both around the same sort of price £31 - £33k for the HSE

but which one would be better?

TDV8 66,000 miles
TDV6 25,000 miles


all thoughts welcome?

Last edited by GroupNGC8 on Tue Apr 06 2010 8:21pm. Edited 1 time in total

It really depends what each vehicle has done in its life...a TDV8 with 66000 miles of heavy towing and off road work would probably be best avoided on the other hand if both have led a sheltered life and have a FSH then there has to be IMO more fun in the TDV8

tdv8

TDV8 all the way mate. The V6 sounds like a tractor when idling and there's nothing like the surge of the V8 when you're driving.

Heart over head every time for me.

Jonathan Jaguar XKR Convertible
MY 2012 Range Rover Sport TDV6 Autobiography in Fujian White....Mmmmmmm
Range Rover Evoque 2.2 Prestige in white - gone
Porsche Boxster S White with lots of extras! Gone
Lotus Elise 2011 Touring for sunny days - gone!

Previously....
RRS TDV8 Black 57 Plate
645ci
Jag XKR Convertible (my wife still loves this car!)
BMW 530i
BMW 328i (I loved this car)
Golf R32

The v6 is adequate, if you want a car that goes like a sports car....buy a sports car!.

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Jonathan"The V6 sounds like a tractor when idling

really i think you must have a hearing defect...

TDv8 is far superior in performance, but as Scott says the TDv6 does okay if you are after a 4x4 not a sports saloon.. and no it does not idle like a tractor, but then again it does not have the V8 rumble..

Cheers Another Pommie Bar Steward down under

MY20 Defender 110 SE P400 Eiger/Ebony
MY10 3.0 RRS TDv6 Fuji/Ebony/Anigre

You could always get the TDV6 remapped to improve performance.

How many miles a year will you do? If you do a really low mileage it might be worth getting the TDV8 as the mileage will balance out over the years. WINNER - 2009 ‘Just Doing What It’s Designed To Do’ Award

2010 TDV8 HSE Galway Green - Adaptive Cruise - Sunroof - Privacy Glass - 5 Spoke Alloys
2009 TDV6 3.0 HSE Buckingham Blue - GONE

Well we've finally done it!

Found a very very tidy, 2007 RRS. After reading the comments regarding the V6 and V8 we bought a
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V8 with 40,000miles, 1 owner, FSH, side steps & privacy glass

We pick it up next week and I'll let you know how we get on.

It seems a long time since September 2009 when I first started looking

Cheers
Rob

Last edited by GroupNGC8 on Tue Mar 23 2010 5:57pm. Edited 1 time in total

Well done!!

Cheers

(bloody hell that was a quick reply..............)

I too have an interest as I get my V8 this Friday thats why I'm stalking you

At last our RRS TDV8 HSE has arrived...

dealer delivered it to the door today.

Very helpful people at the dealership, but lets hope we don't see them for 12 months!



I'll get some pictures hosted when its clean..

Cheers
Rob

No brainer, TDV8. The 2.7 V6 just doesn't have it. 2010MY Land Rover Freelander 2 HSE
Santorini Black with Ebony Napoli Leather

TDV6 3.0 chipped, only way to go  purple people eater

There are no good days, just some days that are not as bad as others!


Gone RR 4.0 P38 Autobiography MY99 Red ( money pit)
Gone RRS MY06 2.7TDV6 HSE Rimini Red
Gone RRS MY10 3.0TDV6 HSE Bali Blue with lots of bits (never grew to love it)
Here Now - 3.6 TDV8 FFRR OVERFINCH Stornoway Grey - loving it x
My work car Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDci Zetec auto Estate in Silver

purple people eater wrote:

TDV6 3.0 chipped, only way to go

Sorry too late we've bought the V8

Well we've had the car a whole week now. I spent 4 hours washing and polishing to get it up to my idea of clean and I'm still not totally happy, although the car was handed over immaculately by the dealer i have to point out.

I have found 3 stone chips on the entire car and two very small marks on one of the alloys. Amazing for a 3 year old car and definitely 1 very very careful owner. Not like some RRS we saw during the 6 month hunt.

I am still lost to understand how people can treat 60k cars so badly.

Anyway the car drives superbly and is absolutely effortless. The V8 growls nicely although it does sound a little gruff on tickover after a drive. but at cold it purrs very well indeed.

Here's to next weekend and some more polishing and tinkering

that reminds me - sill plates - i need sill plates and maybe a K&N Air filter !

Glad I joined the forum, it helped a lot with with information to influence my final decision.

Cheers All
Rob RRS TDV8 HSE Santorini Black / Ebony Leather
Audi A4 177 Black Edition for the daily grind
Subaru Impreza STi Version 5 Type RA for the weekend
RRS TDV8 HSE - Java Black / Alpaca Leather for the other half (now gone sadly - erm not the wife the car!)