My mind was made after about the third post. Wife and I are spending a few days in New Orleans and saw a new one. Really liked the looks but will pass on the headaches. An old attorney in my home town still drives a very old one. He swears by their toughness. But his might actually be a 65
Get an Acura MDX if you want an upscale SUV. They do what the Range Rover does and don't break down every 400 miles.
this...or the big Lexus SUV, had one of those and they are very nice.
had two friends who owned Range Rovers within the last couple of years, both dumped them very quickly for the reasons cited above. when they're working they're very cool cars with lots of amenities, and they really do have good ground clearance....or water clearance here. but the service problems get to be almost a parody. I'd pass.
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The old girl in the clip below is not far from stock, and is certainly not a heavily modified rock crawler, but she gets by..
Perhaps, but in my former days I was a mechanic and RR's were fraught with mechanical woes; and obtaining parts was an absolute joke. Much like the all wheel drive Jaguars these days. Crap.
The old Land Rover models were legendary around the world, but then again they were simpler vehicles for a simpler time.
Range rovers have a purpose. just not here in the US. Now if you were overseas in africa or so/east europe/asia i will say that alomst no where you could go and not find a part or someone that could make you one. friends had a 12 y/o rover in india and they had no issues comming up with some street-side mechanic that coulod make them gears for the tranny
Get an Acura MDX if you want an upscale SUV. They do what the Range Rover does and don't break down every 400 miles.
this...or the big Lexus SUV, had one of those and they are very nice.
The Lexus LX is the Toyota Land Cruiser in disguise. The Lexus GX is nothing more than an upscale Toyota 4Runner.
yeah, but it's a very nice disquise. We have two Lexi right now...my wife loves the things. The BMW dealership here....then owned by Saints owner Tom Benson....had the worst, most arrogant service department imaginable. After her second bimmer she said no mas and switched. The reliability is amazing, and the service department is great. I just wish they'd quit giving her these $70K loaner vehicles when hers goes in for regular service....puts dangerous ideas in her head.
when I finally have to put a bullet in my 13 year old Suburban, I'm probably going to replace it with a Tundra.
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Make me a douche not withstanding current douchness? I want one. The wife says it is pretentious. Tell me the good or bad. Are they as reliable as I have been told or is that a thing of the past?
Big pile of steaming dog [bleep]. Move along. Will spend more time in the shop than the driveway, but the dumbass nieghbors will be impressed. If that impresses you, go for it. And yes, will make you a douche. Make sure to put an Obummer/Bendem sticker on it.
Make me a douche not withstanding current douchness? I want one. The wife says it is pretentious. Tell me the good or bad. Are they as reliable as I have been told or is that a thing of the past?
Big pile of steaming dog [bleep]. Move along. Will spend more time in the shop than the driveway, but the dumbass nieghbors will be impressed. If that impresses you, go for it. And yes, will make you a douche. Make sure to put an Obummer/Bendem sticker on it.
Use to be a guy over on AR, that was from West Australia...
he had a really cool 1955 Land Rover... with a diesel engine...
his dad had bought it new in Sydney back in 1955 and drove it out to West Australia, somewhere near Freemantle I think he said..
55 is the year it was made and was also the top speed on it from day one...
as far as reliable? I remember him saying the old diesel in it had never been replaced.. it just kept chuggin.. as long as it's driver wasn't in a big hurry or could live with 55 mph or 90km being flat out...
It might have been slow but I rate the cool factor as real high on that old one...
no offense to Pete E, but I had it burned into my head was a kid when I lived in England back in the 1960s, that the Limey's couldn't even make a lamp with one light bulb reliable, when it came to electrical stuff... and this was put into my head by our English Neighbors, as we lived off base over there...
( near Cambridge and Bedford and Huntingdon Pete, in case you were wondering... our town we resided in was not far from the old A 1. )
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Get an Acura MDX if you want an upscale SUV. They do what the Range Rover does and don't break down every 400 miles.
this...or the big Lexus SUV, had one of those and they are very nice.
The Lexus LX is the Toyota Land Cruiser in disguise. The Lexus GX is nothing more than an upscale Toyota 4Runner.
yeah, but it's a very nice disquise. We have two Lexi right now...my wife loves the things.
There's not much difference between the trim level of an LX and a Land Cruiser. And based on the number of Toyota dealerships versus Lexus dealerships, I'd take the Land Cruiser over the LX if buying new.
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The campfire is the most outside exposure I get. No TV, no newspaper.
no offense to Pete E, but I had it burned into my head was a kid when I lived in England back in the 1960s, that the Limey's couldn't even make a lamp with one light bulb reliable, when it came to electrical stuff... and this was put into my head by our English Neighbors, as we lived off base over there...
( near Cambridge and Bedford and Huntingdon Pete, in case you were wondering... our town we resided in was not far from the old A 1. )
I travel past Huntingdon fairly regularly on the A14 going out past RAF Lakenheath to where I stalk..
Re the comments about reliability, no offence taken as British cars in general were pretty terrible up to the late 1970's early 1980's and it wasn't until we started importing Jap cars in any numbers that things improved.
Even today, I would rather buy a British built car from a Japanese company, than a British built Ford or Vauxhall. In fact, as far as lack of reliability goes, one of the worst cars I ever owned was a Vauxhall and to this day, I would never buy another...
You really need to buy two. So you have something to drive when one in the shop.... Expect $600 per visit to the (any) shop.
Here is the true test. Go to the dealership, test drive one or two just off 36,000 mile three year lease. Then drive a new one. After three years the front wheel wobble (check the tire wear), transmission shifting, and motor are true n dictators of what you will end up with.
If its a true bling car, ok choice. Just dont expect much over time. A better option is the lexus line or a Benz g-wagon. For quality and long term ownership.
The late model RR's and rovers have a dozen ECM's. Cause alot of the electronic problems. Just sitting they are drawing power to the ECM's.
The older models, RR and discovery 1's have straight axles, ok motors, locking diffs and out of the box are pretty decent vehicles.
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