On a good note, Vic's new car is...
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... simply awesome 
My earlier stupid beyond stupid escapades were somewhat softened by a trip out into the countryside across to Beverley for tea in Vicki's new Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland.
What a beautiful, big, luxurious, quiet, great to drive car this is ... I love it, and a far far better option than the BM 525 Sport that she nearly bought.
Rubbish pics but you get the idea
Guess which bit Gabby likes best?
My earlier stupid beyond stupid escapades were somewhat softened by a trip out into the countryside across to Beverley for tea in Vicki's new Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland.
What a beautiful, big, luxurious, quiet, great to drive car this is ... I love it, and a far far better option than the BM 525 Sport that she nearly bought.
Rubbish pics but you get the idea
Guess which bit Gabby likes best?
Look forward to seeing it in a couple of weeks.StuB said:
MPG or GPM?
Looks comfortable. How fast does it go Mister?
Hi Stu - how's the new place?Looks comfortable. How fast does it go Mister?
Not too bad, 125 top end and 9 secs to 60 ... although it feels like you could pull a battleship whilst you're doing it. Sit at 70 on the motorway and you feel like you're doing 40 ... one would imagine, hypothetically of course, that at 90 it would feel like 60, with barely a murmur from what is a very smooth diesel lump indeed. Sat at 70 it will give you 27 mpg, although you could very easily get into low teens I would imagine
Hi Marcus
... good to see you at Le Mans, in fact, you are the only other PH face I saw outside of our group except for Willo and his Mosler!Next year I will take more time to go social visiting
I've got one at the moment as someone decided to try thier luck at making it through a red light only to encounter our X5 (which was occupied by the wife & 6 month old child).
Its pretty well kitted out, however is the pedal on the right actually an accelerator or is it a volume control. I only ask as well you press it the noise levels go up but f@ck all else happens. The one we have is the 3 litre CRD.
Its pretty well kitted out, however is the pedal on the right actually an accelerator or is it a volume control. I only ask as well you press it the noise levels go up but f@ck all else happens. The one we have is the 3 litre CRD.
Hobo said:
Its pretty well kitted out, however is the pedal on the right actually an accelerator or is it a volume control. I only ask as well you press it the noise levels go up but f@ck all else happens.
Thats a funny way to put it....The yanks have a long way to go to catch up with the likes of the latest BMW/Audi diesels. That said, doesn't Chrysler use Merc derv lumps?
StuB said:
Hope everyone's ok Mark, sorry to hear about that!
Family are fine which is the only thing that matters. I dread to think what the outcome may have been it they had been in the Porsche.The held up remarkably well. To say someone drove into the driver side door square on at circa 30mpg+, from the inside you couldn't tell it had even been hit (apart from the numberous airbags hanging off all over).
Driver of other car was hauled off by the police, to appear in court at a later date. Only a young kid with a couple of mates. He's lucky to have walked away without injury as the damage to his car was significant.
As for the Jeep. I think when they designed the steering they must have had motorbike riders in mind as prospective purchasers. I only come to this conclusion as when you turn the round thing infront of you it doesn't as such start turning, more just instigates how much the vehicle leans
Can't wait for the return of the X5.
Hobo said:
As for the Jeep. I think when they designed the steering they must have had motorbike riders in mind as prospective purchasers. I only come to this conclusion as when you turn the round thing infront of you it doesn't as such start turning, more just instigates how much the vehicle leans
In it's defense:
a) It's American (see what I did with the spelling there
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b) I'd guess we paid about £15 Grand less than your X5 would have been!
Ok, it isn't the fastest, best handling truck out there, but Vic absolutely loves it, and I have to say, so do I
Glad to hear no-one was hurt Mark.
a) It's American (see what I did with the spelling there
)b) I'd guess we paid about £15 Grand less than your X5 would have been!
Ok, it isn't the fastest, best handling truck out there, but Vic absolutely loves it, and I have to say, so do I
Glad to hear no-one was hurt Mark.
Edited by burriana on Sunday 28th October 08:41
To be honest, once you get it up to speed its ok. Its just round town that its a bit of a pain.
Well kitted out inside (well apart from the hideous coloured interior ours has), although like the X5 why can't you use postcodes in the Satnav ? Its a pain having to type street names, etc, in when 6 or 7 digits should do it all.
Oh, and how warm do the seats get. Jees.
Well kitted out inside (well apart from the hideous coloured interior ours has), although like the X5 why can't you use postcodes in the Satnav ? Its a pain having to type street names, etc, in when 6 or 7 digits should do it all.
Oh, and how warm do the seats get. Jees.
Hobo said:
why can't you use postcodes in the Satnav ? Its a pain having to type street names, etc, in when 6 or 7 digits should do it all.
oh a right royal pain in the ass. I put it down to them putting in the cheapest system they could, which flies in the face of all the other really good stuff the car has.Gassing Station | Yorkshire | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff