Coming over from the M Power Forum to Land Rover!

Coming over from the M Power Forum to Land Rover!

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Bigglez

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147 posts

134 months

Tuesday 15th April 2014
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Hello All,

Just seen my much loved E61 M5 Touring drive off in the hands of its new owner. A sad moment - been a wonderful car to me but was wasted with kind of driving I do (loaded up with two very small children plus wife. Plus said wife pootling about in a 500hp supercar using 0.001% of the performance didn't help.

So - tomorrow I go to pick up my 2010 Full Fat Range Rover TDV8 Vogue. 3 tonnes of leather and wood will make for quite a different experience, but one I'm looking forward to.

Buck Blue - One owner - a 70YR old cattle breeder from Scotland who's a CBE no less, and I'm getting from a dealer who took it off the hands of the franchised dealer in Stirling.

Placed a deposit on it unseen - but had the dealer run it round to Land Rover Centre in Liverpool who spent two hours going over it with a fine toothcomb and pronounced it to be in excellent condition - drove like it had half the 97k miles. I normally don't buy high milers, but the prior ownership history plus it having done motorway miles up and down scotland plus the ability to get into a 2010 for the price of a 2007/57 were just too tempting. Test drove the same car with lower miles admittedly at a main dealer that was up for £36k..

Fingers crossed I've bagged a bargain - tomorrow will tell when I go pick it up and pay for it..

Pics below - I'll take more once I have it..




MGZTV8

591 posts

148 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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Well,

how is it?

djohnson

3,412 posts

222 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Looks good. After many years of performance cars (lastly a 997 turbo and before that a m6) I have just made the switch to a 2012 4.4 TDV8 Range Rover. 2 months and 3k miles in and I am living the car and not looked back.