If you own a ranger rover

Insurance near me is about £10K PA and the only people who have them who own them outright are the ones with v. Old ones that are used in off roading aka farmers using the car for their actual purpose - not silly school run mums whose husband cannot satisfy them.

Why piss so much money down the drain on a car (because 80K is nothing when your car costs that bloody much) that constantly breaks down, is to big for the roads and when it’s not breaking down or you’re not driving down the wrong side of the road, is being stolen because it’s a cheap piece of shit that a two year old could hot wire.

Our neighbours opposite had three, so I decided they must be drug dealers. DH said I was being a bitch.

Six months later they were raided and the man of the house is now on remand for drug dealing. The RRs are gone and Mrs Dealer now has a VW.

They’ll be ‘proper’ Land Rovers and Range Rovers - not the Evoque etc which is just an imitation with all the unreliability of the real thing.

It spend most of its time in the garage being repaired. Can't imagine why anyone's dream car. My worse nightmare. Each to their own. It be finance mostly.

Range Rovers just aren’t appropriate in large cities. And those who buy them seem to neither be good at driving them nor considerate (massive generalisation and of course there are exceptions).

And then the owners get upset when they need to squeeze into the driver’s seat in car parks (because they don’t really fit!).

They are lovely cars in the right setting, though.

That’s definitely not a good reason to buy one of the most unreliable cars ever made 😅
They’re absolutely terrible to own sadly

Same here. Porsche, Bentleys, all parked mainly at the drop off points, right outside our local big M&S/Tesco.
It’s so brazen, they just don’t care.

It’s a lovely car. I love them but the 5 friends I have with newer ones have all spent as much time at the garage as they have enjoying it. That and the high levels of theft have put me off a bit. I don’t have enough time to make the mechanics a 2nd home 🤣

Ignore the horror stories… I drive one and love it.

I put down a big deposit and bridged the gap with a loan. £220 a month, will own outright in a few years.

We loved ours! It was the most comfortable car ever for long journeys, we've never had anything as perfect for us for the long trips. Never broke down or had any issues, saved us in a few tricky to navigate winter scenarios and could fit an absolute village in the boot which was fab. Would like to go back to having one again at some point, the 90s are a contender though I love the look.

We financed it - the APR on the finance was lower than the interest rate on our savings, it makes no sense to pay in full in that scenario. We always finance cars!

I had a Land Rover which spent most of its time broken or waiting to be repaired. Normal garages wouldn’t touch it so it had to go to a specialist every time which never ever cost less than £1k hence why I no longer own it.

Despite that I loved it so much, hate driving the one I have now compared to that.

I have an older Sport Autobiography, bought outright. When it's not broken (which is often and almost always an issue with the electrics) it drives and tows horse trailer beautifully.

I drive a Discovery. Owned outright. I need 7 seats. Normal insurance costs for the size of the car. I'm not an arsehole ✌🏻

I hope you don't live in an urban area op

There’s occasionally a stolen one in the communal car park of my block of flats so I can let you know when the next one arrives OP. They’re usually there for a month or so then the registration number miraculously changes and they have a new MOT without going anywhere near a test centre. Bloody clever cars.

But one of my relatives is a mechanic and used to work for Range Rover. He said the cars are amongst the most unreliable he’s ever worked on the RR customer service is appalling.

I live in a very rural area and there are loads of them around me.

These silly farmers trying to feed and manage the country. What are they thinking of.....

I bought my RR Sport second hand in cash (about 3 years old). It was really nice to drive and I miss all the little things now I have a BMW (one touch power boot, side cameras, self closing doors if you leave them ajar, very comfortable seats, quick acceleration, brilliant in the snow, the wade sensor less useful...) but...

They break constantly. Mine spent three months in the garage each year for two of the years (over multiple visits). As a result you have to buy the £100 plus a month warranty. Everyone else's RRs also break constantly so it's rare to get it seen in less than 6 weeks.

Many of the RR garages have appalling customer service. They won't return calls and they try to charge you the £600-800 diagnostic fee even if they find a warranty covered fault (the warranty people are great and tell you they'll cover it but you have to argue with the garage for ages).

I recently sold mine but I spent so long sitting in the garage that I was tempted to speak to the people in the shiny showroom and tell them not to do it. It will be the nicest car I ever own but never again.

I've had two now, the first I unfortunately crashed and it was written off. I then had a different SUV for a while before buying my current one, a Range Rover Sport. It's not quite the same as my original full size Range Rover but it's gorgeous to look at and not quite as bad on fuel. However, the insurance is astronomical, with several providers refusing to give a quote at all, I live in an area with cheap insurance and very low crime.

We just bought one, cash. Must let DH know that despite being sensible drivers in our other cars, we are automatic wankers the second we get in the Range Rover.

It’s a very comfortable car, and it would have to try very hard to be more unreliable than either the Mercedes or the Jaguar we had, both of which needed sending back to the dealers within days of buying them and then proceeded to break down at every opportunity.

Even if they're on finance, they're still ridiculously priced. I used to work in finance and sold a few range rovers (real ones not evoque etc) and they were £1k a month plus VAT back then. Pre covid. I dread to think what they are now but I know my company car, (about the same cost as an evoqué maybe 5k less) is now £7/800 a month with a £5k deposit.

That's a mortgage or a short all inclusive holiday per month.

Wow have you really been paying off your car for a decade? Makes sense but a bit bleak

With dogs! Not sure gods what use gods would be!!

They get nicked round by where I live so I wouldn't have one for that reason. Plus locally the women who drive them are labelled 'Gangsters Wives' so that also puts me off!!

If I lived on a farm with gods then maybe I'd get an old one but not living in a town.

lol lol lol thanks

God this. Last time I was at my garage, I arrived to see the mechanics pushing a Range Rover in off the road.

When I came back to collect my car, the receptionist was giving the bad news to the owner. The bill for the day was £1500, but the full estimate to repair the car was £4k to £8k depending on what exactly was wrong (I'm assuming major engine problems). The discussion included the fact that the car was on finance, so they had little choice except to pay for repairs.

I heaved a sigh of relief that I drive a tiny car that costs a fraction to buy, run and repair and still achieves the basic aim of getting me from A to B.