The CycleChat Large SUV Owners Club thread

[simongt]

Was in Wymondhan a few days ago and there was a BMW saloon in the car park.
It was so long that despite being fully t the back of the parking space, it overhung the front by about half a metre.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There was a feature in a regional free paper, that l think my wife picked up in Knaresborough over the weekend, about 'Twisted' (in Thirsk)
It concentrated on one of their Range-Rovers

https://twisted.co/automotive/rrc/
The article stated 'Prices are from £350,000'...................

We've been for a look a couple of years ago

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 27th

ALDI
Marsh Street
Rothwell
(south of Leeds)

It was very nicely restored & still with a V8

They look like '1 Ton'/130 wheels, due to the deep offset (6.5" 'well width', from memory)
I'm not sure about the tyres, & I'm sure it had (the popular period feature of) a 4 lamp grille
The suspension seems to be on '+2 inch' coils

Plus, they have fantastic levels of all-round vision, due to a low 'waistline'

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 2nd

Seen here

The Cummins 5.9 '12 Valve'?

 

[Jameshow]

Saturday 2nd

Seen here
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The Cummins 5.9 '12 Valve'?
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Definitely large SUV!!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 4th

I forgot, before l saw the WH Malcolm ‘convoy’, l saw a tasty Land Rover on a trailer, as it headed northwards
It seemed to have a taller stance than a standard (Series 3) 109”

Given the (seemingly larger) tyres, l thought it was a One-Ton
They’re on 6.5” wide rims & 9.00x16 tyres (‘bar grips’ as standard, which are horrible in wet roads)
The engine is either the 2.25 diesel (a bit gutless, even with the lower geared transfer box), or the 2.6litre/6-cylinder petrol from the Rover saloons of that era

Contact with a friend confirmed the fact, that this is what l saw (his photo)

Dans, is the ‘Southern Electricity’ (‘SEB’) hard-top, that features;

https://www.onetonlandrovers.co.uk/index.php/chassis-numbers/

 

[stephec]

Was in Wymondhan a few days ago and there was a BMW saloon in the car park.
It was so long that despite being fully t the back of the parking space, it overhung the front by about half a metre.

My old company car, last of the Mondeos, was similar.

If I put it fully back in a space at our local Tesco it was still around a foot sticking out at the front.

Brilliant car that was big, comfy, went round corners quite well, and did upto 660 miles on a 55L tank, but work decided to replace it with a Skoda Enyaq.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 16th

Coach Road/A169
Bottom of ‘Blue Bank’ (opposite The Plough pub, where we called for dinner, whilst heading home)
Sleights
(just inland of Whitby)
North Yorkshire

What an odd colour (wrapped??)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

JCB products were certainly available at that point (the 3C was the model in question), but you either had to travel slowly to the next job, or have it transported there
The 'Airdrive Harrier' was a factory approved conversion attempt to simplfy that, for smaller projects/builds, & maybe more affordable (to purchase/operate)

https://www.lrheritagecollection.org.uk/the-collection/vehicles/wor-02#pid=1

Land-Rover themselves, tried the idea again, in the 1980s, to 'keep it in house'

View: https://youtu.be/ksofNxheSqI?si=3pV1anrjTxI6i0f2

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

To all intents & purposes, that's a 'Meteorite' in there........
A Thorneycroft Antar engine................ with added twin-turbos..................


View: https://youtu.be/N_LH86eboTI?si=pQfnnqlrdFteUZ-w

 

[DRM]

JCB products were certainly available at that point (the 3C was the model in question), but you either had to travel slowly to the next job, or have it transported there
The 'Airdrive Harrier' was a factory approved conversion attempt to simplfy that, for smaller projects/builds, & maybe more affordable (to purchase/operate)

https://www.lrheritagecollection.org.uk/the-collection/vehicles/wor-02#pid=1

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Land-Rover themselves, tried it in the 1980s, to 'keep in in house'

View: https://youtu.be/ksofNxheSqI?si=3pV1anrjTxI6i0f2

To all intents & purposes, that's a 'Meteorite' in there........
A Thorneycroft Antar engine................ with added twin-turbos..................


View: https://youtu.be/N_LH86eboTI?si=pQfnnqlrdFteUZ-w

And the above examples are more evidence that the new Defender is just a lifestyle chocolate tea pot, with two silly sandwich boxes stuck on each side, incapable of being modified to do a hundred and one jobs like it's predecessor

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 13th

WheelFest
Pontefract

This was probably the car l wanted to take home, from what l saw
I did hear a few people commentating on how large it appeared inside, so much space, such good visibility
Which it did have, but.................. I don't think it'd pass any present crash/impact regulations (even allowing for not having air-bags)

It had an interesting first owner too...............