Watch Harry's video to see how he gets along with his current hybrid [see what I did there?] which has far less fully electric range than this new model. He averages 63mpg over the, I think, 8000 miles its covered so far. He is impressed and so am I. In fact I'm amazed and the new one on the same or similar duty cycle should do much better due to bigger battery.
I think it’s fair to say the target audience of £150k cars already have several very nice houses
When I bought my first Range Rover, in 1986, you could actually buy a nice house outright for the same money. Judging by that measure, this new one is not badly priced. Unfortunately even so, my income hasn't kept up and there's no way I could justify this model and can hardly do so for a nice spec Defender.
Or if not in the luxury band Korean
Face it, 90% of users don't do that 90% of the time. The point is that like the safety equipment on board, you may only need the capability once or twice, but you wouldn't say about the expensive safety systems, 'what's the point'. If they have the money to spare, they like the vehicle and they can afford it, why not?
When you say better built, mate works in a bodyshop and when you actually work on one he says the amount of stuff that's an afterthought, added on brackets and number of self tappers says otherwise.
I only kept my 2004 Range Rover for three years but it was the best built and most reliable car I have ever owned. Not a single thing was wrong with it from day one to sale day [although I expected the front diff to fail at any time, because they all did eventually]. Far better built that my '98 Land Cruiser which needed quite a few things sorted under warranty, although it served me well for 20 years with not too many issues. The RR was based very much on the BMW X5 and most of its mechanicals [including that front differential] and electrics were lifted straight from the X5. I had the X5 prior to the Range Rover for two years and that had to be recovered to the dealer three times due to electrical faults. They had sorted that by the time the RR was built, but not the common front diff design. The front diff was actually an in-house BMW unit with the brand moulded into its case.
And there was me thinking you weren`t allowed to fight those things any more......
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Damn why you calling me out like this. The house may have gates and we have a Range rover but it is 15 years old and everyone is a thieving barsteward round here.Yup, I'd buy a classic Range Rover re-engineered to modern standards by these guys:
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Far more tasteful, and I wouldn't get mistaken for a drug baron or the sort of person who lives in a house with gates on the entrance.
Not quite but the farm is by a main road and a camp of Traveller have set up camp down the road. Busy enough that the cat almost got ran over.You're allowed gates if you have a driveway that is at least 1/4 mile long
I went for a walk last Sunday and that was parked on a driveway about a mile from my house , right in the sticks
I thought that these were non-plug-in mild hybrids and seldom ran on pure electric. If so, then usually the best you should expect is to gain about 4 or 5 mpg over the non hybrid variant.
That’s the kind of motor that the 4ft tall hard man with 1” pecker drives
You can’t afford a new RR! You’ve some rubber to buy for your telescopic first!!
