Do you think Range Rovers are tacky?

[Anonymous]

Yes. It is dumb to recycle in one breath and then buy a huge gas guzzling car in the other.
We buy the least expensive, used sedan that we can. Every time. The one with the highest rating for safety and for gas efficiency. And we try not to drive it whenever possible, using the train and our own two feet.
But other people think differently and I try not to spend a whole lot of time thinking about people who don't care about the environment and who waste $$.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve driven the Toyota Highlander and think it is an excellent car. I’d be happy to have one. But better than a RR sport in every metric?

When is the last time a Highlander did this? Which would you really like to drive?


Range Rover Dragon Challenge

https://youtu.be/EUwzWHD3Htg

Perhaps that wasn't accurate of me to say "every metric", because the RR does have more horsepower than our Highlander. I should've said "every metric that WE care about"... the greatest of which being not having it in the dealership every couple months for something not working.

I don't really care about how fast it goes around corners, because it will never go around corners better than the 2002 Corvette I've owned for a decade, and it will never perform better off-road than the 2011 Jeep Rubicon parked in the garage next to our Vette.

I've been a "car guy" my whole adult life. I've owned dozens of cars. Most of them were personality and ego cars. Sports cars, muscle cars, trucks to tow trailers hauling sports cars too twitchy to drive on the street, performance sedans, and very few "ordinary" cars. I knew the RR was going be trouble because I know cars. My wife, not so much. Sometimes you just have to let people see for themselves. She loved the Rover, but only until she realized it was garbage, which was sometime in the second year, after multiple weeks driving dealer loaners while hers was being fixed (again).

Everyone has to live and learn.

I don’t think a guy who drives a 2002 vette as his “fun car” can afford to go out and buy a $100k RR as an “I told you so” experiment for his wife. Your story would have been more believable if she had traded in the Range for a 2005 Chevy Cobalt.

Oh boy, here we go!!!


The Vette is the "fun" car because I built it. I bought it at an auction on a salvage title for $3,000 after some idiot wrecked it. See, I just wanted the cheapest C5 chassis I could find (cause I'm cheap like that!) Then I spent a couple years tinkering with it on weekends and in between other projects. I swapped in a Neil Parrot Racing LS-7 crate motor with a Vortec supercharger, 26lb injectors, 15mm fuel lines, Hurst short throw shift kit and racing clutch, Denon carbon fiber prop shaft, 4.10 final drive R&P, Brembo carbon cermaic 6 piston brakes, BBS wheels with Hoosier track tires, Bilstien suspension and remote reservoir shocks, Summit Racing fuel cell, Recaro seats and 5-point harnesses, and I made a custom cage using 1.250" DOM tube. If I paid retail for the parts and had someone else turning the wrenches, I'd figure I've got about $165,000 into the car, but if I sold it today I doubt I'd get more than $120,000 for it.

But it's a toy. I take it to Summit Point, VIR and Pocono every few weekends, but not nearly as often as I'd like to. But it's a blast to drive. No idea of a top-end, there's not enough road anywhere close to this area to find out. My guess, probably around 190, limited by the 4.10 rear. But cornering, braking and acceleration are where it really shines: 1.17 G / 300ft skidpad and 10.68 sec 0-100-0 / 10.011 quarter mile at 132.63 mph.

I've had lots of other fast and fun cars in the time I've owned the Vette, and I've kept most of them fairly stock, but the Vette is special to me because I've got so much time invested in bringing it back from the dead and turning it into a monster. I'll part with it one day for the right price, but it's going to be hard to find anything that can eclipse it. I even had a '92 Lambo Diablo for while, and even it couldn't match the Vette. And although I've owned several, the Italian cars don't really do much for me, maybe because I always get them 2nd and 3rd owner, and I always need to do something to them. Plus, VW really screwed things up when they started platform sharing and sticking their stuff into Lambos, so I'll probably never own one made after 2005 or so, since their ECU and PCM diagnostic stuff is all proprietary and a pain in the butt for anyone without dealership service support.


I told you I was car guy.... but I make my money on a place servicing heavy trucks. Not bad for a guy who never finished college, huh?

Let me give you a verbatim parts list for the NASA Boeing Aquatics space shuttle I built in my garage over 2 weekends. Oh and I never finished middle school.

The lengths autistic people will go to make stuff up on the internet is pretty impressive.

[Anonymous]

NP. Really? Autistic? You do yourself no favors with that attitude, my friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. Really? Autistic? You do yourself no favors with that attitude, my friend.

+1. Total dick