to think that a giant Range Rover with 'Overfinch' emblazoned on the back is the definition of 'twatmobile'

[Poulay]

Was cycling down the road earlier, saw one of these things go by

I know lots of people say they need Range Rovers to cope with the pot holes, or the snow, or the pedestrians, or whatever things.

But let's be honest, they are big hulking lumps of metal that would tip over if you drove them too fast.

And on that basis paying £90k for a souped up one

www.overfinch.com/buying-an-overfinch/view-current-stock/

and then a further £5k or so for a personalised number plate just makes you look stupid.

Doesn't it?

(Just want to add I have nothing against fast cars, if you're going to get an Aston Martin or whatever, fine.....

But souping up a vehicle supposedly designed to drive up unmade roads. I mean why????)

You need to take your children to school in a Range Rover to protect them from all the other fuckers with Range Rovers.

It's a vicious circle.

poulay, I am liking your humour.

narmada

it's only 4 stars even for adult occupants. Volvo XC90 looks better for safety for those inside and outside the car (although still not good enough for pedestrians).

I saw one of these yesterday and was wondering what Overfinch was!

I don't know what Overfinch means, but I believe Porsche is an anagram of "very small penis".

I would love a normal Land Rover for pulling a horse trailer. No need for a souped up one for that. At the moment I need to hire a horsebox and driver if I want to go anywhere. My lottery win vehicle of choice too.

Defenders are lovely. Range Rovers are not.

My DH has a Range Rover. Luckily for them no-one has yet approached him to demand that he justifies the vehicle he bought using his own hard-earned cash.

Don't think they will, but will still be judging him like crazy.

YANBU. If you don't live on a farm they're a show-off-mobile.

I saw a White overfinch range rover with the reg plate P4Y UP. That tells you all you need to know about the type of people that drive them!

Poulay, DH is far too easy-going. It isn't him they have to fear.

Although I don't like Range Rovers (or Landies) it has to be said. In fact I think I prefer the Landie he had until fairly recently to the current beastie. I drive non-British sports cars, I'm not into the whole chunky 4x4 thing.

All this "unless you live on a farm they're a show-off mobile" is balls though - at least for DH and for several others I know. He fishes, does the serious stuff, salmon etc, up in the Highlands, where he takes his 85yo father to areas which are unreachable to the old fella on foot. We live in a rural area at the bottom of a long hill with a silly gradient. There have been times when he weather's been so bad that he wouldn't have been able to get to work without the 4x4 (and he's the boss so would be leaving a lot of other people buggered too).

If you wanted to question this family you'd find that if anything I'm the one who doesn't need the style of cars I own and drive. I could do what I need to in a Ford Focus. Admittedly I'd rather eat my own socks but I could.

I always find the "I go fishing/golfing/camping" thing funny. French farmers manage to tootle about their fields in Citroens perfectly happily but we need 4x4 vehicles to go fishing. IMO people who really need 4x4 vehicles drive Landcruisers or Defenders, not Range Rovers.

I don't object to people buying what they want with their money. I do object to people,

1. Polluting my planet, yes it is mine!
2. Endangering my child with their enormous, child-killing monsters
3. Not knowing how to fucking park and using two spaces
4. Cutting down my visibility on the roads
5. Tail-gating so that when they can't stop (because having a 4x4 doesn't magically make stopping distances shorter) they will run over my car and kill everyone inside
6. Acting like their children are more important than mine (because that is what it means when you drive a vehicle which is much more dangerous to pedestrians and you think it is safer for your passengers)

You do realise that if everyone drove littler cars, the world actually would be a better place. Although it would be a much better place if we all cycled instead and I'm not doing that.

Some of what you describe up there, MrsTP, is bad driving practice and nothing to do with any particular make or model. Some of the rest could apply to mine, which are a far cry from a 4x4. For example, a sports car can kill a child just as easily for a start and two of mine are classic cars and therefore responsible for pollution, being designed almost before the invention of the ozone layer, never mind the catalytic convertor!!

Best you dust that bike off.

Bugger off GrahamTribe, you can't make me ride a bike, you can't!

They are so huge. SO INSANELY HUGE. I had a minor incident with one today. I was waiting to turn right onto a main road and this monstrosity was turning into the road I was on. It was too big to get past me. (nowt wrong with my positioning BTW) And he huffed and tutted like it was MY fault, in my Fiat Punto.

Mwahaha!

Yes, but why? Unless you live in the outback.

Apart from fishing in the absolute middle of knowhere with an 85 yo who's not too good on his feet (although a dab hand with a rod still), MrsTP? How about those friends of mine who are showmen. You try towing a jeuvenile ride for miles then getting it onto and off a muddy feild in a Ford Fiesta!

Ah hell, I can spell field, honestly, I just can't type!

That comment was for the 4x4 saloon, GrahamTribe. I still maintain that if the French farmers, <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.ca/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=709&tbm=isch&tbnid=e7XhGvI1H592BM:&imgrefurl=blog.marquis-wines.com/&docid=8VH_V3SDdn0N-M&imgurl=blog.marquis-wines.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMG_0671.jpg&w=1600&h=1200&ei=TKLHT7K8JeGQ2gWt_JD6Cg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=445&sig=114943231377014914740&page=2&tbnh=160&tbnw=213&start=15&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:17,s:15,i:140&tx=120&ty=89" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">like this guy can get around their farms with an old 2CV, your DH could probably fish with one. Also, what is wrong with a Defender? Unless you are taking 8 people fishing.

Although, I would just like to say, "you can't even SPELL field" in a sarcastic tone of voice

Comfort, MrsTP. The boy's getting on a bit himself! The Range Rover is also DH's business vehicle and he occasionally drives customers in it when they come to his offices so it has to be appropriate there too.

That French farmer's got it easy! Not for him the Scottish weather! This is the sort of thing my madman DH gets up to.

But, all joking aside, as I said, I don't like 4x4s particularly. I still feel the need to defend them and their owners though, just as I do when I read the "people shouldn't have pets unless they live in the country" and "people shouldn't have dogs unless they need them for working purposes". It all gets my back up - sure, some people should be trusted with neither a matchbox car nor a pet gnat but it's really not on to suggest that nobody should be allowed these things. Sometimes it smacks of jealousy, sometimes of dog in a manger syndrome. And that bugs me.

And hell, if first they come for the Range Rovers, how long will it be before they come for the sports cars and their drivers?