Is the Range Rover Sport the apex in arsehole wheels ?

[dessiato]

I was recently chatting to a neighbour who has a Discovery which gets the same MPG as my Golf. His is Euro6, mine is Euro5. As much as I don't need a Disco yet, I'm tempted to put it on the option list when the time comes. With advancing age and arthritis starting to creep on, it would be a useful vehicle. But it's a Disco.

 

[gosub]

 

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4 spaces, real class.

 

[DownwardDog]

Flying Spur goes hard in black.

 

[A380]

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Could only be bettered if they were four disabled spaces…

 

[ska invita]

An anthem for the range

 

[High Voltage]

14 seconds, that's all I could listen to . . . is this a new PB for me??

 

[ddraig]

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Appalling! on many "levels"

 

[ska invita]

he's from Isle of Sheppey

 

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Saw one of these Kia's on the motorway earlier. Is it classed as a saloon, an estate or SUV?

 

[Chz]

None. They call it a crossover. Which is really a fusion of all three. The Niro is the same sort of thing, albeit with more estate DNA.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

None. They call it a crossover. Which is really a fusion of all three. The Niro is the same sort of thing, albeit with more estate DNA.

Needs a square back to have some useful carrying space. Seems a waste.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I was recently chatting to a neighbour who has a Discovery which gets the same MPG as my Golf. His is Euro6, mine is Euro5. As much as I don't need a Disco yet, I'm tempted to put it on the option list when the time comes. With advancing age and arthritis starting to creep on, it would be a useful vehicle. But it's a Disco.

I mean I'm always wary when people talk to me about MGP as their driving isn't mine. But I struggle to believe a discovery gets the same as a golf.

Plus your swapping something nice and reliable for something else...

 

[DownwardDog]

But I struggle to believe a discovery gets the same as a golf.

It must be this Golf.



All Discos are shit. Run away.

 

[rubbershoes]

It must be this Golf.

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All Discos are shit. Run away.

If you're doing a lot of off road, a Discovery is fine. Otherwise stick to a Golf

 

[MickiQ]

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That car looks massively out of place on that car park anyway, If I had one of those I would get myself a beat up Corsa for going the supermarket in. Assuming I went myself and didn't send one of the staff.

 

[nick]

That car looks massively out of place on that car park anyway, If I had one of those I would get myself a beat up Corsa for going the supermarket in. Assuming I went myself and didn't send one of the staff.

...but then you would have multiple cars, which wouldn't be very environmentally conscious.

Far better to buy the staff an electric cargo bike for the Waitrose run

 

[dessiato]

...but then you would have multiple cars, which wouldn't be very environmentally conscious.

Far better to buy the staff an electric cargo bike for the Waitrose run

Or get Waitrose to deliver using one of their electric vehicles. That way the staff can busy themselves with their duties, and there’d be one less vehicle on the road.

 

[DownwardDog]

If you're doing a lot of off road, a Discovery is fine. Otherwise stick to a Golf

Not fine.

 

[magneze]

An anthem for the range

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[story]

Is this where we rage about arseholes in SUVs?

Driving away out of London on the M4 on Friday evening, normal levels of busy traffic, everyone doing the commuter ballet, no worries, the fast lane is cruising along together past the slower traffic, no hassles, and some prick in a tall car pushing up close and flashing his headlights. Bullying everyone to pull into the middle lane so he can push past, causing all the other traffic to bunch up. Wanker. Then he crossed over in busy traffic like a fly fisherman in heavy water to join the queue for the Reading slip road.

A couple of people tried to ignore him and hold their position but he got really close to them and flashed his lights more aggressively. Blazing lights going like a strobe at a hight that genuinely dazzles you.

Total arsehole.

 

[story]

Maybe, just maybe, he was trying to get an injured person to a hospital. But I got the strong impression this was habitual behaviour.

 

[dessiato]

Is this where we rage about arseholes in SUVs?

Driving away out of London on the M4 on Friday evening, normal levels of busy traffic, everyone doing the commuter ballet, no worries, the fast lane is cruising along together past the slower traffic, no hassles, and some prick in a tall car pushing up close and flashing his headlights. Bullying everyone to pull into the middle lane so he can push past, causing all the other traffic to bunch up. Wanker. Then he crossed over in busy traffic like a fly fisherman in heavy water to join the queue for the Reading slip road.

A couple of people tried to ignore him and hold their position but he got really close to them and flashed his lights more aggressively. Blazing lights going like a strobe at a hight that genuinely dazzles you.

Total arsehole.

In this situation I usually slow down. Asshole behaviour I know, but I'm not moving.

However, if there's room in the other lanes you should be using them, not lane three.

 

[MickiQ]

Is this where we rage about arseholes in SUVs?

Driving away out of London on the M4 on Friday evening, normal levels of busy traffic, everyone doing the commuter ballet, no worries, the fast lane is cruising along together past the slower traffic, no hassles, and some prick in a tall car pushing up close and flashing his headlights. Bullying everyone to pull into the middle lane so he can push past, causing all the other traffic to bunch up. Wanker. Then he crossed over in busy traffic like a fly fisherman in heavy water to join the queue for the Reading slip road.

A couple of people tried to ignore him and hold their position but he got really close to them and flashed his lights more aggressively. Blazing lights going like a strobe at a hight that genuinely dazzles you.

Total arsehole.

A good few years ago I saw someone come up behind a marked police car and flash them to get out of his way. There was a pause before the Plod turned on his blue lights, probably took them a while to realise that someone really was that dumb.

 

[story]

In this situation I usually slow down. Asshole behaviour I know, but I'm not moving.

However, if there's room in the other lanes you should be using them, not lane three.

Heavy Friday evening commuter traffic innit. Everyone travelling at pretty much the same speed regardless of lane. If all three lanes weren’t being used like this the backlog would last till midnight.

 

[story]

In this situation I usually slow down. Asshole behaviour I know, but I'm not moving.

However, if there's room in the other lanes you should be using them, not lane three.

I slowed down momentarily, he hit is headlights so hard I couldn’t see. Dazzled. Started to shift my mirror but just felt so angry and intimidated and bullied I decided to move over. He did the same thing to the car in front, and the car in front of that.

 

[Silas Loom]

I slowed down momentarily, he hit is headlights so hard I couldn’t see. Dazzled. Started to shift my mirror but just felt so angry and intimidated and bullied I decided to move over. He did the same thing to the car in front, and the car in front of that.

Console yourself with the high chances that he will come to a sticky end, either in or out of his car.

 

[mx wcfc]

This one damned nearly took out a whole hospital

Winchester: Hospital without permanent power until Sunday

The Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester is expected to have to use generators until Sunday.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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This one damned nearly took out a whole hospital

Winchester: Hospital without permanent power until Sunday

The Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester is expected to have to use generators until Sunday.

www.bbc.co.uk

They are certainly not very good at parking.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

tbf the driver probably thought it was a disabled spot.

But if you have a power unit that is critical to the functioning of the hospital and you locate it next to a car park, perhaps some kind of crash-barrier might be a good idea?