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Funnily enough, there was a car on the forecourt with a Russian flag on its rear number plate.
Is the Range Rover Sport the apex in arsehole wheels ?
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SpookyFrank
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Note two gearsticks. One is for the locking differential. I think it also switches between hi and low gear ratios.
Puddy_Tat
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weird
dunno - think i've seen a second lever in older land rovers, never really given much thought to what it's there for
some coaches used to have a two speed rear axle, with a switch on or next to the gear lever. i've never had to drive one, so not quite sure how it works
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Niva has no centre diff so it's always 'locked'. The second lever is for normal and low range.
They are complete fucking garbage and get zero out of four stars in the RUSSIAN safety rating system. They are particularly prone to killing passengers with head trauma in relatively low speed accidents.
There's a guy in my suburb who is obsessed with them and restores them. I've done some welding and fabrication for him so I'm pretty familiar with them. Just, no.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
About 25 years ago my dad had a press car Niva convertible for a week. It was the shitest new cat I have ever driven. To make it a soft top they had just taken the roof off with an angle grinder. The hood was held on with press studs, the best bit was the boot was intact but they had just cut off the rear door leaving a nine inch high door so you couldn’t put anything wider than nine inches in the boot. It also had that great Lada understeer.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Ex-mil friend of mine owned one. He took me on an off-road session to show it off, and I did have to admit that it was pretty damned capable at handing a muddy field full of ruts and furrows. I think on a basic mechanical level, they're sound. Most Russian stuff is, or st least easily serviced by the illiterate. It's when I wanted to turn something on (I forget what) that the assembly quality came into play. Instead of the button depressing, it just popped in and completely vanished inside the dashboard. Took 20 minutes to find it.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Ferrari Purosange is here.
NA 6.5L V12 is a bold choice that sets it apart, and possibly above, the Urus. I'd get an RR Cullinan if it were my money but this thing is going to be a money making machine for Ferrari.
NA 6.5L V12 is a bold choice that sets it apart, and possibly above, the Urus. I'd get an RR Cullinan if it were my money but this thing is going to be a money making machine for Ferrari.
beesonthewhatnow
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I should hate that. Have to say though, it looks rather lovely. They’ve basically made a large and comfy GT, not an SUV.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
It still has the dreaded PTU from the FF/GTC Lusso. This is a seperate 2 speed transmisson for the front wheels that goes very expensively wrong... a lot...
beesonthewhatnow
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Oh I imagine it will be as reliable as a chocolate kettle. It’s still quite a beautiful object though, the rear 3/4 view in particular is fabulous.
Bahnhof Strasse
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If was in the market for such a thing would still go Urus, a Lambo you can live with. The Ferrari looks too small, just a jacked up version of their regular cars, not a daily driver and not enough 'fuck you peasant' to be a full on SUV.
beesonthewhatnow
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The Lambo Anus looks like it was styled by an 8 year old child. That Ferrari works precisely because they haven’t gone down the dreadful SUV styling route.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Oooh, seeing it here, nice...
Leafster
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I still think Rolls Royce when I see RR written down rather than Range Rover.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Just when you thought they couldn’t make the Ranger Rover any uglier, the 2022 model arrives…
Not only hideous, but something about the rear lights makes it look like a Ford! Ugly, and cheap-looking to boot
I think it looks better than previous RRs, but that's not a high bar.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
It looks good but will be disasterously unreliable. The real significance is that it has a BMW engine and JLR (like Aston Martin) have basically given up in the powertrain business.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
You have to be a massive twat to even drive one of those through the desert in Dubai, to take one into central London is a whole new level of cunt
UnderOpenSky
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DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
77 plate = Moscow. Enough said...
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Did someone really do that by design or more likely, someone was offended by the wheels and threw paint at it.
Leafster
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Yeah, I think it's an odd paid job. The letters for 'Range Rover' have been moved so it says 'Ran Over' which would be consistent with the paint theme.
Spymaster
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