Set the take me home to somewhere near home. My current car takes me to a nearby petrol station. Solves that issue!

eddkawasaki wrote:

philmw wrote:

Thanks Mark. Great report.

I've never programmed the Take Me Home thing in any of my cars, and if I did, wouldn't put my address it - the last thing I would want some scrote who nicked my car to know is where I live!

Mine is programmed to take them to the police station closest to my house! That way if I want to use it it gets me somewhere near home and I know my way from there but takes the aforementioned scrote where he needs to go!

 

So as well as enjoying the Lincolnshire Air Heritage Museum in Spilsby, today I've been exploring what can only be called hooligan mode with this car.

Selecting Dynamic Chassis Mode, Sport Gearbox Mode and Sports Exhaust On pushes the car into another dimension. The car holds lower gears much longer and the handling is even tighter. Always in the right gear to accelerate out of a corner and storm away.

The best bit is yet to come: the noise from the exhaust seems even more lively in this mode. On the overrun, there's banging and crackling through the exhaust when you lift your right foot. Simply glorious.

It's difficult to think of a more complete and versatile car for everyday driving enjoyment than this. Mark

SVR in Estoril Blue

F Type Jaguar has the same engine and exhaust note switching............ and soon it will be AWD too! I wonder if there will be a F-Pace RS with the same engine? 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

Love the write-up Mark; my SVR starts its build today!!!

Can't wait.... not long to go now...... sorry Viper! SOLD - 15 plate Estoril SVR

SOLD - 64 plate Aleutian Silver Supercharged

SOLD - 63 plate Corris SDV6 Autobiography

 2016 bmw x5 40d m-sport space grey
2015 bmw 335i m-sport touring mineral grey/coral interior looking to change again .
Gone HSE SDV6 Dynamic indus silver, santorini contrast roof,panoramic roof,red brakes,privacy,climate front seats,tow bar great car enjoyed it ����
Gone my10 3.0 tdv6 Bali blue/ivory 5 years 24k no problems great car will be missed

Tim in Scotland wrote:

Great write up Mark. Talking of biase of motoring journalists, you can bet your bottom dollar that when What Car? road tests it against a similar Porsche and BMW the SVR will come last no matter how good it is. It seems that What Car? cannot give any Land Rover product a decent constructive review. Their review will go something like "Land Rover supplied us with a car on road tyres and therefore it couldn't get through our test farm gate onto the field" They will of course conveniently forget that neither the Porsche or the BMW will get into the field on the tyres that are fitted as OEM either! LR should give one to Clarkson to play with for a week!

Who gives a what Whatcar think...bring on EVO magazine the real mens motoring mag

Dickie wrote:

Love the write-up Mark; my SVR starts its build today!!!

Can't wait.... not long to go now...... sorry Viper!

Great news Dickie, will be good to have more than one opinion to show I'm not talking from under my hat. I think Sally's is happening around now too. Mark

SVR in Estoril Blue

Mark_N is the new Clarkson (the good bits) - you heard it here first.

Also, see Autocar (not written by Mark_N):
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/land-r...svr-review
and I quote:
"Should I buy one?: You should"

Ok then!

I wish Autocar was my wife.  L405 P400e Autobiography (MY2020)... Silicon Silver / Espresso
RRS TDV6 HSE Lux (MY2011)... Nara Bronze / Arabica - now gone!

Some may have seen it already but the review of the SVR on Harry's Garage on You Tube is pretty good. Sorry no link. HSE Black - Orkney Grey, ivory leather, privacy glass, tow bar. GBNF - Discover 4 XS Nara Bronze (11); Discovery 3 HSE, Zermatt Silver (57); Discovery 3 HSE, Buckingham Blue (55); Volvo V70 Titanium SE (53); Audi A4 1.9 TDI SE, Denim Blue (02); Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6, Black (99-V); VW Corrado VR6, Red (92-K); Toyota MR2, Racing Green (94-M); Nissan Sunny GTI, Red (92-K); Mk1 Toyota MR2 T-bar, Red (89-G); Citroen AX GT, Red (87-E); Talbot Horizon, Snot Green (83-A, I think).

Sadly, looks like Harry's video has been pulled for some reason which is a pity as it gives/gave a good impression of what the car is like.

I'm close to 1000 miles now with trips to Sussex next week and North Wales next weekend to do some serious driving ending with a visit to the Defender Celebration Exhibition in Solihull on Monday. The two petrolheads I am going with are much more interested in seeing this car than what would be the other new-kid-on-the-block for them, a 991 GT3. Easy to see how I will have done more than 2000 miles in the first month.

The car continues to thrill, the noise, the stepped changes from quiet and refined to rabid dog.

I'm finding that overtaking on less than full size roads requires some care because of the car's size. Previously, I've never found it an issue with a 911 or a Subaru and with my Evoque, I didn't have the power anyway, but now I do. I've had one or two instances where the car I'm overtaking has been clearly intimidated by the size and noise of the thing, not to mention its rapid acceleration, so some consideration is called for.

The stereo continues to impress, tried sitting in the back and the sound quality is just excellent, by far the best I have ever heard in a car, space filling, rock solid image.

I've finalised the source too and am using a current generation 64Gb iPod touch loaded with Apple lossless files, about 2100 of them by the time you've deleted apps you don't need which should be enough to keep me entertained. The sound quality is clearly better with lossless than with MP3, the sense of ambience extraordinary. Mark

SVR in Estoril Blue

I wonder if those you have been overtaking initially think that they are being overtaken by a motorbike with the exhaust in dynamic mode and then realise it is a very large car as you pass? 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

SVO's latest work:

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Have they merged with the left overs department already?

I had a spare day today so I have been out and about at the main dealers looking at all the options, exterior colours and different interior combinations etc. On my travels came across an SVR in Estoril blue and must say it looked absolutely stunning in the showroom. I kept walking round and round it until I was dizzy, think the salesman thought I was crackers

 MY16 AUTOBIOGRAPHY Indus silver with some toys

2012 3.0 SDV6 Luxury gone, but a great motor