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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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EatsShitAndLeaves · 03/10/2016 18:57

Can I just declare I want to do the school run in a Lambo Grin even though my son gets the bus, it's out of my way to work and my DS would be embarrassed to hell.

Those are (believe it or not) wider than a large RR but totally gorgeous.

everythingis · 03/10/2016 19:04

I can't get the arse about evoques. Poncy they are but v modest in size.
It's unnecessary size of vehicle that annoys me. Those yank truck things are much worse than rr but less common.

I drive a touran for reference.

Mrskeats · 03/10/2016 19:10

I prefer the term eccentric or possibly bohemian waitrose ;))

Strokethefurrywall · 03/10/2016 19:12

It's even bigger than the RR and Porsche Cayenne. And the white is smart as fuck. It's basically a bus. And I live in an island with no hills or off road requirements.

But we're all wankers here because nobody can driver properly which is why we all own tanks. To piss everyone else off Wink

WaitrosePigeon · 03/10/2016 19:13

Bohemian, love it Grin

MaQueen · 03/10/2016 19:15

RRs are just indicative of the current, fashionable, aspirational lifestyle...

Back in the 70s it was all shag pile carpets, Hostess trolleys, fondue dinner parties and bottles of Matteus Rose...

Back in the 80s it was all power dressing, convertible Golf GTis, Sony Walkmans and a flat in the Docklands...

Nowadays, it's all RRs, Agas, Joules wellies, black labradours and vast dining kitchens with bi folding doors out to the garden.

PatMullins · 03/10/2016 19:18

EatsShit there's a bloke here who does the school run occasionally in his white lambo. It is gorgeous.

Tequilamockinbird · 03/10/2016 19:22

Oh God, I've just ordered an Evoque....in white Blush. DH wanted white because 'it looks like a stormtrooper'.

ohdearme1958 · 03/10/2016 19:23

My next car is the Ford Expedition. I am a total wanker though

We have one of those as well. We call it the spaceship because we affectionately say my disabled son is an astronaut - his heads ialways in the clouds. It's his car though he'll never be able to drive it. He's a young man and young men have their own car. We bought it because he's a giant and he doesn't look out of proportion size wise when he's in it. But the real selling point was that it's big enough inside for a fight restraint to take place if need be.

That and the fact if you put all the seats down in the back you can get a double mattress and a family of 4 unexpected visitors in it for the night. But if we're really pushed for space we have this tent thing that can be fitted on the roof and that takes care of another family.

Noofly · 03/10/2016 19:25

APlaceOnTheCouch has posted what I always wonder about when reading scathing comments about RRs being used in the school run or at the supermarket etc.

When I get my hypothetical RR or other 4x4 I'll be taking it on the the school run (central Edinburgh although we live well outside the city) and to the supermarket etc because it will be my only car! Do all these posters think RR owners should have two cars so they can can think, "Ah, the school run, must take the other car" or "taking the dog down the dirt single track for a walk in the hills, can use the RR for that!"

NavyandWhite · 03/10/2016 19:26

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MaQueen · 03/10/2016 19:36

Nope not bitter. Just observing that certain accoutrements come and go with fashion, and that these accoutrements are considered very aspirational by some people.

EvansOvalPies · 03/10/2016 19:37

Yep, much of the time the vehicle is practical for your normal, everyday use, but some of the time you have to use it for mundane school runs or shopping trips. For the latter you get judged. So should you then add another vehicle into your equation, just to keep the moaners at bay? I don't think so. If you had to have a large vehicle, for whatever reason, would you really want to have another, smaller vehicle - thereby resulting in 2x : insurance, MOT, road tax - just to accommodate a moaning someone else who can neither park nor drive correctly? A large car takes up not a great deal more space than a smaller car - as said above, if you are the BAD driver of a smaller car, you cause more problems.

EvansOvalPies · 03/10/2016 19:46

Nope not bitter. Just observing that certain accoutrements come and go with fashion, and that these accoutrements are considered very aspirational by some people

That's so funny - I'd love someone to aspire to my battered old RR. Please - come and take it, for a very fine fee. (Actually, no don't - I love her, and she's really, really useful).

MaQueen · 03/10/2016 20:28

I just equate white, gleaming RRs as the Seventies equivalent of the Hostess trolley.

I remember my Mum's friends actually coming over to specifically see her new HT and ooing and ahhing over its integral hotplate Grin

stopgap · 03/10/2016 20:56

In America, I believe that Range Rovers and Land Rovers are considered a midsize SUV. I feel totally overshadowed by people in Chevvy Suburbans, say, or Cadillac Escalades. And no, even with camera assist, I wouldn't fancy parallel parking one of those behemoths with a convoy of impatient drivers honking behind me.

FeralBeryl · 03/10/2016 21:27

Stopgap
You mean like this big bastard Smile look how it dwarfs the RR nevermind the car behind it

To think that 90% of Range Rover owners
MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 03/10/2016 21:35

My old estate car was nearly a foot longer than my Freelander.

Philoslothy · 03/10/2016 23:51

Nowadays, it's all RRs, Agas, Joules wellies, black labradours and vast dining kitchens with bi folding doors out to the garden.

Even I know that joules wellies are not aspirational. They are shit wellies. I don't think black labs are either.

Philoslothy · 03/10/2016 23:53

And again RR are not aspirational! An Aston Martin yes but not a RR.

I agree, we own another car that gets commented upon, nobody bats an eyelid at a RR anymore.

pooh2 · 04/10/2016 00:04

Tequila, I am so delighted someone else thinks they look like stormtroopers, I saw one the other day and said the very same to my DH! He didn't see the resemblence, sadly :(

stopgap · 04/10/2016 01:02

Exactly, FeralBeryl. I think that's a Dodge Ram.

NavyandWhite · 04/10/2016 08:12

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APlaceOnTheCouch · 04/10/2016 08:31

I think my brother's lab always had aspirations above being MC tbh. I'm pretty sure he wanted to be king of the dog world rather than study in Paris.

Bogeyface · 04/10/2016 09:02

Discussing this thread yesterday and was told that an old LR beats an old RR, an old RR beats a new RR and a very old Volvo beats everything because that means that you are UC! :o

I asked what it means if you have any kind of upmarket sports car and apparantly thats too try hard. My volvo isnt old enough to be considered UC yet, its still at the aspirational stage, I need another 10 years on it!

The person who told me this is on the eges of the UC btw, and it was all very tongue in cheek before anyone has a SOH failure!