Luxurious Leather-Clad Snow and Mud Plough?

[Gorvid]

Hello.

I've been hankering after a barge of waft-esque ability, you know?

Something to cruise up and down the country in, surrounded by leather and air-con and special buttons. Etc.

But the last few years (plus most of the time when the weather is foul) I've realised I massively miss my old rattly 4x4 to plough up ice covered lanes and through slurry fields.

So...

I was wondering...

If you wanted to combine motorway wafting ability with ACTUAL snow and ice and mud performance....IN ONE VEHICLE what would you pick?

Gotta be cheap, gotta be under £5000.

Ideas?

[drivin_me_nuts]

A Cherokee of some kind?

Enough cow for even the most rabid leatherman. Goes offroad easily, pretty much indestructable in some formats.

[Nick3point2]

Audi RS2 avant

[Gruber]

Either an A8 / S8 or a Grand Cherokee, depending on whether waft or wade is most important.

[Gruber]

Nick3point2 said:

Audi RS2 avant

Under £5k??

[astroarcadia]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3315430.htm

[Chapppers]

astroarcadia said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3315430.htm

:O What's the catch?!?!?

[astroarcadia]

Chapppers said:

:O What's the catch?!?!?

A lot of car for the money. High miles but just run in for a Subaru.

[Gruber]

astroarcadia said:

Chapppers said:

:O What's the catch?!?!?

A lot of car for the money. High miles but just run in for a Subaru.

But is it a wafter barge?

Very nice though. And awesome VFM.

[astroarcadia]

Granted not barge like compared to an old Merc or suchlike, it is a good compromise with four wheel drive.

[scrwright]

WJ (99-04) Grand Cherokee, leather armchair which is happy doing motorway miles or playing in the mud. Mine has done 75k miles in the last 2 years and is at 225k miles in total, no breakdowns so far (oh dear, said it now) You can get good ones from £2000, stick LPG on it for another grand, jobs a good-un. Avoid the diesels though, and if going LPG stick with the 4l straight 6, v8s have head issues on LPG

[martin84]

scrwright said:

WJ (99-04) Grand Cherokee, leather armchair which is happy doing motorway miles or playing in the mud. Mine has done 75k miles in the last 2 years and is at 225k miles in total, no breakdowns so far (oh dear, said it now) You can get good ones from £2000, stick LPG on it for another grand, jobs a good-un. Avoid the diesels though, and if going LPG stick with the 4l straight 6, v8s have head issues on LPG

Want one of those!!!

[Chapppers]

astroarcadia said:

Granted not barge like compared to an old Merc or suchlike, it is a good compromise with four wheel drive.

Correct me if I'm being Naive, but could you make one sound like a 911 with the correct exhaust? What's the tax like. I imagine that's the killer for most people.

[Tommy Saxondale]

this thread has P38 written all over it!

[scrwright]

Tommy Saxondale said:

this thread has P38 written all over it!

Only if you like the hard shoulder of the motorway

[sawman]

Gorvid said:

Hello.

I've been hankering after a barge of waft-esque ability, you know?

Something to cruise up and down the country in, surrounded by leather and air-con and special buttons. Etc.

But the last few years (plus most of the time when the weather is foul) I've realised I massively miss my old rattly 4x4 to plough up ice covered lanes and through slurry fields.

So...

I was wondering...

If you wanted to combine motorway wafting ability with ACTUAL snow and ice and mud performance....IN ONE VEHICLE what would you pick?

Gotta be cheap, gotta be under £5000.

Ideas?

I could let you have my 2003 cherokee, 3.7 V6, black with beige leather for that kind of cash

[anonymous-user]

Leather, wood, 7 seats, genuine off road ability, I'd have it if I had £5k burning a hole in my pocket, only run in at 50-odd thousand miles.

I give you the LWB Nissan Patrol http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3385097.htm

[Major Fallout]

Tommy Saxondale said:

this thread has P38 written all over it!

Exactly what I was thinking!

[Tommy Saxondale]

scrwright said:

Only if you like the hard shoulder of the motorway

they're not that bad u big jessie! get a coil sprung converted one with a diesel or a 4.0 V8 rather than the 4.6 and you're laughing, fits the bill perfectly!

[Tommy Saxondale]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-Range-Rover-2...

drool, this one is lovely if you can live with derv power. well looked after too