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BKHK Member Since: 05 May 2008 Location: Perth Posts: 1941 |
I was in a similar frame of mind. There is only 2 of us in the house and we have recently downsized house to an inner suburb close to the city with less garage and parking.
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Mon Jun 19 2017 9:35pm |
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Tim in Scotland Member Since: 30 May 2005 Location: Driving along in my automobile Posts: 17476 |
RRSNewbie............. I nearly lost the RRS to a deer 4 weeks ago on the Rest and Be Thankful, actually there are better roads for a blast than that one. (UN)fortunately for Bambi it came off worst - silly thing bounced onto the road, must have had nail polish on its hooves as it lost its footing and slipped, was clipped by an Astra, went under a Land Rover 90 (max flat out downhill with wind assistance 50mph) diesel and then I ran it over too, closely followed by a biker who must have had lightening quick reactions as he was starting to get power on to overtake me and the 90 on the uphill and managed to swerve into the nearside and miss the flying carcass (but I bet he had skid marks inside his leathers.........) he wisely then stuck behind me until we passed the crest and were on the level bit before the downhill to Butterbridge....... I'm off-roading the RRS on the land just off to the NE of the Rest this coming Sunday.Outwith the silly season (May to September when there are way too many coaches, caravaners and oldies out for a Sunday drive at 40mph) the A82 up the west side of Loch Lomond and from Tyndrum across Rannoch Moor to Glencoe Village are my favourite roads for a blast, the A84 Callander to Tyndrum section is pretty good too but at this time of the year there are speed restrictions of 50mph all along that section to slow down the bikers and there are unmarked police speed traps and mobile speed traps on police unmarked superbikes........... I know because I sometimes have to go in my voluntary paramedic function and help scrape up the remains of some poor biker who has found out the hard way that they are not speedproof and at high speed even good leathers will not stop you getting ripped to shreds if you come off on the all weather surface sections............. Another cracker is a short run from the A82 turn off to Garelochead on the A817 over the moors to Faslane Navy Base - it was one of Clarksons roads you have to drive before you die! I think an i3 or a Zoe would run out of charge though on all of those roads!
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Mon Jun 19 2017 9:38pm |
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RRS-Si Member Since: 24 May 2017 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 85 |
Poor old deer.... had a rough ending....
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Mon Jun 19 2017 10:17pm |
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crocs Member Since: 22 Jan 2017 Location: Ayrshire Posts: 115 |
Well, I can vouch for the ATPC. Cut our paddocks yesterday with 17MY pulling a flail mower. ATPC is great as a low speed cruise control. |
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Tue Jun 20 2017 9:49am |
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Tim in Scotland Member Since: 30 May 2005 Location: Driving along in my automobile Posts: 17476 |
I live off a farm lane and the farmer who lives at the end of the lane has a Cayenne Diesel for Monday to Saturday farm work and a FFRR S/C for shopping and going to church. Looks really strange to see a Cayenne on ATR tyres and caked in mud driving across ploughed fields and parked up in a meadow surrounded by livestock being fed from the boot......... seems much more incongruous than it would if he used the FFRR! But I can vouch for the fact that a Cayenne really is quite a good offroad vehicle, as good as any of the recent Land Rovers, just seems very weird to see one actually going offroad whereas we take it for granted that it isn't at all weird to take a Range Rover offroad 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Tue Jun 20 2017 11:16am |
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JOCK55 Member Since: 01 Sep 2015 Location: INVERNESS Posts: 415 |
Tim, I was going to suggest you try a Porsche Cayenne, but it sounds as if you have already considered one. I had a Cayenne S Platinum before I bought the RRS. It was a truly superb vehicle and was really well built. My only problem and the reason for sale was with the one and only dealer north of Edinburgh. Their service was abysmal. However, with you residing a little closer to the urban centres of Scotland, this should not bother you too much. Have you driven your neighbours vehicle at all?
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Tue Jun 20 2017 2:44pm |
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Tim in Scotland Member Since: 30 May 2005 Location: Driving along in my automobile Posts: 17476 |
Jock, my 3rd, 4th and 5th cars were an MG Metro followed by 2 MG Maestro 2.0ltrs. The 2.0lt Maestro was very underrated, I replaced the 2nd Maestro with a Rover 820 fastback (a 4 door coupe not the Coupe) but it was slightly modified with a Supercharger strapped onto the 2.0ltr Rover engine................ used to scare the living daylights out of Golf GTi's and Astra GTE's that were the hot hatches of the day and could blow them so far into the weeds that their owners used to eventually catch up to find our was under the bonnet.......... apart from some much bigger brakes the car was otherwise no different externally to a bog standard 820............. it was a hoot and much better behaved than either the MG Maestro Turbo or the Metro Turbo that had massive turbos to wind up before anything happened! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Tue Jun 20 2017 3:19pm |
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syl Member Since: 10 Mar 2016 Location: Somerset Posts: 412 |
The used SVR vs new Autobiography works out if you're paying cash, but unfortunately the monthly payments less so as the SVR residual value Land Rover allocate to it is a significantly smaller percentage (despite used ones remaining quite well priced) compared to a diesel. The rip off APR on used vehicles from Land Rover doesn't help either, but you can get under 4% if you go elsewhere. |
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Tue Jun 20 2017 3:28pm |
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Tim in Scotland Member Since: 30 May 2005 Location: Driving along in my automobile Posts: 17476 |
Syl, how does the 5.0S/C Autobiography compare on the LR Residual? I imagine that it will be like the SVR and not so good. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Tue Jun 20 2017 4:47pm |
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