Is the Range Rover Sport the apex in arsehole wheels ?

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They are getting bigger and increasingly dangerous to pedestrians.

SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report

Bigger cars more likely to kill people, release more toxic gas and are outgrowing design of cities

www.theguardian.com

"Crash data from Belgium from 2017 to 2021 shows that a 10cm increase in the height of vehicle fronts raises the risk of death by 30% when a car hits a pedestrian or cyclist, according to a study by the Vias Institute, previously the Belgian Institute for Road Safety."

 

[ska invita]

haha

Our Range Rovers are not UK's most-stolen car, says Jaguar Land Rover

The boss of Jaguar Land Rover hits out at what he says is inaccurate reporting about the Range Rover.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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haha

Our Range Rovers are not UK's most-stolen car, says Jaguar Land Rover

The boss of Jaguar Land Rover hits out at what he says is inaccurate reporting about the Range Rover.

www.bbc.co.uk

Am I bothered?

 

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They have launched their own insurance company to accommodate Land Rover owners who can't get insurance elsewhere.

I'm surprised they haven't launched their own breakdown recovery service yet. That'd be in even more demand.

 

[Leafster]

They have launched their own insurance company to accommodate Land Rover owners who can't get insurance elsewhere.

I'm surprised they haven't launched their own breakdown recovery service yet. That'd be in even more demand.

I was stuck in a very slow moving traffic jam this morning. When I eventually got to the front of it, there was a Range Rover broken down partially blocking the road.

 

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haha

Our Range Rovers are not UK's most-stolen car, says Jaguar Land Rover

The boss of Jaguar Land Rover hits out at what he says is inaccurate reporting about the Range Rover.

www.bbc.co.uk

“Insurance companies are slow to respond to data and don’t use all the data”, the man says.

Fuckin’ lol, is all I can say to that. Motor insurance is an arms race of how to best make use of as many billion data points as you can gather. The sophistication of its ability to respond to daily data is mind-blowing. But this car manufacturer man thinks he knows better. Maybe he could explain where authors like these are going wrong

Vehicle insurance claims size prediction needs methods to efficiently handle these claims. Machine learning (ML) is one of the methods that solve this problem. Tree-based ensemble learning algorithms are highly effective and widely used ML methods. This study considers how vehicle insurance providers incorporate ML methods in their companies and explores how the models can be applied to insurance big data. We utilize various tree-based ML methods, such as bagging, random forest and gradient boosting, to determine the relative importance of predictors in predicting claims size and to explore the relationships between claims size and predictors. Furthermore, we evaluate and compare these models’ performances. The results show that tree-based ensemble methods are better than the classical least square method.

 

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Don't you just feel the love?

I got my first Land Rover at the age of 45 – it’s just as marvellous as I hoped

My childhood dream is now a reality and the Discovery Sport works perfectly for our family of five

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Spymaster]

Don't you just feel the love?

I got my first Land Rover at the age of 45 – it’s just as marvellous as I hoped

My childhood dream is now a reality and the Discovery Sport works perfectly for our family of five

www.telegraph.co.uk

Fucking hell. Her childhood dream was to own a Range Rover

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Fucking hell. Her childhood dream was to own a Range Rover

Not even a Range Rover, it’s a Disco Sport. Somewhere on this thread owners of these things were described as wanting to be the sort of cunt that drives a RR Sport, but can’t afford it.

 

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A range rover being stolen is no laughing matter

Range Rover given back after £14k insurance quote is stolen one day later

A day after Mark Perring, aged 52, returned his Range Rover, the vehicle was stolen.

www.express.co.uk

 

[Spymaster]

A range rover being stolen is no laughing matter

Range Rover given back after £14k insurance quote is stolen one day later

A day after Mark Perring, aged 52, returned his Range Rover, the vehicle was stolen.

www.express.co.uk

I just got an insurance quote for one.

£7887.16

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

he received exorbitant insurance quotes for his four by four, as Jaguar Land Rover's own insurance was not an option for him.

What convictions bar him then

 

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I just got an insurance quote for one.

£7887.16

Can you get a loan to pay the premiums

 

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Does anyone know what is the cheapest spec new range rover is...I might follow spys lead and try and get a quote

 

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I forget (without scrolling back) if this thread also encompasses those big pickup trucks? (ETA - yes. Yes it is )

These are the ones that people often get because: Tax Breaks

Good news. Last week HMRC were going to remove some of the tax breaks
Bad new: this week they have backed down

They say that a week is a long time in politics; the same is sometimes true in tax! HMRC’s plan to change the classification of double cab pick-ups for employment benefit and Capital Allowance purposes back-fired over the weekend, due to pressure from industry lobby groups. This led to a reversal in policy (a U-turn!). The result is that double cab pick-ups remain vans and are not cars.

Exciting Tax website

 

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Does anyone know what is the cheapest spec new range rover is...I might follow spys lead and try and get a quote

RR Sport, cheapest £83.620, regular Range Rover £103,720

 

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To get a quote, I searched pics on line and got the reg OV 70 VTK not even a new one, value just under £50,000.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

To get a quote, I searched pics on line and got the reg OV 70 VTK not even a new one, value just under £50,000.
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???

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Just gone through with the AA on a £46k model number plate from Autotrader.

No convictions, licence since 1989, just me, walk to work, low risk occupation, car to be garaged at night in Godalming and still can't offer a quote.

Maybe cos they knew I was lying when I answered NO to this:

 

[DownwardDog]

I am glad I never buy any car insurance. It sounds like a right arse on.

 

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Just tried again.

 

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Nb. I have a full, clean licence, full NCB and no points or convictions.
Just how do my neighbours insure these things? By using their parents address in the sticks perhaps.

 

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Insurance. A colleague at work has a ford SUV. She had an accident in November and after several false starts, she was expecting to collect it repaired from main ford dealer today. She went to collect car today and still not sorted, she found another problem with it. In the meantime, someone is paying for a hire car for her.

 

[likesfish]

several of my regualrs have untaxed range rovers all been reported to the DVLA possibly won't do anything but might. you can get a great HP deal on a flash motor but the insurance will kill you.

 

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several of my regualrs have untaxed range rovers all been reported to the DVLA possibly won't do anything but might. you can get a great HP deal on a flash motor but the insurance will kill you.

youre doing gods work - all power

 

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Riding home from work the other evening and as I am crossing a mini roundabout a car zooms up from the side road at my left and nearly doesn't stop. When I raise my eyebrows at him as I had to emergency stop in the middle of the roundabout he toots his horn at me and revs his engine. Guess what he was driving?

 

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Don't get a range rover for around town. This is what's needed .https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-spottedykywt/bonkers-smart-fortwo-jeepster-for-sale/48285

 

[Dogsauce]

That looks like something from a Japanese kid’s programme. Kind of cute.

 

[keybored]

Don't they count as a commercial vehicle, so there's some nice tax relief?

Yep. Hence the rise of models that have luxury leather and soft fabric interiors, rather than utilitarian wipe clean surfaces.

You don’t pay tax on the costs of buying and owning it and what money your company spends on it doesn’t count towards the annual corporation tax bill.

Not for long, lmao

Double cab pick-ups to be classed as company cars from July 1

HMRC has issued new tax guidance which will result in double-cab pickups being classified as company cars from July 1.

www.fleetnews.co.uk

Shame it's not gonna be applied retrospectively.