Sorry for hijacking this forum but it will break my heart to let my beloved RRS S/C 4.2 V8 car go to the dealers for £41000 (just over 12months old and £58500 new) - please see my post in the For Sale forum, or my listing on eBay below.

£41500 will secure the car but the deal needs to be done by Monday (when dealers are stealing it). They'll put it up for £47995 or somewhere near it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2006-RANGE-ROVER-SPO...dZViewItem

CALL ME QUICK ON 07803-174-614.

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VA - Not going for a new car this time - need to release some money for something else - hence the need to sell!

The car is awesome and we've worked it out that if you're doing about 10,000mls a year the S/C will cost about £14 a week more to fuel than the diesel (V6 version)!

Its a no brainer from a performance point of view and at least £18000 cheaper than a TDV8 which will save you about a tenner a week on fuel over the S/C!!!

Cheers,

Rick. RRS SC
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Yeah but if it's just a tenner a week on fuel thetas around £500 a year whats £500 when you've just spent £62k on a car but this is just me i can see that some people don't see it like that and can spend the money some where else  RRS TDV6 Gone but still around
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That is definately a CHEAP car for someone

Best of luck in selling it Iceman

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Know how you feel Ice man, my 1yr old CLS 500 with 5,000 miles on the clock sold for 38,500 grand to a dealer after costing over sixty new.

Car has now sold - for £40,750.00  RRS SC
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tony wright wrote:

Know how you feel Ice man, my 1yr old CLS 500 with 5,000 miles on the clock sold for 38,500 grand to a dealer after costing over sixty new.

So I shouldn't feel too bad about dropping £6,500 after 13 months and 21,000 miles in a TDv6 then. I reckon your supercharged will have cost about twice as much in fuel and three times as much in depreciation & finance.

V8 diesel - you know it makes sense ..... !

PS collecting my TDv8 at 9.30am on Saturday morning  RRS TDv8 HSE Rimini
Disco 4 TDv6 HSE Ipanema
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Smarticus wrote:

So I shouldn't feel too bad about dropping £6,500 after 13 months and 21,000 miles in a TDv6 then. I reckon your supercharged will have cost about twice as much in fuel and three times as much in depreciation & finance.

V8 diesel - you know it makes sense ..... !

PS collecting my TDv8 at 9.30am on Saturday morning

Good luck, Smarticus! Hope its everything you hoped for and more!

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Go for it Smarticus, good luck with the TDV8.

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Have fun Smarticus, lets here your reports, when you eventually get out of the car. some of my Previous cars
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We should do a "night before you pick up your new car" counselling service here. Its now 4.15am and I can't sleep. Might just be the head cold everyone in the family seems to have developed, the return of the weirdly mild weather outside, or simply the irressistable urge to get up and go get the new car syndrome. Find myself saying over and over, "what time is it", "will they be open yet", "can I set off already", "what have I forgotten", "what might go wrong so when I get there they say - sorry, but you can't have it" ....etc, etc.

Totally reminds me of 2 things. The way an 8 year old feels the night before Christmas, and the way an adult male feels when his wife is 9 months pregnant and the new arrival could be here very soon....

There is a whole range of emotional undertones going on ...... There is a tinge of guilt in here - why am I spending so much on a new car, when I already have a perfectly good one ? Am I doing the right thing, and Worry - will everything be alright ? There's some excitment - what will she be like ? Its a bit like that short walk upstairs with a new girl friend when you are a student. Will she perform. Will I perform. Will it be great, or just good, or really disappointing. Will I respect her afterwards, is the anticipation better than the event, will this spoil a beautiful relationship. Will I regret this.......

Its a bit unnerving that the Landrover website still seems in denial that a TDv8 really exists. I can't comfort myself by going on there and "building" my new car - which is how I managed the anxiety befor picking up the TDv6 last year.... Maybe the TDv8 is all in my imagination and I am going to wake up from a good / bad dream ...?

Pathetic, ain't it. Like only 4 am in the morning can achieve.

Its only a bloody car and loads of money after all ............  RRS TDv8 HSE Rimini
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Defender 90, 200tdi CSW

I've been up most of the night for the head cold reason...but I enjoyed your post. I have so been there!

Good luck today and get some pics posted as soon as possible. Big congrats!  2006 Range Rover Sport TDV6 HSE, Java/Ebony/Cherry, Privacy, Sunroof, PTI, Premium Sound, SatNav, Cold Climate, Tow kit, CarStyle coded grill and vents, Tasmods, Stormers, JE Exhaust, Autobiography badge

Smarticus wrote:

We should do a "night before you pick up your new car" counselling service here. Its now 4.15am and I can't sleep. Might just be the head cold everyone in the family seems to have developed, the return of the weirdly mild weather outside, or simply the irressistable urge to get up and go get the new car syndrome. Find myself saying over and over, "what time is it", "will they be open yet", "can I set off already", "what have I forgotten", "what might go wrong so when I get there they say - sorry, but you can't have it" ....etc, etc.

Totally reminds me of 2 things. The way an 8 year old feels the night before Christmas, and the way an adult male feels when his wife is 9 months pregnant and the new arrival could be here very soon....

There is a whole range of emotional undertones going on ...... There is a tinge of guilt in here - why am I spending so much on a new car, when I already have a perfectly good one ? Am I doing the right thing, and Worry - will everything be alright ? There's some excitment - what will she be like ? Its a bit like that short walk upstairs with a new girl friend when you are a student. Will she perform. Will I perform. Will it be great, or just good, or really disappointing. Will I respect her afterwards, is the anticipation better than the event, will this spoil a beautiful relationship. Will I regret this.......

Its a bit unnerving that the Landrover website still seems in denial that a TDv8 really exists. I can't comfort myself by going on there and "building" my new car - which is how I managed the anxiety befor picking up the TDv6 last year.... Maybe the TDv8 is all in my imagination and I am going to wake up from a good / bad dream ...?

Pathetic, ain't it. Like only 4 am in the morning can achieve.

Its only a bloody car and loads of money after all ............

What a brilliant post - especially for those of us with a long wait still ahead of us. I especially like the analogy of the new girlfriend.

I have all the guilt feelings of spending so much money on top of what I have been riding around in for the past six years - a Suzuki Jimny jeep! As the market value of the Jimny is about £1500, that must be a £50000 upgrade then  Gone - 2008 TDV8, Stornoway Grey, ebony, zabrano trim, TV, Tasmods, mudflaps.