Land Rover Defender?

nwallace

Some of these so called "lifestyle 4x4" are excellent cars though.

The Honda CRV springs to mind, drives just like a car and apparently very good on snow and mud.

Dad's currently looking for a replacement for the Rally Service Barge Jeep Cherokee that was written off a few weeks ago. That car had everything wrong with it from a car point of view, but seriously missing it just now both for snow and rally servicing purposes.

Not sure the same could be said about that bloody Porsche "4x4" thing though.

louthepoo

Buckled_Rims wrote:

unixnerd wrote:

I kind of dismissed those as they didn't seem to have much ground clearance and I know they used to (maybe they fixed it?) have head gasket problems. Maybe I'll give them another look......

The gasket problem was with the Rover 1.8 petrol engine. It was a simple fix but costly. I can't remember any problems with the diesel engine.

http://www.freelanderheadgasket.co.uk/

thats right it was the rover engines - shed loads of problems with them apart from the head gaskets. I've got the TD4 station wagon and love it, wish the boot was bigger though.

Pross

Berk Bonebonce wrote:

Cars suck.

4x4 = climate change.

And what do you need a 4x4 for anyway? The ramp at Tesco's?

An inch of snow and they want a 4x4 ...

Point me in the direction of a low emission vehicle capable of towing 2.7t and I'll bite your arm off to have it. That said 4x4 does not equal climate change, CO2 emissions do and there are quite a few cars and SUVs that have 4x4 transmission but put out less C02 than your average family hatchback. My main car is a Mini diesel which puts out 103 g/km of CO2 does 25,000 miles per year but I need the 4x4 to tow (it also came in useful last winter and helped get several relatives and friends to appointments that they otherwise would have struggled with) and I have only done 1,500 in the past 15 months (haven't used it at all between March and last week).

Nuggs

Will Snow wrote:

Berk Bonebonce wrote:

Cars suck.

4x4 = climate change.

And what do you need a 4x4 for anyway? The ramp at Tesco's?

An inch of snow and they want a 4x4 ...

I enjoy burning tyres, just to annoy you

Chuck a couple of (imported) tyres on for me.

MarcBC

Pross wrote:

Berk Bonebonce wrote:

Cars suck.

4x4 = climate change.

And what do you need a 4x4 for anyway? The ramp at Tesco's?

An inch of snow and they want a 4x4 ...

Point me in the direction of a low emission vehicle capable of towing 2.7t and I'll bite your arm off to have it. That said 4x4 does not equal climate change, CO2 emissions do and there are quite a few cars and SUVs that have 4x4 transmission but put out less C02 than your average family hatchback. My main car is a Mini diesel which puts out 103 g/km of CO2 does 25,000 miles per year but I need the 4x4 to tow (it also came in useful last winter and helped get several relatives and friends to appointments that they otherwise would have struggled with) and I have only done 1,500 in the past 15 months (haven't used it at all between March and last week).

I would also add that I have a brand new Defender 90 for which the emissions are offset for the first 60,000 miles by the planting of trees by Land Rover. Further my Defender will last 15 years, not so many Micras etc around of that age.