Why ???

[Drago]

oh aye, don't get me started on Ford, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Mitsubishi...

 

[Cycleops]

Anyone that was around on the seventies should recognise that @Dave 7. Too busy ironing your flares and floral shirt?

 

[screenman]

That looks brilliant. A car with character and actual offroad capabilities instead of the now ubiquitous giant soulless w**kpanzers that couldn't go offroad if they tried.

Have you ever taken a new say £100,000 Range Rover off road, they are extremely capable.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Why not? Classic cars are about individuality. My Capri was going to be restored to standard until I found it's not a numbers matching engine. So now I will have a play, and make it my own.

Wind them all up & put a diesel in it?


Or a 302/315 V8?

 

[Edwardoka]

Have you ever taken a new say £100,000 Range Rover off road, they are extremely capable.

Not a chance, nor would I want to.

I did once drive an extremely knackered clearly written-off Range Rover on a bit of land that a farmer had set aside for off-roading activity days and had carved out tracks into the hillside.

That was fun, particularly the steep downhill corner with a boulder on the apex that was getting closer and closer to ripping the bottom out of the thing every time someone went over it.

No-one sensible would put anything valuable anywhere near that.

 

[screenman]

Not a chance, nor would I want to.

I did once drive an extremely knackered clearly written-off Range Rover on a bit of land that a farmer had set aside for off-roading activity days and had carved out tracks into the hillside.

That was fun, particularly the steep downhill corner with a boulder on the apex that was getting closer and closer to ripping the bottom out of the thing every time someone went over it.

No-one sensible would put anything valuable anywhere near that.

I did a day with Land Rover off roading, I was impressed with the ability of the vehicles.

 

[StuAff]

If you think that's bad, a Mazda RX-8 monster truck drove past the house a few weeks back…

(yes, you did read 'Mazda RX-8 monster truck' correctly).

 

[cosmicbike]

Wind them all up & put a diesel in it?


Or a 302/315 V8?

Dirty diseasel, no thanks.

Windsor 302 would be nice, but expensive. Rover V8 is more affordable, loads out there, add a set of side pipes, that's me happy. It's all about the noise.

 

[Pikey]

Oh no, I think I want it... there has been a gap on my driveway since I sold my project land rover with the lift and snorkel etc... that would fill it nicely oh my.

 

[Pikey]

If you think that's bad, a Mazda RX-8 monster truck drove past the house a few weeks back…

(yes, you did read 'Mazda RX-8 monster truck' correctly).

That is redneck cool right there.

 

[raleighnut]

Dirty diseasel, no thanks.

Windsor 302 would be nice, but expensive. Rover V8 is more affordable, loads out there, add a set of side pipes, that's me happy. It's all about the noise.

Aye the Rover is a great machine for turning Petrol into Noise.

 

[RichardB]

I did a day with Land Rover off roading, I was impressed with the ability of the vehicles.

I used to do off-road trials, first with a standard diesel 90 and then with the same truck highly modified. I was often astonished at how well ordinary Land Rovers, from old, leaf-sprung Series vehicles through to the early Range Rovers, would do on near-impossible terrain. Yes, modern Land Rovers are very capable (and very expensive) vehicles, but the skill is in the head of the guy who wrote the traction control & suspension software, not the driver. I'm a big fan of Land Rovers, but they haven't made anything since about 2004 that I have wanted to own. And the new Pretender, sorry Defender! A 50 grand Tonka Toy.

 

[screenman]

I used to do off-road trials, first with a standard diesel 90 and then with the same truck highly modified. I was often astonished at how well ordinary Land Rovers, from old, leaf-sprung Series vehicles through to the early Range Rovers, would do on near-impossible terrain. Yes, modern Land Rovers are very capable (and very expensive) vehicles, but the skill is in the head of the guy who wrote the traction control & suspension software, not the driver. I'm a big fan of Land Rovers, but they haven't made anything since about 2004 that I have wanted to own. And the new Pretender, sorry Defender! A 50 grand Tonka Toy.

I agree with the driver bit, all I did was twiddle a few knobs and steer. My reply was to somebody who suggested the vehicles today were not capable. I am certainly not a fan of Land Rovers, I fix dents and glass on plenty of them though.

 

[Drago]

Have you ever taken a new say £100,000 Range Rover off road, they are extremely capable.

Provided theyre not on the standard Pirelli road tyres, then theyre very capable. Until they break. On the factory rubber they're hopless off the tarmac - even wet grass on an incline van defeat the Pirellis.

 

[screenman]

Provided theyre not on the standard Pirelli road tyres, then theyre very capable. Until they break. On the factory rubber they're hopless off the tarmac - even wet grass on an incline van defeat the Pirellis.

Not sure what the ones I drove had on, I had an Evoque in the morning session and a Range Rover Sport in the afternoon, all I would say is that if anyone thinks they are not capable then they have never tried one and or never been given some instruction.