Is the Range Rover Sport the apex in arsehole wheels ?

[T & P]

they've certainly cornered the UN market

I guess for people who can’t afford its big brother. Probably doesn’t export as well. Don’t think there’d Be many about in the likes of the UAE or the US.

According to many in this forum it is actually an unreliable, bad quality piece of junk as well. Not sure if it’d be actually that bad, perhaps there is an element of snobbery at play.

 

[kebabking]

I guess for people who can’t afford its big brother. Probably doesn’t export as well. Don’t think there’d Be many about in the likes of the UAE or the US.

According to many in this forum it is actually an unreliable, bad quality piece of junk as well. Not sure if it’d be actually that bad, perhaps there is an element of snobbery at play.

To some extent yes, but they are wildly over-priced and less reliable than their competitors, things like the Mitsubishi Shogun, Nissan Pathfinder etc...

I see more Range Rovers and Landrovers on the back of recovery trucks than I see any other brand - by a huge margin.

 

[not-bono-ever]

they've certainly cornered the UN market

I know plenty of UN badged white landcruisers lasting a matter of days before being pinched and replated for use by local bad boys. sometimes not even replated. I cannot conceive of a local bad boy who would want to cruise the potholed mortared tracks of his home town in a LR product that sheds a significant percentage of its own bodyweight everytime it is driven.

 

[rubbershoes]

they've certainly cornered the UN market

Toyota hilux have cornered the Al Shabaab market

 

[not-bono-ever]

I cannot imagine the outcome if some local AQ franchise decided to nail a 50 cal to the back of a LR product and start an insurrection. fucking hell

eta- i think costas/ callan had the idea of doing this in Angola to form a fast moving hit group to halt the dastardly commies. that didnt end well

 

[DownwardDog]

I've owned a Range Rover and I've owned a Hilux. I know which one I'd choose to do jihad in and it's not the one made in the midlands.

 

[likesfish]

I know plenty of UN badged white landcruisers lasting a matter of days before being pinched and replated for use by local bad boys. sometimes not even replated. I cannot conceive of a local bad boy who would want to cruise the potholed mortared tracks of his home town in a LR product that sheds a significant percentage of its own bodyweight everytime it is driven.

my regiment kept itself in beers and smokes "recovering" 4x4s taken from the UN and media in Bosnia as a 30mm cannon and a chaingun and chobham armour beat aks and a machine gun

 

[rubbershoes]

I've owned a Range Rover and I've owned a Hilux. I know which one I'd choose to do jihad in and it's not the one made in the midlands.

Range Rovers may come with champagne flutes but there's nowhere to fit a GPMG

 

[kebabking]

Range Rovers may come with champagne flutes but there's nowhere to fit a GPMG

Actually I saw one in Bosnia in 94/95 - they had taken the roof and door off of the boot compartment, welded a cage frame into place and put a DShKM mount onto the cage.

It had been sprayed a remarkably visible dark bottle green - and I think the bloke in the back had died of hypothermia about a week previously.

 

[rubbershoes]

Actually I saw one in Bosnia in 94/95 - they had taken the roof and door off of the boot compartment, welded a cage frame into place and put a DShKM mount onto the cage.

That's going to play havoc with your fuel consumption

 

[Poi E]

Actually I saw one in Bosnia in 94/95 - they had taken the roof and door off of the boot compartment, welded a cage frame into place and put a DShKM mount onto the cage.

It had been sprayed a remarkably visible dark bottle green - and I think the bloke in the back had died of hypothermia about a week previously.

ABiH? Guessing the VRS didn't need to cobble such things together.

 

[BigTom]

Toyota Prius obviously the vehicle of choice for your discerning eco-terrorist freedom fighter



Suddenly a Land Rover seems like a sensible choice of vehicle.

 

[Cheesepig3]

If I could afford a Range Rover I'd buy it. A proper one though, not the sport.

Exactly.


A proper one with proper tyres, so that when you're driving to do maintenance on a wind turbine up a Scottish mountain, in the snow, you don't get stuck.


HAHAHAAAHAHA!!! THAT'S how you curdle a metropolitan green boring droning smug fucker's brain when they get all snooty about your Rangie. Hah! You think I'm going up Millennium Mountain on a fucking bike? In January?


And no it's not a sport.

 

[kebabking]

I saw three broken down Discovery's yesterday - I only drove from Worcester to Stratford and back....

 

[Cheesepig3]

I saw three broken down Discovery's yesterday - I only drove from Worcester to Stratford and back....

They need nurturing.


In fact, they need to be a co-signatory on your bank account.

 

[Smick]

if that is in that London, it will be virtually unsellable from next year. Then again, the driver is probabaly ahead of the curve on making it unsellable anywhere.

My big beef with the older LR group output is that, a handful aside, they never actually go anywhere. I dont mean off road, just like fucking anywhere outside a 10 mile radius of their house. Its just shit, wasterful and offensive.

I know that car! It used to be parked in a disabled spot up behind the cinema in Streatham.

Interestingly, it has recently been sold. It used to have a number plate which ended 81TCH. Last time I went past the pink RR was gone.

The photo must be under the new ownership with the new nimberplate.

 

[DownwardDog]

Who wants a "1,000hp" electric 4x4 assembled by children in India?

 

[T & P]

 

[High Voltage]

But it's a THOUSAND BRAKE HORSEPOWER - What's not to like . . . apart from the colour, and I quite like green cars

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I had a women yesterday at my humble Xmas tree stall. The price of the trees were obviously an issue for her, so I spent some time finding a full 4 foot instead of the 5 foot she was thinking about. Offered to help carry it to her.

Which was a fucking Range Rover and probably worth more then I'll earn this year.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

But it's a THOUSAND BRAKE HORSEPOWER - What's not to like . . . apart from the colour, and I quite like green cars

Its for all your off road adventures. Provided you don't stray to far from a plug socket.

 

[High Voltage]

But it's a THOUSAND BRAKE HORSEPOWER - who cares where the plug socket is

 

[Poi E]

I had a women yesterday at my humble Xmas tree stall. The price of the trees were obviously an issue for her, so I spent some time finding a full 4 foot instead of the 5 foot she was thinking about. Offered to help carry it to her.

Which was a fucking Range Rover and probably worth more then I'll earn this year.

Knocked you down on price and got you to carry it. My esteem for RR drivers has increased.

 

[dessiato]

I had a women yesterday at my humble Xmas tree stall. The price of the trees were obviously an issue for her, so I spent some time finding a full 4 foot instead of the 5 foot she was thinking about. Offered to help carry it to her.

Which was a fucking Range Rover and probably worth more then I'll earn this year.

I've always found new money behaves this way. They have got wealthy by being over cautious with every penny. Old money just doesn't spend it in the first place, but if they must have something they'll pay.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Knocked you down on price and got you to carry it. My esteem for RR drivers has increased.

First against the wall tbh

 

[OzT]

First against the wall tbh

Only if she's attractive

 

[hash tag]

Why against a wall if they have a rr, what's wrong with the inside. The seats recline surely?

 

[DownwardDog]

6x6 Mercedes X-Class conversion. Those Potenzas will be great off road.

 

[Poi E]

Nearly a fascist estate.

 

[hash tag]

Problem with its capability?