I like how your RRS matches your front door and the FL2 matches the garage door!  2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Les, you are mad....................... but have you thought about an ex dealer demo 4.4 TDv8 FFRR or an Evoque? 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Very Annoyed wrote:

I like how your RRS matches your front door and the FL2 matches the garage door!

question is, how does he passes the cars through that narrow little garage door!?  http://paulomartinsphotography.tumblr.com

Well April came but the March madness continued

Now a non RRS sPort owner.

15 years of Landrover ownership ended

Only went out to buy a tin of paint

3 years virtually to the day, 32,000 trouble free miles.

Highs - Grin factor everyday, highly capable, touring, house removals, off roading, camping, towing, and the snow.

Lows- Coin scratches after 2 weeks ownership, paint, only have to look at it and a scratch appears, low mpg, combined with stat nav system that takes the longest roundabout route to destination does not help the costs either.

Overall- Would I have another probably not.

Great vechicle and a heart wrenching decision to sell, never been so depressed about a new car coming, but never quite happy with the image that it created in other peoples minds. Would think a step sideways to Disco land, much more practical with kids much more internal space, though the FFRR could be another option.

Never say never though with the sport

I once got offered one as a courtesy car because I wasn't a "genuine prospect" for a V8 and told them I'd rather go home on the train
If you want to go downmarket there are much better 4x4 options in the Audi stable. MY2011 HSE Santorini/Ivory/Piano Black/Privacy Glass/TV .Sadly gone.
Audi A5 Sportback Black Edition 3.0 tdi quattro S Line

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If you want to go downmarket there are much better 4x4 options in the Audi stable.

such as

Will keep this car for about a year, one would hope but looking to another 4x4 then, hadn't considered an Audi, probably due to their interiors of the ones I have seen

I wasn't sure about what I was going to get as my 2.7 SE contract was coming to an end and looked at both the RS4 and Q5 as about the only realistic alternatives but the costs were so close once I specced them up to my SE I decided to get another RRS. MY2011 HSE Santorini/Ivory/Piano Black/Privacy Glass/TV .Sadly gone.
Audi A5 Sportback Black Edition 3.0 tdi quattro S Line

I'l have a look

So what did you get Lespes? You are now a non LR owner?

Finest German engineering

Merc E280cdi Est Advantgarde

My first German car

Decided any other more economical 4x4 would lead to many direct negative comparisons leaving me even more frustrated.

Computer readout indicating 42 mpg at moment over 300 miles mixed driving something never to be seen on a Sport

Sold SWMBO's D3 last Feb and the replacement is on order, couldn't get a Merc as ILs have 2 and rave about them. It's just not worth the grief. 520d SE Touring auto with toys.

lespes wrote:

Finest German engineering

Merc E280cdi Est Advantgarde

My first German car

Decided any other more economical 4x4 would lead to many direct negative comparisons leaving me even more frustrated.

Computer readout indicating 42 mpg at moment over 300 miles mixed driving something never to be seen on a Sport

I've had three E's,1 petrol and 2 diesels,the E320 was superb until the engine started playing up.

 MY2011 HSE Santorini/Ivory/Piano Black/Privacy Glass/TV .Sadly gone.
Audi A5 Sportback Black Edition 3.0 tdi quattro S Line

really sorry but that merc does not compare to a RRS! SVR 2018 in Santorini Black.

Yep I know

But what does

Pure economics looking to do 15-20k miles a year more.

At the moment the step down is not so bad