I now realise why everybody loves Range Rovers

[anonymous-user]

Drihump Trolomite said:

I would get an RR but the sport, no matter how capable, just screams council or drugs dealer. A terrible image I just cannot overcome.

Simple antidote to that is get one with small wheels, light metallics - green, beige etc, and no tints and it looks more 'country'

Problem is most are black, with black tints and 22" rims

[PurpleTurtle]

The Evoque screams ‘PCP’d to the max and watches far too much Love Island’ to me.

Not sure if that’s the image JLR’s Marketing people were hoping to cultivate but it’s how I see them.

[Welshbeef]

The version that came in 2012 onwards was and is very special.

Shame no 7 seats and the badging is baffling

[Sheepshanks]

Chestrockwell said:

I’m fully comprehensive insured......

How? In your OP you said you don’t have a car.

Chestrockwell said:

.....on other cars third party and the Range Rover is also insured fully comprehensive. I only borrowed it for the day,

Ah, that’s OK - you can’t crash it if you only drive it for a day. Unless you’ve been added to the RRS’s insurance it’s irrelevant while you’re driving it.

[anonymous-user]

PurpleTurtle said:

The Evoque screams ‘PCP’d to the max and watches far too much Love Island’ to me.

Not sure if that’s the image JLR’s Marketing people were hoping to cultivate but it’s how I see them.

The Evoque is a handbag car.

[Tannedbaldhead]

But in 2012 I was surveying multiple properties on a large country estate. Was having a terrible time with grounding the exhaust of my Mercedes E Class on the high crowns of many of the single tracks and was offered the Game Keeper's hack, a 13 year old Subaru Forrester, the next day.
The next morning instead of the Scooby I was given the Lord Of The Manor's hack, a brand new FFRR for the day. It was black, shiney and had the most gorgeous cream leather interior.
I loved it and totally get the appeal. That said it was bloody huge and an absolute liability in the environment of tight single track roads and dirt tracks up to farm houses.
After giving it back my Merc felt distinctly ordinary.

[Drihump Trolomite]

Because it was ordinary

[Speed addicted]

Autonomy said:

PurpleTurtle said:

The Evoque screams ‘PCP’d to the max and watches far too much Love Island’ to me.

Not sure if that’s the image JLR’s Marketing people were hoping to cultivate but it’s how I see them.

The Evoque is a handbag car.

My wife’s got one, in the last three years it’s been faultless.
It’s comfortable, handles well (for a small 4x4) and is actually quite nippy.
When she got it we did the land rover off-road day in one and I was really impressed by its ability, obviously they wouldn’t have taken us into something it couldn’t handle but it made off-roading easy.

Overall I quite like it. I probably wouldn’t buy one myself but it feels like a high quality thing when you’re in it.

I considered the sport myself previously but couldn’t get on with its reverse tardis dimensions, the full size Rangerover feels huge in comparison.

[Tannedbaldhead]

Drihump Trolomite said:

Because it was ordinary

They don't call them Berlin Taxis for nothing.

[Drihump Trolomite]

Tannedbaldhead said:

Drihump Trolomite said:

Because it was ordinary

They don't call them Berlin Taxis for nothing.

[Sheepshanks]

Tannedbaldhead said:

But in 2012 I was surveying multiple properties on a large country estate. Was having a terrible time with grounding the exhaust of my Mercedes E Class on the high crowns of many of the single tracks and was offered the Game Keeper's hack, a 13 year old Subaru Forrester, the next day.
The next morning instead of the Scooby I was given the Lord Of The Manor's hack, a brand new FFRR for the day. It was black, shiney and had the most gorgeous cream leather interior.
I loved it and totally get the appeal. That said it was bloody huge and an absolute liability in the environment of tight single track roads and dirt tracks up to farm houses.
After giving it back my Merc felt distinctly ordinary.

It may well be made up but I read a story along those lines where the guy was told “take the RangeRover”. But there were two - a very old one and a brand new one. You can guess the rest.

[TheDrBrian]

Sheepshanks said:

Chestrockwell said:

I’m fully comprehensive insured......

How? In your OP you said you don’t have a car.

Chestrockwell said:

.....on other cars third party and the Range Rover is also insured fully comprehensive. I only borrowed it for the day,

Ah, that’s OK - you can’t crash it if you only drive it for a day. Unless you’ve been added to the RRS’s insurance it’s irrelevant while you’re driving it.

What happened to the OPs well ventilated fwd shopping trolley?

[Chestrockwell]

Sheepshanks said:

Chestrockwell said:

I’m fully comprehensive insured......

How? In your OP you said you don’t have a car.

Chestrockwell said:

.....on other cars third party and the Range Rover is also insured fully comprehensive. I only borrowed it for the day,

Ah, that’s OK - you can’t crash it if you only drive it for a day. Unless you’ve been added to the RRS’s insurance it’s irrelevant while you’re driving it.

