Rich people = same car

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To wonder why all the loaded people at my kids’ school drive the same car - Range Rover/ Land Rover? Surely there are more choices to spend money on?? They are like sheep!

People who are actually well off don't tend to buy lease purchase range rovers. They buy £3-5k bangers and run them in to the ground. Unless they're footballers with no class really

you know the ins and outs of every well person then? I know quite a few millionaires with brand new RR. How’s about that!

DH says they are terrific to drive, but I find they would be too impractical for us, they are too big and we don't have the drive space for one. Plus if I had a really expensive car I'd be worried about theft all the time, we've had a vehicle stolen from outside our house before. I'm worried enough about our VWs.

My dream car, when DDs have left home and it's just the two of us, is a little Mazda MX5. That will do for me.

And they all have brioche for breakfast I have noticed. This is the key class marker imo.

People who are actually well off don't tend to buy lease purchase range rovers. They buy £3-5k bangers and run them in to the ground. Unless they're footballers with no class really

This is not true. Some drive bangers; a lot of them drive Porsche Cayennes/X5x/Teslas/Jaguars and so forth (and RRs, of course).

And they all have brioche for breakfast I have noticed.

@Monday55 she's probably got the RR evoke which although is the similar size & shape on the outside as a LRdisco sport (easy to mix up) somehow managed to have a smaller rear windscreen giving bad visibility and i really don't understand how but is also quite a bit smaller inside. The evoke is however posher inside but that doesn't bother me as our LR is covered in a layer of mud.

The evokes are absolutely lovely in the front and are nice to drive. They are just huge with terrible visibility and a crap boot!

Plus if I had a really expensive car I'd be worried about theft all the time, we've had a vehicle stolen from outside our house before.

We've had two cars stolen from in front of our house. I thought the insurance company would give us a lot of grief they second time, but they had nothing much to say about it.

London is not really a great place for a nice car, it's really silly.

I'm in the SE but not London - the thing is it's not far from the coast and so easy to whisk a car out of the country.

They depress me - because thier popularity suggests that people aren't thinking at all about carbon emissions or the planet when they make their purchasing decisions. Bit like flying really. No decision like this is "purely personal" as it impacts on everyone.

This is indeed a cringe worthy thread with a lot of craven, jealous posters - and no, I don't have a Land Rover or a Range Rover so it hasn't struck a nerve.

Expensive cars are not usually bought to show off - they are just nicer, more pleasant to drive, comfortable, luxurious with many added extras and altogether a better, safer driving experience why wouldn't you buy that if you can afford it?

I was going to ask the posters calling them gas guzzlers, are they certain they are not hybrids?

I drive the new xc90 hybrid which is not bad at all for local trips, if you saw me doing the school run you would most probably sneer and call me aspirational.
It is the most amazing car to drive, pure luxury and I use it for towing but you also wouldn’t know that as it’s a hidden tow-bar.
The cameras mean I can reverse to hitch up accurately every time so I look like a pro .

Not on finance, bought for cash for just under 80k, judge away, I don’t care and I find it strange that anyone else ascribes all these character flaws according to whatcars people drive.

I agree with the romantic Jilly Cooper stories of bumbling aristocratic eccentrics driving round in old ‘shooting brakes’ as being absolute codswallop too.

If you think having a negative opinion about something means people are jealous, you are missing something

Expensive cars are not usually bought to show off
really?

I don't know what it is about having the same car as others. DH's friend bought a new 4x4 (I think, that style anyways) and two months later 3 of their other common friends/acquaintances had the exact same car....It's just strange.

No honestly and putting a row of faces after the ‘showing off comment’ doesn’t make it any less barbed.

The richest person I know has about 4 or 5 RR, 2 Ferraris and something else, he's got them on his Facebook background pic and I can't be arsed checking right now.

Big cars bother me no need to be posh, because we seriously are struggling to fin in the town. I totally get them if they are needed of course, my husband drives a van. But to make my life easier in the diminishing space I got myself a Fiat 500, love it.

It’s all about “look at me” my dads Land Rover was full of mud and dog hairs and welly boots and shovels. He found it hilarious all these posh mums in central London driving them!?

To me those are farm verhicles.

TBF there is something inherently stupid about parking an expensive depreciating asset on a public road. A valuable car needs gates, a secure garage and security lighting. I'd no more take dh's wanky car to the supermarket than schedule a flying unicorn to take me. Although I did see a Bentley turn into Aldi the other day and it made me smile.

Our little road has a half dozen 20ish children it and a high no of elderly Corsas and Polos. Not a RR in sight. Audi, BMW, Honda and Lexus seem to be the cars of choice.

If you look at them from the back they look like they have a nappy on! I guess it's there to protect the car from when going off road but it just doesn't look right.

The richest person I know has a Mercedes, but actually the richest person I know isn't very rich.

This thread is hilarious. Honestly, anyone denying that a RR is the choice of car for a social climber hasn't lived amongst social climbers in their neighbourhood.

Of course not everyone who buys them are aspiring middle class wannabes, some buy them just for the hell of it. But I see it time and time again where we live. Cliques of people who probably wouldn't have the faintest idea about actual country living, roaring about in their huge, gas guzzling machines so they can look part of the it crowd. Ridiculous.

I'd also like to hear about hybrid cars too please. We're about to replace our Nissan and are looking at hybrids. Specifically because I feel like being a twat ones that can be stepped in to because my back is not keen on that bending malarkey

I think people are confusing posh and rich. Sometimes posh people are not rich and do have old bangers. Definitely not all rich people are posh!

Haven't read the full thread, just thought this advert was very well placed 😂

I have brioche for breakfast.
Now I don’t mind my modest house and modest car so much

Plus during the beast from the east last year and the floods a few years before, I was the only member of staff living in my area that managed

NDN with a Range Rover brought us bread, milk and bacon 😀