Crash involving transporter full of Range Rovers

[roscozs]

Going to work this morning I spotted an accident on the other carrige way. As I got closer I realised that a car transporter was on its side. Land Rovers and Range Rovers all over the place. Somones going to have an even longer wait for their new car in March.

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/driver-trapped-a...

[clarkmagpie]

I have taken the call when one of ours went over, stressful is not the word!
That's just up the road from our depot so had drivers asking if it was ours.
Thankfully not.

Miracle nobody was killed.

[roscozs]

Yeah looked a mess when I drove past. Can imagine it being a complete nightmare for all involved when a truck tips.

[XDA]

I spotted it this morning as well. Looked very nasty but no serious injuries I don't think! Took about 8 hours to clear.

The transporter appears to have ran into the back of another truck, which was broken down on the hard shoulder. I suspect the transporter driver was asleep or on his phone?

That's probably about £100k of land rovers wrote off. Imagine having to explain that to your boss...

Clarkmagpie - Do you work for ECM?

[Acheron]

The best 4x4xHGVxFar.

[Rubin215]

Glad the driver was okay, but as for the comedy jeeps...

[k-ink]

How do these truckers manage it on a straight road at brain dead speeds. Genius

[clarkmagpie]

XDA-Yeah in the service/breakdown dept.
Pretty interesting and everyday is different.
Such complex machines,

[christofmccracke]

Acheron said:

The best 4x4xHGVxFar.

The best 4x4xHGVxFarce

[GKP]

XDA said:

That's probably about £100k of land rovers wrote off.

Ermm, there was a lorry load of them. I think you've underestimated a tad.

[Conian]

GKP said:

Ermm, there was a lorry load of them. I think you've underestimated a tad.

retail price well over 100k
but cost price probably under 100k

[QuackHandle]

GKP said:

XDA said:

That's probably about £100k of land rovers wrote off.

Ermm, there was a lorry load of them. I think you've underestimated a tad.

Perhaps he meant the build cost?

Edit - 4 minutes late, d'oh

Edited by QuackHandle on Monday 14th February 23:02

[XDA]

GKP said:

Ermm, there was a lorry load of them. I think you've underestimated a tad.

7 to be precise

7 x the price of a range rover.

How much is it then, clever cloggs?

[A.J.M]

XDA said:

7 to be precise

7 x the price of a range rover.

How much is it then, clever cloggs?

Say £70k per range rover then £490,000.

Tad over your price.

[James_N]

k-ink said:

How do these truckers manage it on a straight road at brain dead speeds. Genius

making a cuppa, reading a map, eating lunch, reading a book, watching a movie? who knows!

[sebhaque]

A.J.M said:

Say £70k per range rover then £490,000.

Tad over your price.

As mentioned above, I'm not entirely certain it costs LR £70k to build one Range Rover. Quite a poor business model if it does, no?

[king arthur]

Rubin215 said:

Glad the driver was okay, but as for the comedy jeeps...

What an odd response

[working class]

I worked at land rover Solihull for 11 years. Just before I left I was told that a range rover rolled off the end of the production line at a total cost price of 16k.

[A.J.M]

sebhaque said:

As mentioned above, I'm not entirely certain it costs LR £70k to build one Range Rover. Quite a poor business model if it does, no?

So your suggesting that it costs Landrover only £14.2k roughly to make a range rover? Quite a mark up...
£490k could be dealer price, personally I would go for £35-45k to build as the 4.4 tdv8 and 8 speed gearbox could easily be £7-10k

[working class]

A.J.M said:

So your suggesting that it costs Landrover only £14.2k roughly to make a range rover? Quite a mark up...
£490k could be dealer price, personally I would go for £35-45k to build as the 4.4 tdv8 and 8 speed gearbox could easily be £7-10k

As I said, it was a very well informed production manager that told me that figure, range rover was the big money maker.