Oh find something else to moan about, I bet you’re that type to leave bad reviews on trip advisor, stand on a main road with a high vis jacket on with a speed gun and object to super markets late night alcohol licences in high streets, I see your type all the time moaning about the self scan machines in supermarkets, just a person with lots of time and nothing else to do but moan!

I’m not an idiot, I’m insured on the car, do you think I’m going to risk 6 points on my licence and a massive fine to drive an old Range Rover about for a day, I don’t even need to explain myself!!

I see lots of stuff on PH, lots of stuff that’s contradictory but I just carry on scrolling because a. It’s not my business and B. I’m not going waste my time quoting and unquoting different things and use internet bandwidth to convey a message that achieves nothing. The worst part is that picking holes in something that’s not even relevant to the thread, I’m praising a car and you’re trying to figure out if I’m insured or not! Grow up

Edited by Chestrockwell on Sunday 1st December 23:22

[Chestrockwell]

We’ve got Columbo here investigating me and my insurance, sifting through the messages to see what I said and quoting sentences on a Sunday evening, don’t you have a complaint to make to the council because of your neighbours hedges going onto your garden

[Sheepshanks]

Hmm.....a lot of bluster.

Do you not realise people on here will see that it’s dawned on you that you’ve messed up?

[Chestrockwell]

Sheepshanks said:

Hmm.....a lot of bluster.

Do you not realise people on here will see that it’s dawned on you that you’ve messed up?

Ok I have no insurance and I’ve been driving around dangerously, I’m a drug dealer and a pimp.

Now what?

What gives you the impression that I care, I come here with my knowledge on cars to share experience, discuss and learn things from others. It’s clear that’s what I’m about so why do feel the need to try and have a pop about insurance, start quoting and unquoting things. I saw the message you posted, it was a helpful message about insurance, you then deleted it. Why didn’t you send that in the first place? Because people like you thrive on bothering others. My nephew is 6 and I hear a lot of playground stories that sound a lot like things that happen on PistonHeads. It’s very sad really!

[GT03ROB]

14 years ago almost to the day I picked up my brand new 2.7 V6 diesel RRS. I've still got it on 115000miles. I would appear to be fortunate as not much has ever gone wrong, never been stranded & everything still works.

It's comfortable to drive huge distances, quiet, spacious. Economy I seem to get around 30 on a motorway run, a fair bit less around town. It's not quick, but I would also not describe it as slow. You can comfortably hustle it along at the speed limit, which surely is all you need from such a car.

It's probably worth so little 2nd hand it makes no sense getting rid of. Would a straight replacement costing 75k more really do that much better job?

[g3org3y]

Sheepshanks said:

Tannedbaldhead said:

But in 2012 I was surveying multiple properties on a large country estate. Was having a terrible time with grounding the exhaust of my Mercedes E Class on the high crowns of many of the single tracks and was offered the Game Keeper's hack, a 13 year old Subaru Forrester, the next day.
The next morning instead of the Scooby I was given the Lord Of The Manor's hack, a brand new FFRR for the day. It was black, shiney and had the most gorgeous cream leather interior.
I loved it and totally get the appeal. That said it was bloody huge and an absolute liability in the environment of tight single track roads and dirt tracks up to farm houses.
After giving it back my Merc felt distinctly ordinary.

It may well be made up but I read a story along those lines where the guy was told “take the RangeRover”. But there were two - a very old one and a brand new one. You can guess the rest.

Both were broken down and the guy had to walk?

[DonkeyApple]

g3org3y said:

Sheepshanks said:

Tannedbaldhead said:

But in 2012 I was surveying multiple properties on a large country estate. Was having a terrible time with grounding the exhaust of my Mercedes E Class on the high crowns of many of the single tracks and was offered the Game Keeper's hack, a 13 year old Subaru Forrester, the next day.
The next morning instead of the Scooby I was given the Lord Of The Manor's hack, a brand new FFRR for the day. It was black, shiney and had the most gorgeous cream leather interior.
I loved it and totally get the appeal. That said it was bloody huge and an absolute liability in the environment of tight single track roads and dirt tracks up to farm houses.
After giving it back my Merc felt distinctly ordinary.

It may well be made up but I read a story along those lines where the guy was told “take the RangeRover”. But there were two - a very old one and a brand new one. You can guess the rest.

Both were broken down and the guy had to walk?

He never found out as he wasn’t insured.

[DailyHack]

Driven a few, they do drive nice in a wallowy kind of way, closest thing to driving a Cathedral.

They are tainted unfortunately with a terrible social image so for that reason alone I wouldn't run one, and I am a tight bd so wouldn't want to keep filling one up, but I do see their appeal.