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To think that 90% of Range Rover owners

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Dinosauratemypudding · 01/10/2016 18:43

Don't need such a big fucking car and should buy something else amd stop taking up most of the fucking road.

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Philoslothy · 02/10/2016 20:51

It's rr inparticular as they're too flashy to be useful

I posted a reply but lost it. So apologies if I have said this already.

What on earth does too flashy to be useful mean?

We don't need a Range Rover although with our family and lifestyle we need at least one big car.

But it is nonsense to say it is useless. It gets us from A to B. It can pull a caravan if horsebox. It manages off road and some of the lanes that pass for roads around here. It fits a few dogs in the back. It comfortably holds a few children in the back, it is comfortable for long drives. The back is handy for picnics. It holds loads in the boot.

We have a car that I think has a bigger footprint that a RR- have never seen a thread posted about it. Surprising as people seem to have a problem with the size of it.

MrsBGharai · 02/10/2016 20:56

Absolutely!
I was one of those arsehole types. Not vaguely overweight or the nonsensical stereotypes, but I drove one.
Realised it made me an arsehole, and got a Q7 instead.
Are you happy now? Biscuit

Blu · 02/10/2016 21:01

I learned to drive in a tractor.
The best car I had for snow was a Fiat Punto. It did really well.
But I have never had a big 4x4: I am not comparing my Punto against a 4WD.

Every year we stay in a cottage in a Northern upland region which is half a mile up a really rough steep unmade track. A couple came with an EA to view one of the cottages and we heard them saying that they wouldn't buy it as they would have to get a 4x4 to move there. the Dry Stone Waller who lived there month in, month out, eyed his Clio with amusement.

ohdearme1958 · 02/10/2016 21:13

The vogue is gorgeous. Next car will be one

You wont be disappointed.

ohdearme1958 · 02/10/2016 21:20

What's with all the jumping to conclusions about people who lease cars? We lease our Land Rover LR4 for the convenience and the built-in service from the dealership, so for that reason it's much simpler to lease than own

Well thats a better reason than having to lease because you don't have a granny to sell in order to raise funds to buy outright. And why don't you have a granny to sell? Well that would probably be because you already sold her to pay the school fees.

Loafingaround · 02/10/2016 21:28

Agree 100% with this thread and so many comments on it. Every time I see one my blood boils -they're so ridiculously bulky, ugly and evil looking, hog up the road, nearly always take up more than their parking space/park in an appalling manner and more often than not have stupid, smug looking idiots driving them in an arrogant and reckless way. Came back to carpark with my 2 dc today to find one parked next to me so close- (around 5 inches over onto my side/over the line) I had to actually leave DC in buggy and reverse car out before I was able to open door to get baby in with car seat. Had a can of coke on me, and poured it all over their windscreen, not that it would cause them much anguish...but hope it did!! Live in SW London and they are everywhere, just a chavmobil to me now, no-one with any class would actually drive one. Rant over.

JustCallMeKate · 02/10/2016 21:34

Had a can of coke on me, and poured it all over their windscreen, not that it would cause them much anguish...but hope it did!! Live in SW London and they are everywhere, just a chavmobil to me now, no-one with any class would actually drive one. Rant over.

I'm sat here wondering why anyone would pour a can of coke over anyone's windscreen? Hmm I'm also wondering what cars people do drive that have 'class'?

tigerdriverII · 02/10/2016 21:36

Well ain't you a charmer
*Loafing around

WinnieFosterTether · 02/10/2016 21:46

I can't work out how being flashy stops something from being useful. They're not mutually exclusive. Hmm
I love my flashy car and it's useful for driving offroad which we do daily.
I've also driven pick-ups and transits so parking isn't an issue.

Sendraboots · 02/10/2016 21:48

the real arseholes drive audis

ohdearme1958 · 02/10/2016 21:48

I had to actually leave DC in buggy and reverse car out before I was able to open door to get baby in with car seat.

I had to get my 25 year old daughter to reverse my car out of a parking space to day because someone had parked very close to me in their Hyundai car. She's tiny and could fit in the very small gap the car door would open. The person who'd blocked me had parked very close to me because of the person on the other side of them not parking properly - they were on a beautiful looking motor bike and had parked diagonally.

It wasn't nice behaviour on their part but to be honest with you if I'm going to have stroke brought on by stress I'd rather it was for something really serious and this wasn't.

And if my daughter hadn't been with me? I'd just have waited for a tiny person to come along and asked them to help me.

Not that Im a fat RR driver, you understand.

herethereandeverywhere · 02/10/2016 21:50

every time I see one my blood boils. Really? Loafing A type of car makes you react like that? Get a life, or some therapy.

Because people with 'class' and non-'chavs' are known for pouring cans of Coke on the windscreens of unsuspecting car owners....how childish.

You must have permanently boiling blood in SWLondon...

Philoslothy · 02/10/2016 21:50

the real arseholes drive audis

Yep, we have had one of those two. I am at least consistent in my arse hole decisions.

ohdearme1958 · 02/10/2016 21:58

*the real arseholes drive audis

Yep, we have had one of those two. I am at least consistent in my arse hole decisions*

Grin

Well just so you're not alone I'll admit that family wise we have 2 Toyota Land Cruisers, a Mercedes 4x4, a Discovery, another Vogue, an Evoque, and a Ford Explorer we call the space ship because its what my son who's on the spectrum gets taken around in - he's known very affectionately in our immediate family as our astronaut.

NataliaOsipova · 02/10/2016 22:01

I am prepared to be told I am stupidly paranoid, but my objection is this. If you drive around in an ostentatious car, especially one with personalised number plates, then you are advertising that you are rich. Everywhere you go. And people don't randomly burgle houses these days; often robberies are planned and targeted. It would be so easy for someone to spot that sort of car and pick on the driver as a target. Follow them round for a few days find out where they live, where their kids go to school, when they are usually in on their own with the kids etc etc. People like to be conspicuous, but I think that's a huge downside, especially if you live a long way away from neighbours. I regularly see people's cars and recognise their number plate and think "Oh there's X at Y". Must be so, so easy if you're criminally minded that way....

ShelaghTurner · 02/10/2016 22:09

I've just built an Evoque that's coming in at £62K. If anyone wants to give me the money I'll give it a shot Wink

ohdearme1958 · 02/10/2016 22:13

I've just built an Evoque that's coming in at £62K. If anyone wants to give me the money I'll give it a shot wink

I'd ask Loathing, she must have plenty of money if she can afford to thrown tins of coke away like that.

BlancheBlue · 02/10/2016 22:17

I've just built an Evoque that's coming in at £62K

How vulgar

gettingbythistime · 02/10/2016 22:20

I have a deep dislike for the average BMW or rr 4x4 driver. They never give way. They never thank you if you give way to them. They drive too fast but worst of all, THEY ALWAYS DRIVE UP YOUR FUCKING ARSE. They tend to attract very superficial money status motivated types. Dd goes to a private school. 2/3rds if not more drive the bastards. They park or drop off where they like including doing all the things the signs tell drivers not too AAARRRGGHH

MissHemsworth · 02/10/2016 22:24

There are so many on the road around here I can't understand how so many people can afford one! Saying that I'd give my right arm for a white Evoque, I just really like them ok!

gettingbythistime · 02/10/2016 22:24

Laughable but predictable that they think anyone that dislikes them is envious. It goes with the mentality 😁. It's all about money. I often see small houses with these vehicles in the drive. Tbh I would never drive one. I find them rather naff. Very nouveau. And yes, we could afford one

ohdearme1958 · 02/10/2016 22:28

I have a deep dislike for the average BMW or rr 4x4 driver

Says the poster with a child in private education. 😂

This really is just the thread that keeps on giving. ❤️

Yarboosucks · 02/10/2016 22:43

If the fascists ever decide to make their own version on Top Gear, they should recruit off this thread!

gettingbythistime · 02/10/2016 22:44

Nothing wrong with private education. Nothing wrong with 4x4s either if they are driven by people who dont have their heads up their arse.

TinklyLittleLaugh · 02/10/2016 22:51

Is "nouveau" the new way of saying "chavvy" or something? So a kind of weasley sneaky way of avoiding a term that is actually rather frowned on on Mumsnet.

I'm pretty judgy, I don't deny it. But to judge someone and make nasty comments because of the car they drive is so horribly snobby and offensive. How ignorant and shallow would you have to be to do that? This thread isn't even funny any more: it's just plain nasty and quite pathetic.