Is the Range Rover Sport the apex in arsehole wheels ?

[kebabking]

So does the 50 litres your car uses. If you really cared, you'd get the train.

Christ no - trains are full of people like you.

 

[dessiato]

Here turbo diesel cars make a lot of sense because diesel is so much cheaper than petrol, but they're still more expensive to buy.

 

[Chilli.s]

Turbo diesel was found to be the most economic type of engine in studies. Just a pity about all those harmful particulates

 

[DownwardDog]

Oh absolutely - modern diesels produce fantastic driving performance and efficiency that few petrols will touch, but they cost more to buy, cost more to fuel, are more complex, and the hated DPF means that if they aren't used as diesels should be - long, fast driving - they'll cost thousands to repair.

They work for me because while I do the school run few times a week, I also do 45 and 85 mile each way commutes on the motorway and fast A roads several times a week, but if you don't do that kind of driving, then a post 2010(?) Diesel isn't for you.

There's a definite balance to be struck - I think it used to be 15k a year, but I'd say that figure has gone up, it's not just about the figure but the nature of the miles - a multi-drop driver might well do 30k+, but if they stop and start every mile then they'll probably wreck a diesel in no time.

I miss the oil burning monsters of the noughties (peak diesel). I had a 2006 E65 745d with a 325hp twin turbo 4.4 diesel V8 and a six speed ZF auto. It was a fantastic car. I once drove it from Frankfurt to Berlin (northern route via Wolfsburg) in 3h 19m without a fuel stop.

It was super complex though and I'd have no interest in owning a 16 year old example.

 

[Dogsauce]

I think we do about 2000 a year in our diesel.

We paid a bit more to get one that was emissions compliant, then found out that the council’s plans here in Bristol are to ban diesels altogether from certain roads rather than just blocking the more polluting versions. Pile of arse.

 

[kebabking]

If I get round to replacing mine this year I'll get one of the last 2020(?) Mazda 6 diesels, but if not I've no idea what I'll do.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Just done 3k in 7 days in my derv. 790 miles on the bahns on the last day to catch the ferry. It’s a Skoda- imagine trying to do that in a 3 year old JLR product . Urgh

 

[not-bono-ever]

Anyway, proper wealthy toffs have old battered Volvos. They don’t spunk their Ill gotten gains on shoddy RR shite

 

[Dogsauce]

If I get round to replacing mine this year I'll get one of the last 2020(?) Mazda 6 diesels, but if not I've no idea what I'll do.

Good old fashioned estate cars are becoming a scarce thing, and the chunky 4x4 replacements don’t have anything like the space in the rear. I miss our old battered Avensis and the ability to fit a stack of plasterboard or a dismantled wardrobe in the back.

 

[Dogsauce]

Btw, all the liberal elite of childbearing age around here seem to have day vans alongside whatever runabout they maintain. Extra points for extensive bike racks on the rear.

 

[kebabking]

Dogsauce yeah, that sounds familiar....

Mrs Bot has one of these crossover things, and while it's reasonably pleasant to drive/be in, it's boot is pitiful. Fuel economy is crap as well.

 

[hash tag]

LOOK. AT. ME. ( Check those wheels. An every day production car). This was outside the hotel we were staying at.

Spoiler: Care

 

[dessiato]

The wheels are the least offensive part of that. Even so, they need a refurb

 

[DownwardDog]

The wheels are the least offensive part of that.

They've been curbed to fuck; that's pretty offensive.

Urus has been a great success for Lambo. It's just overtaken the Gallardo to become the best selling Lamborghini ever.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

They've been curbed to fuck; that's pretty offensive.

Urus has been a great success for Lambo. It's just overtaken the Gallardo to become the best selling Lamborghini ever.

If I had £1/4m and was in the market for an SUV, I'd be right in there. Maybe a more subtle paintjob though.

 

[T & P]

Is that number reg plate legal? I thought they had to to be rectangular or squre in shape, without any funny angles in the corners like that one has.

