If you own a ranger rover

My daily run around farm car is a Skoda Fabia and its the most awful, unreliable car i've ever owned, and i've had about 40 cars 😅

The old 'Rover' V8 petrol engines originated from an American design and fuel economy was never really considered at the time. Building things badly or inconsistently you can thank trades unions/British management also at that time.

Lonelycrab · 13/05/2024 20:54
Well I guess one advantage of owning a RR is that they also have their own, personal motorway speed limit of 90mph as opposed to us plebs limited to 70
Wrong, many cars can be driven fast and inconsiderately.
There are several makes of car 'sans permis' (can be driven without licence) in France that are speed limited to 60km/h or less but even driven at 50km/h (30mph) in the middle of the road they are a menace, thus inciting accidents as even many tractors are faster.

I cut my family's legs off as soon as I got my micra. Phew!

Or the 6ft 4 husband

Totally agree, I'd be mortified if I had to drive one.

Yeah, hilarious that the poster whose kids have legs can't possibly use any other car than a fuck off massive tank to ferry the darlings around in.

Oh lol @Heatherbell1978 - you just sparked a memory for me and now it makes sense in light of this thread.

A few years ago my handbrake failed on my RR Sport in our driveway (sadly not the only time!) and I hadn’t yet learned about Limp mode for getting it to the LR garage down the road myself. I had to get them to come to recover it with the towtruck (broke the motor on the winch but that’s another story). Anyway a few days later I was chatting with one of the neighbours and he said “we all thought it was being repossessed”! I couldn’t understand why the neighbours would jump to that conclusion but it makes sense now as people here are saying a lot of them are on finance! The cheeky bugger 🤣

[As a boring footnote: The next time the handbrake failed, the same towtruck guy came and said “I remember you, I got in big trouble for breaking the winch last time, that was my first week working there”. In the interim, he had learned about Limp mode so he didn’t have to winch the whole weight of the car, so I got him to show me how to do it myself in case it ever seizes up on a roundabout or something. Touch wood, hasn’t happened yet but only a matter of time!]

^ which is also the size of a small house.

Brilliant for the ego of those inside, but pedestrians, cyclists or just people driving normal cars trying to find a parking spot they can fit into, no so much.

TBQH the default SUV in monied areas around London seems to be a Volvo CX90. RR aren’t really that popular.

To all the people hating on RR. I bet if someone said they’d buy one for you, you would take it. I’ve owned a top of the range Kia and it was a very nice, solid car. Nowhere near a comparison to my top of the range, RR Autobiography (bought second hand). So many people hate RR because of the green eyed monster, seem more than happy for people to truck around in people carriers or a similarly built car as long as it didn’t come from JLR. My family need bigger cars as my husband is 6ft4 and doesn’t fit in the small cars safely and we have 2 children who need to have somewhere to put their legs in the back seat. SUV is a must and our SUV of choice is a RR

I'm confused - are RRs the only car available that have somewhere for 2 children to put their legs? And we were given one as a courtesy car recently from my work; we didn't have a choice as it was delivered to the door and I spent a week absolutely mortified that it was in our driveway and couldn't bring myself to drive it. It's funny that you assume people are jealous; I felt the opposite about it and was embarrassed to drive it.
For the record we have a Skoda EV so not really the target market. But pleased to confirm it has somewhere for the kids legs.

What I can't get my head around are parents taking out high finance on cute, brand new cars for their seventeen year olds. Like DDs friend who woke up to a new baby blue Mini on her 17th birthday when her parents were already financially struggling. This really is madness to me. Our DCs learned to drive in a nine year old VW that we bought for cash.
Or worse when they buy the 17 year old a powerful car. Usually ends tragically.

No. Id never ever ever want one thank you. I'd sell it so quick and buy a skoda fabia...a better car and easier to park. I want a reliable car I can park.

Yes I agree it's an evil temptation for some people that just paves the way for more financial nonsense. I'll never understand seeing very high end SUVs parked outside very, very modest houses. It's such a feckless way to use whatever money you have available to you.

Had the Evoke as a courtesy car I'm 5'4 and I still banged my head getting in and out of it. Didn't like it at all

I'll stick to my outdated Freelander thank you

You're not awful people but by God that is so so cringeworthy.

What does hating 'on' RR mean? Surely it's just hating RR?

You really don't get it do you? I loathe RRs and you couldn't give me one no, do you really not see that? I drive a fairly expensive car so it's got bugger all to do with money and everything to do with taste.

They are currently the most stolen car in the country, which would massively put me off.
Generally I tend to assume that MOST cars under the age of about 3 years are financed.

Yep. 100% agree.

Car finance is a great tool when you either desperately need it to just get you mobile, or when really don't need it at all but have much better ways to put your copious assets to use.

It's a terrible tool for those who just 'want'...

FIL owns his, I borrowed it for a weekend and although they may not be the most environmentally friendly way of getting around and take up a lot of space it was so comfortable and nice to drive, compared to my 10 year old hatch back.

Oh god, yes! I bloody love those Pandas!

@Soigneur

SUVs are inferior in every way to a nice sporty estate

You mean a STATION WAGON?

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I would think that actually makes quite a bit of difference in normal sized parking spaces.

We're not being offered a free landy unfortunately

If I was offered the choice of free range or free 90s Panda 4x4 I'd choose the panda

A lot of RR drivers have long since paid of their mortgage. I'm sure there are those who go out on a crazy limb to buy one and cripple them self with finance payments and stuff, but you get idiots driving all sorts of cars. But there are those who drive a Range Rover because they just really like them and the cost of them isn't a consideration because you can comfortably afford one.

What I can't get my head around are parents taking out high finance on cute, brand new cars for their seventeen year olds. Like DDs friend who woke up to a new baby blue Mini on her 17th birthday when her parents were already financially struggling. This really is madness to me. Our DCs learned to drive in a nine year old VW that we bought for cash.

Better off getting the battered P-reg maroon one for that, that way you've still got £48k to spend on something else (it would pay down a substantial chunk of my mortgage for one thing).

Like this: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jWIXBClS3Os/maxresdefault.jpg

Strip it and take it green laning