If you own a ranger rover

[Yesfrepp]

Is it on finance? Just wondering how many people actually buy then outright? They are my dream car and although I could finance a monthly payment I could never buy one outright! How much do you have to earn for that?! I’m on 89k for context

I would say I'm a considerate driver (unlike many RR drivers) and good at reversing when needed. They are stupidly wide though and as PPs have said, you have to pick an empty space as far away from other cars as possible as there's so much interior fitting on the door that it's hard to squeeze out otherwise. The rear leg room is also appalling given the size, there's more leg room in my son's Seat Leon.

As lovely as my BMW is, it's not a patch on the quality of the RR (I'll ignore the fact my X3 doesn't break and can't be stolen in two seconds flat). I think part of the issue is that there's so much wiring for all the fancy electrics (I think it's 5 or 10 km worth, I can't quite remember) that it has multiple different ways to break.

There's always people on mumsent who think that if you disagree with someone's taste in something expensive, you automatically must be jealous. I really don't think that's the case!

If I were to feel jealous about a car it would be a beautiful 1960s British sports car. Not a Chelsea tractor!

See this just sounds ridiculous to me, how can something be a ‘Wankers car?!’ I know two people who have them, one is my lovely retired neighbour and another is a colleague who is one of the nicest guys in the office. It’s so bizarre to judge who someone is based on their car.

Does someone magically cease to be a wanker if they trade their RR for say a Fiesta?

And no I don’t have one, I prefer saloons!!

Drug dealers drive them where I live then they get taken away by the police as a proceeds of crime item and auctioned off.

I don't think I actually know anyone that owns one and uses it off road, I drove one on an experience day and it was great fun and a nice car to drive.

They are getting stolen from the U.K. and sent to Russia and Dubai so I would stay clear of those. I imagine the insurance is very high too.

Not sure which model but a equine vet I follow online had one which had host of problems so always in garage and 2x engines fail dramatically which was clearly a manufacturer fault but JLR weren't interested so I assume they lost a load on selling it so perhaps your better off on leases. There were so many people posted about the problems they'd had and would never buy from JLR again, many having owned land/range rovers previously but now felt quality & customer service was 💩

They're mostly bought by city-dwellers and suburbanites, not people who actually need to tow a horse box.

I think that they mean that it dominates the road. Probably sending pedestrians scattering in its wake.

If they could build them with Japanese reliability they’d be incredible, as it is they’re the shittest cars you can buy. Wouldn’t touch a JLR product with a barge pole. If you need to tow buy a Land Cruiser.

DH & I are 'real farmers' & we use a quad bike & an elderly landrover that would never get through an MOT.
Don't know any farmers who drive a range Rover around the hills
Vets seem to have them & some of the wealthier horse owners tow with them.

I don’t have one but the few people I know with one have them as company cars. I know someone who has hers on finance and is bitterly regretting it as her insurance is so high and it’s a bitch to park.

Where we live every other person owns a range rovers, most with private registrations. And if they don't own a range rover they own a Tesla, idk what annoys me more tbh!!

I'm the total other end of the scale in a 10 year old Citroen c1.
I've never seen the appeal of big cars like range rovers, I'd never park it for a start, but this comment made me smile! I'd love to drive an armchair, they should put that on the advert!!! Sounds amazing!

All my Land Rovers including my Range Rover have been bought outright, those that dislike them have clearly never driven one as they’re lovely to drive.

(live in country, tow trailers, not going to work with a Nissan Leaf)

This was my beast. Supremely comfortable, until the air suspension failed (which it did, regularly) when I then had to drive it to the garage at 20km/h hanging onto my tits to stop them bashing me in the face...

I live rurally and would buy any other type of 4x4 right now. The insurance cost has gone through the roof.

The real Range Rover is the full size model (formerly known as "Vogue" for years since 1981) which is around 5.1 metres in length, and over two metres wide.

@JacquesHarlow Vogue is the spec not an alternative name for the model. The model is Range Rover.
Land Rover Range Rover Vogue or Land Rover Range Rover Autobiography or Land Rover Range Rover HSE for example. These are just trim levels like Ghia, Zetec for a Ford. I agree with evoque not being a real Range Rover.

This post is spot on.

I recently went on a coach trip to a Cotswolds village, and there was a Range Rover in one of the few spaces designated for coaches. For context, alongside was an Aston Martin taking up another coach space.

I so wish I’d photographed and posted on the YPLAC (You Park Like a Cunt) website.

Masses of ignorance on this thread, but also a bit of a daft question. Range Rovers have been available since 1970 in a range of forms - so it's nuts to make such crazy generalisations.

Chelsea tractor.

Wow! how original.

Many are leased, often by people who can barely afford to do so. The number of them with bald tyres is very telling - you can easily spend over £1000 on a full set and they REALLY eat tyres due to being so heavy.

I REALLY miss my Landrover 'Defender' which shared many mechanical parts from the first Range Rovers but at least you can hose down the inside.
Landrover (the company ) had a head in the sand approach to design and reliabiliity and managed to 'mess up' on all the GOOD ideas that early users found useful but were badly implemented. I drove my '90' (as it was) for 34 years, and I miss it more than my 'Ex'. Like many companies, british management had good ideas but fall when it comes to reliability and development. Repair my '90' I only needed some oil and a medium hammer.

I am sure I read that most new cars are leased now, I knew someone on 25k a year who had a decent Audi, his payments were such he struggled to pay for petrol.

I know people who would work 3 or 4 extra night shifts a month just to be able to afford an expensive car that they will never own.

Balls to that, life's too short.

I own mine. Don’t buy a brand new one it’s madness. You can get a good 2015 plate for not a huge amount of money. I have three at the moment. A 2021, 2015 and a 2008. I use them all for different things. They are stolen but a good garage will pull out the technology used to steal the new ones and replace.

Trust me when some twat in their financed metal tin the size of a shoe box can’t decide which lane they’re in, you’ll feel so much safer than in some little noddy car.

I’d rather be called a wanker by 500 people on her than be in hospital or worse because of someone else’s poor decision