EX-X5 - there is a difference in pushing your vehicle to test the extremes and doing what you know the vehicle can do. Very few owners of a £45k car would risked serious damage, but that doesn't mean they are not doing proper offroading. There is a certain pleasure giving 2 fingers to people who knock RRS owners for not using them offroad. I've been to events where little Suzukis run around at great speed and get damaged - fun yes but also dangerous. I would like to be known as a driver who knows his cars capabilities and will push it but not cross the line. 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Kaine wrote:

personally I'm not going to go and throw my RRS around to break it (dents etc) however some do come close to this (namely VA) - for any more serious stuff then you really need a less expensive tool - this I can agree

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Kaine - no! I didnt mean to provoke anyone. I would never 'state' anything, I really am not such a wonker(!) Sorry about the way I phrased my post. For the record that was simply an opinion

VA - fair play, your comments there seem well informed, I see ur point and agree with you.

Goes back to my post about the GS dakar and the CRF450. Yes, you can have fun on the former (Without going into detail about what I do, I was recently on a shoot where i was asked to ride the dakar at a sand track - good fun!,.... but (to me at least) this is NOT a proper 'weapon'. Where a CRF can rip your arms off under acceleration, clear huge doubles, rail axle deep rutted turns and all the rest.

I would NOT doubt that the RRS has off road pedigree, and IS capable off road. Just seems sometimes people maybe get a little carried away thinking their behind the wheel of some fire breathing Bowler type vehicle. You're NOT guys! You are driving a very refined, luxurious, smooth riding, stylish, £50k 4x4 THAT IS ALSO capable of 'light' off road work (practically - given we all agree nobody want to bend one of these things!)

Fair play to you boys that take the cars off road but i didn't buy my RRS for that and can't spend the sort of moneys to play in the mud


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my sentiments entirely....

yeah, but Jay's RRS doesn't even go on the road either so he's talking out of his arse

Kaine wrote:

yeah, but Jay's RRS doesn't even go on the road either so he's talking out of his arse

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Well said Kaine! Jay's idea of going off road is anal sex!  2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Very Annoyed wrote:

Well said Kaine! Jay's idea of going off road is anal sex!

getting bogged down in sh*t is a term used by offroaders jay not what you think it is  

EX-X5! wrote:

my sentiments entirely....

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Very Annoyed wrote:

EX-X5! wrote:

my sentiments entirely....

Happy now Lee?

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Very Annoyed wrote:

Well said Kaine! Jay's idea of going off road is anal sex!

Kaine wrote:

yeah, but Jay's RRS doesn't even go on the road either so he's talking out of his arse

Look if i had as much time off w**k as you lot and weekends off then may be i'd have more miles on my RRS but i do so there

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Well said Kaine! Jay's idea of going off road is anal sex!

Never look at it like that thanks VA! Next time the boys ask what i got up to last night i can tell them i did a bit of late night off roding  RRS TDV6 Gone but still around
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What's wrong with taking your RRS offroad, it was designed to be taken there from day one. Mine has and so did my FFRR TD6 before it and the Freelander before that. I also have a Defender that I don't mind bashing a bit, that was why I bought it in the first place. You don't have to take your RRS into stupid places and risk it, there are plenty of offroad sites that have beginners routes if you "just want to see what she'll do" in the dirt. Smarticus and myself took a group of D3 owners on an offroading weekend in the North East in June, they had a great time, did some quite amazing things in their cars (one of which was only a couple of weeks old!) that they thought they would never ever do and nobody did any damage except me when I reversed rather rapidly into a dry stane dyke and bent the rear nearside quarter of my Defender..................  2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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