Do you think Range Rovers are tacky?

[Anonymous]

The average income of a Land Rover owner (all models) is $450k.

[Anonymous]

I associate them with Paul Manafort sleaze and obnoxious Arabs.

[Anonymous]

If the Land Rover brand seems ubiquitous to you, that says more about your high income environment than reality. LR is a low-production luxury brand comparatively. Worldwide, Mercedes produces about $2.3 million cars annually, BMW about $2 million, and Land Rover about 440,000.

Of the 440,000 vehicles Land Rover produces for the worldwide market annually, only about 75,000 are sold in the USA.

If you live in the wealthiest parts of the country, you will encounter very expensive products.

[Anonymous]

To compare, Honda produces about 5.5 million cars and Toyota 10 million annually

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the Land Rover brand seems ubiquitous to you, that says more about your high income environment than reality. LR is a low-production luxury brand comparatively. Worldwide, Mercedes produces about $2.3 million cars annually, BMW about $2 million, and Land Rover about 440,000.

Of the 440,000 vehicles Land Rover produces for the worldwide market annually, only about 75,000 are sold in the USA.

If you live in the wealthiest parts of the country, you will encounter very expensive products.

Production is only 440,000 because the factory probably can't source enough components like wiring harnesses, electrical relays, window motors, dash modules, coolant temperature sensors, crankcase position sensors, O2 sensors and door lock actuators - because all that extra parts production is going into replacement parts for existing vehicles instead of into new production vehicles.

Wife had a 2015 Range Rover. Told her not to buy it, but she wanted it.

All the items above needed replacing before it hit 20,000 miles. Yes, all under warranty of course, but in two years of owning that POS it was in the dealership for a total of about 7 weeks.

Absolute garbage. Drunken Russians probably make better cars than Range Rovers. It's a wonder how they even stay in business with all the warranty work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An old school, barebones Land Rover with the benchseats will drive over anything. Great if you own a big piece of land in the countryside or traverse awful washed out roads. Well built too, if maintained regularly.

The newer luxury models you see cruising around NW DC and Bethesda are awful mommy-money pits.

Land Rovers aren’t Range Rovers.

As for OP, they’re unnecessary but not nearly as much of a douchecanoe as a G-Wagon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don't all of you Honda and Toyota owners start a super thread where you can bash all of the cars you hate and think are wastes of money, and then have Jeff sticky it for you?

Interesting that someone suggested getting that Mercedes in this thread when just a couple of weeks ago, there was a thread bashing Mercedes and Mercedes owners for being stupid and new money.

Because according to DCUM you should not spend money on anything except education. Everything else is waste and show off and low class.
But mostly low class.
Class.
It's all about class here.

So, I used to drive this girl to school every day. Her parents each had a newish Mercedes SUV. One of the reasons I was driving her was that one car or another was forever breaking down and when it did, it was in the shop for a few weeks. Neither parent worked. So maybe it wasn’t much disruption to their lives. But “I” am busy. I would go nuts if I had to go without my car for a week or more. Is the luxury or status worth that? Not to me.

[Anonymous]

Tacky....no

Horrible on gas.....yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the Land Rover brand seems ubiquitous to you, that says more about your high income environment than reality. LR is a low-production luxury brand comparatively. Worldwide, Mercedes produces about $2.3 million cars annually, BMW about $2 million, and Land Rover about 440,000.

Of the 440,000 vehicles Land Rover produces for the worldwide market annually, only about 75,000 are sold in the USA.

If you live in the wealthiest parts of the country, you will encounter very expensive products.

Production is only 440,000 because the factory probably can't source enough components like wiring harnesses, electrical relays, window motors, dash modules, coolant temperature sensors, crankcase position sensors, O2 sensors and door lock actuators - because all that extra parts production is going into replacement parts for existing vehicles instead of into new production vehicles.

Wife had a 2015 Range Rover. Told her not to buy it, but she wanted it.

All the items above needed replacing before it hit 20,000 miles. Yes, all under warranty of course, but in two years of owning that POS it was in the dealership for a total of about 7 weeks.

Absolute garbage. Drunken Russians probably make better cars than Range Rovers. It's a wonder how they even stay in business with all the warranty work.

What does your wife drive now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised people like Ranges so much considering the anti-indian sentiment that pervades dcum and americans in general.

you guys know they are a wholly owned subsidiary of an indian car company, right?

For real. WTH are you all going on about ... it’s still a british multinational car company. Which itself is owned by an Indian car company. Or did you also think that your Chrysler became a German car back when Mercedes bought them?

[Anonymous]

I wish I could buy one just for the pleasure of knowing you all are blowing a gasket over my “worst caliber of people”.

If it ticks your snotty noses off, all the better. Not that I could hear your green headed griping and tsk tsk-ing as I’d be enjoying such a smooth, quiet, plush ride ahhh..

Keep twisting yourselves up into jealous little pretzels while I enjoy my massage ( the Velar has massaging seats).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the Land Rover brand seems ubiquitous to you, that says more about your high income environment than reality. LR is a low-production luxury brand comparatively. Worldwide, Mercedes produces about $2.3 million cars annually, BMW about $2 million, and Land Rover about 440,000.

Of the 440,000 vehicles Land Rover produces for the worldwide market annually, only about 75,000 are sold in the USA.

If you live in the wealthiest parts of the country, you will encounter very expensive products.

Production is only 440,000 because the factory probably can't source enough components like wiring harnesses, electrical relays, window motors, dash modules, coolant temperature sensors, crankcase position sensors, O2 sensors and door lock actuators - because all that extra parts production is going into replacement parts for existing vehicles instead of into new production vehicles.

Wife had a 2015 Range Rover. Told her not to buy it, but she wanted it.

All the items above needed replacing before it hit 20,000 miles. Yes, all under warranty of course, but in two years of owning that POS it was in the dealership for a total of about 7 weeks.

Absolute garbage. Drunken Russians probably make better cars than Range Rovers. It's a wonder how they even stay in business with all the warranty work.

What does your wife drive now?

2018 Toyota Highlander.

Superior vehicle in every metric.

[Anonymous]

I think they are. Much like the hummer used to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg again?? How can a car be tacky?

Most things are the pearl clutcher set

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish I could buy one just for the pleasure of knowing you all are blowing a gasket over my “worst caliber of people”.

If it ticks your snotty noses off, all the better. Not that I could hear your green headed griping and tsk tsk-ing as I’d be enjoying such a smooth, quiet, plush ride ahhh..

Keep twisting yourselves up into jealous little pretzels while I enjoy my massage ( the Velar has massaging seats).

The only blowing gaskets will be the ones on the engine cylinder heads on those hunks of crap.