First production Range Rover to be auctioned

[beko1987]

I've just had a go and you cant spec steels on any of the new RR's it seems, so I closed the page!

[dollywobbler]

I thought the road manners of my Rangie were bloody amazing given it uses beam axles and a steering box. Mind you, I guess I'm used to cornering on the door handles. It was quite alarming to follow me apparently. Disco is much stiffer - a bodge to save them having to fit any rear suspension levelling kit. 

 

Early Rangies are vastly different to drive. In a good way. Very agricultural, but also well mannered. 

[HillmanImp]

I reckon the modern Range Rover still has a bit of class at least, as much as any expensive modern car can have anyway.

 

I don't, the new ones are very RR Sport/EWOK etc. They styling dept has gone full chav on it if you ask me.

 

The model before was a bit more refined and understated than the sports etc but they are properly grim looking now. When I drive one for work I don't think that I look like some landed gentry, I think people look at me like I am some sort of gangster/footballer/daytime TV presenter.

[Pete-M]

I don't like the early Range Rover Sport but tried one of the new ones recently. Hell of a piece of kit.

 

As for the footballer thing, they've got the money to buy them so why the hell not? If nobody buys them new there won't be any for us to have when they are old and cheap.

[forddeliveryboy]

Agree with DW. early ones with ludicrously (to most) soft springs were a very neat way of making the vehicle comfy. capable and safe. You can't defy the laws of physics, through corners. Strapping antiroll bars between stiff springs just creates a false sense of security. The big Toyotas use a form of the Australian Kinetic Engineering suspension, either decoupling roll bars or replacing them altogether with spheres and liquid pushrods.

[Asimo]

First one I ever saw was a blue one, on an H plate. Still on the bucket list.

They've been going down hill since they fitted anti- roll bars & the four door bodge finished them for me.

My one-time brother in law worked for an outfit in The Forest that did RangeRover engine swaps, usually Ford York six cylinder diesels, (grim) but occasionally Jag. V12s which must have emptied the tank a bit quickly.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This talk of Range Rovers being a bit bouncy, reminds me of my brothers comment after driving my first V8 Discovery about 15 years ago; 'Fuck me,that's like driving a Montego on Biro springs!'

[bub2006]

My dad briefly had a G plate 3.9 vogue in black with bullbars. Think it was 8 years old at the time. Had it as a courtesy car while his isuzu trooper was getting some sort of recall sorted. I remember it being very good in a straight line but useless in the bends.

[Cavcraft]

The 'new shape' ones are getting dangerously cheap now.

 

£4,600, by no means mint but seems pretty cheap to me...

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2003-03-LAND-ROVER-RANGEROVER-VOGUE-3-0-TD6-AUTO-DIESEL-/251629136679?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a9643eb27&autorefresh=true

[NorfolkNWeigh]

That is scarily tempting but as Tayne says,the a/c isn't going to be cheap and at 172k it could be due it's second or third gearbox or front diff. About a year ago I went out intending to buy one of these or a Disco 3 for Mrs N , I bottled it big time when I realised that a ten grand one would probably need 50% of the purchase price spending on it each year.

When I do buy one it'll have a BMW V8 petrol under the bonnet, although in common with V8 versions of anything these days they're often more expensive than Dirty Dizzlers.

[brickwall]

The best 2 doors are the tow trucks in full livery.

[dangerousdave]

ive always loved the classic ever since I was a kid seeing the 4 doors when they were new and been amazed that something so posh could do so much fast forward 24 years went and bought one never regretted it one bit

I always remember when the p38 came out me and my mate saying how it looked like a metro cab and all the newer ones I just call them footballer spec lol

[dangerousdave]

and looking at autoshite rules I fit in well my Cortina is metallic brown with 70,s tastic alloys and the range rover is metallic green with std alloys

[cort16]

The only big 4x4 I'd have is a range rover I can't be arsed with any of the rest.