Is the Range Rover Sport the apex in arsehole wheels ?

[Rosemary Jest]

I was followed by a ‘19 reg RR sport at the weekend until it found a dangerous blind corner to effortlessly overtake me. I thought it was a pair of motorbikes , as one headlamp was utter cockeyed and seemed to be permanent full beam. How can a newish car have issues like this ?

I've noticed the headlight issue on the commute recently, every time I am blinded by a car coming the other way, it's usually a Range Rover Sport. It must be a design fault, unless the drivers are just too thick to dip their lights?

An MOT failure, surely?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I've noticed the headlight issue on the commute recently, every time I am blinded by a car coming the other way, it's usually a Range Rover Sport. It must be a design fault, unless the drivers are just too thick to dip their lights?

An MOT failure, surely?

JLR products in heap of shit shocker!

 

[dessiato]

I've noticed the headlight issue on the commute recently, every time I am blinded by a car coming the other way, it's usually a Range Rover Sport. It must be a design fault, unless the drivers are just too thick to dip their lights?

An MOT failure, surely?

Or both

 

[dessiato]

I’ve been looking at possibly buying one.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I’ve been looking at possibly buying one.

why

 

[Rosemary Jest]

why

To blind other road users?

 

[hash tag]

Either a range rover or a bigger television or maybe to collect a bigger television. Either way, it could be a substitute for one's inadequacies

 

[dessiato]

why

Because we are looking at buying a house in the mountains so we can go skiing and down the mountains to the beach to go SUP and fishing in the afternoons.

 

[kebabking]

Because we are looking at buying a house in the mountains so we can go skiing and down the mountains to the beach to go SUP and fishing in the afternoons.

In which case get a Nissan Pathfinder. Its a bit like a RR, but half the price, not built by a fuckwit having a seizure, or owned by a massive, suppurating cunt. We have one - it's brilliant.

Mitsubishi Shoguns are also very good.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Kia Sportage, cheaper to buy cheaper to run does the same thing but breaks down less

 

[not-bono-ever]

Because we are looking at buying a house in the mountains so we can go skiing and down the mountains to the beach to go SUP and fishing in the afternoons.

dont. please dont. a Dacia duster is the default country wheels for the budget minded consumer these days. far better and more capable than you think it would be

 

[dessiato]

I’ll have a look. But RR in Spain have a different cachet to that in the UK.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I’ll have a look. But RR in Spain have a different cachet to that in the UK.

What’s Spanish for RAC? You will need to gen up on that.

 

[dessiato]

What’s Spanish for RAC? You will need to gen up on that.

RACE already got it

 

[kebabking]

I’ll have a look. But RR in Spain have a different cachet to that in the UK.

The cachet may not travel, but the build quality does. I'm assuming the price does as well....

 

[Spymaster]

But RR in Spain have a different cachet to that in the UK.

Not that different though is it. Whilst in the UK we think that RR drivers are dickheads, in Spain the common attitude is that all British cars are overpriced and driven by show-offs.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Any one driving a LR with a canvas hood has probably lots of experience of being waterboarded

Not great when you are in the back either. I rolled a SWB Landrover once, thankfully I was wearing a seatbelt, which wasn't compulsory then.

 

[A380]

I’ll have a look. But RR in Spain have a different cachet to that in the UK.

So does Bull fighting- it doesn’t make that a good idea either.

 

[Rosemary Jest]

Face it, any car, a cheap hatchback, with snow/ winter tyres will be just as capable, if not more capable than a Range Rover Sport off road or in bad weather.

Your feet are more capable, and they're free, relatively speaking. Plus, your feet aren't a pair of cunts, most probably.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Not great when you are in the back either. I rolled a SWB Landrover once, thankfully I was wearing a seatbelt, which wasn't compulsory then.

 

[dessiato]

Face it, any car, a cheap hatchback, with snow/ winter tyres will be just as capable, if not more capable than a Range Rover Sport off road or in bad weather.

Your feet are more capable, and they're free, relatively speaking. Plus, your feet aren't a pair of cunts, most probably.

I’ve driven in deep snow, mud, and beaches. What you say is true, to a point, but a 4x4 will do it better than a cheap hatchback, even with winter tyres.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Face it, any car, a cheap hatchback, with snow/ winter tyres will be just as capable, if not more capable than a Range Rover Sport off road or in bad weather.

It really won't. I might dislike RRs, and most certainly dislike most of the types that drive them, but a Nissan Micra aint gonna do this.

 

[ska invita]

 

[DownwardDog]

Face it, any car, a cheap hatchback, with snow/ winter tyres will be just as capable, if not more capable than a Range Rover Sport off road or in bad weather.

Your feet are more capable, and they're free, relatively speaking. Plus, your feet aren't a pair of cunts, most probably.

RR Sports are great off road; far better than an econobox because they've got self-levelling suspension, two speed transfer cases, locking diffs, etc. It's the not the capability that's the issue but the abysmal build quality.

 

[Rosemary Jest]

It's the not the capability that's the issue but the abysmal build quality.

I think it might be the arseholes driving them that is the real issue here.

And the lack of legal headlights, obviously.

 

[kabbes]

If you want to drive off-road there are much better and cheaper cars for it than Range Rovers. If you want to drive on-road there are much better and cheaper cars for it than Range Rovers. If you want to drive on icy roads there are much MUCH better and cheaper cars for it than Range Rovers. Frequently these are all the same cars.

 

[dessiato]

If you want to drive off-road there are much better and cheaper cars for it than Range Rovers. If you want to drive on-road there are much better and cheaper cars for it than Range Rovers. If you want to drive on icy roads there are much MUCH better and cheaper cars for it than Range Rovers. Frequently these are all the same cars.

X5?

 

[kabbes]

X5?

No. None of the wankermobiles.

 

[dessiato]

No. None of the wankermobiles.

So what do you suggest is a good vehicle for driving off-road in snow, on the motorway and on sand?

 

[kabbes]

So what do you suggest is a good vehicle for driving off-road in snow, on the motorway and on sand?

For a start, I’d rather have my Yeti than a Range Rover. And fully specced it cost £20k new (albeit 9 years ago now), versus how much for a low-end Range Rover sport?