you can feel every bump, its like riding in a shopping trolley over a mountain track, and that's just nipping to the shops.
He's had them all his life and lives out in the sticks in Scotland so fair play to him, but they are horrible transport. I dread getting in the thing, its like a backwards tardis. Imagine getting in and old mini and you've got the inside of a land rover.
The thing is rusting away and is a heap, I hate it.
I'd second what others have said, it's tiny inside, sitting in the back is like a contortionists act and the front isn't much better. It doesn't have much room in the boot either, for the size of the thing.
Plus, you can feel every bump, its like riding in a shopping trolley over a mountain track, and that's just nipping to the shops.
He's had them all his life and lives out in the sticks in Scotland so fair play to him, but they are horrible transport. I dread getting in the thing, its like a backwards tardis. Imagine getting in and old mini and you've got the inside of a land rover.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
It is why Land Rover lost all its former markets like Australia etc because along came Toyota with their Land Cruiser which had coil suspension and decent interiors and Land Rover just continued doing what it had always done. That is my understanding at least.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
And breaking down in the outback in a gazillion degrees heat probably loses its appeal after a while.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
LR's crapness was behind one of the potentially greatest disasters the British Army has faced since 1945 - in 2003 a certain unit was chased through Northern and western Iraq for days by local militia groups who could go faster and carry heavier weapons than them in Japanese 4x4's.
They were crawling along at 15mph having their bones rattled and lumps falling off their wagons while the Fedayeen were happily cruising along at 30mph over the same terrain in Toyota pickups.
In the end the whole thing was a washout - the Sqn split up and all the wagons were either destroyed by enemy fire, broken by the terrain or blown up when the Sqn was eventually evacuated by helicopter.
They are utter shit.
OzT
Online early mornings when at work ....
It's true LR has lost the market back home cause the Japanese 4x4 were just so much better and reliable.
A little note here, not a lot of people know this. Rolls Royces were big sellers back home (relatively speaking) in the early 1900s for station owners in the bush, not because they were trying to be posh, but they were the most reliable cars back then.
A little note here, not a lot of people know this. Rolls Royces were big sellers back home (relatively speaking) in the early 1900s for station owners in the bush, not because they were trying to be posh, but they were the most reliable cars back then.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
The Vitara was the worst motor I have ever driven. It was an early soft top one. It was cold, noisey, draughty, underpowered and very poorly built. At a push, on a long downhill will a hurricane force tail wind, it might get up to 80. Thankfully it belonged to an ex who bought it from new!
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