 

[hash tag]

It might not be legal because the spacing is not correct and I doubt the manufacturers details are on it.

 

[Spymaster]

Most petrol cars have a turbo....

Or two

 

[kabbes]

It reminds me that Lamborghini got their start making tractors

 

[kebabking]

It reminds me that Lamborghini got their start making tractors

As seen with Clarkson on his farm.

 

[hash tag]

It reminds me that Lamborghini got their start making tractors

This type of porn does not really belong here

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It reminds me that Lamborghini got their start making tractors

Legend has it the owner was pissed off that his Ferrari was so unreliable that he set out to make an even more unreliable car.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Is that number reg plate legal? I thought they had to to be rectangular or squre in shape, without any funny angles in the corners like that one has.

Pretty much every single after market plate you see is illegal. I know a traffic cop, they use them as an excuse to pull over vehicles they have suspicions about. More often than not they then find more serious offences to pick them up with.

 

[platinumsage]

The worst thing about that car is the bad parking.

 

[ska invita]

Range rovers are worse

 

[dessiato]

I think I’ll buy a RR to go with my Barbour, and red trousers. I’ll need some Hunters of course. Just to irritate some board members. I’ll have to get a fuck off sized tow bar to pull a boat out of the water, and join the Royal Yacht Club.

 

[DownwardDog]

Pretty much every single after market plate you see is illegal. I know a traffic cop, they use them as an excuse to pull over vehicles they have suspicions about. More often than not they then find more serious offences to pick them up with.

Most cops are as thick as fuck and don't actually know the rules. It's legal to use a smaller number plate (64mm characters) on a motorbike but cops don't know this so people are riding around with print outs of the regs in their jackets.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Pretty much every single after market plate you see is illegal. I know a traffic cop, they use them as an excuse to pull over vehicles they have suspicions about. More often than not they then find more serious offences to pick them up with.

Which goes to show how thick some folk really are. Back in the 90's a mate got in to some fairly serious villainy to do with hijacked loads of mobile phones, he didn't like wearing seatbelts, thought it was rebellious to not do so. I told him that when he gets pulled for the seatbelt and they find some swag or cash he'll feel a right cunt sat in a cell for 10 years over a sodding seatbelt, and while you're at it make sure that car is tip-top legit. He took that on board, bought a bland car that was 100% legal. He never got nicked and used the ill-gotten gains to start a legitimate business which flourishes to this day.

 

[T & P]

Which goes to show how thick some folk really are. Back in the 90's a mate got in to some fairly serious villainy to do with hijacked loads of mobile phones, he didn't like wearing seatbelts, thought it was rebellious to not do so. I told him that when he gets pulled for the seatbelt and they find some swag or cash he'll feel a right cunt sat in a cell for 10 years over a sodding seatbelt, and while you're at it make sure that car is tip-top legit. He took that on board, bought a bland car that was 100% legal. He never got nicked and used the ill-gotten gains to start a legitimate business which flourishes to this day.

The flip side of that tale is one told by someone at work, who claimed one of his friends had been a drug dealer for a number of years, and was becoming increasingly successful. And one day he decided to splash out some of his earnings on a Lambo. Whilst still living in his council estate flat. According to my work colleague, it wasn't too long before the Old Bill came knocking, unsurprisingly enough...

 

[pbsmooth]

Which goes to show how thick some folk really are. Back in the 90's a mate got in to some fairly serious villainy to do with hijacked loads of mobile phones, he didn't like wearing seatbelts, thought it was rebellious to not do so. I told him that when he gets pulled for the seatbelt and they find some swag or cash he'll feel a right cunt sat in a cell for 10 years over a sodding seatbelt, and while you're at it make sure that car is tip-top legit. He took that on board, bought a bland car that was 100% legal. He never got nicked and used the ill-gotten gains to start a legitimate business which flourishes to this day.

the man in the story? Bill Gates.