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Nostromo
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Poll Question:
If you had enough funds to buy a top-of-the-range 4x4 vehicle (you are not allowed to keep the money or use it otherwise! ) which of these would it be? | |
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brizzle
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 06:44:54
| Voted for the Range Rover as the Hummer would be way too big for some of the UK streets I navigate (not to mention too big for the garage!).
I haven't checked but the fuel bill will surely be a lot bigger in the Hummer; they also look ugly and too overstated IMHO.
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Cruella DeVilla
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Nostromo
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 08:52:43
| I'd like a Hummer too. I agree with Brizzle that it is ugly and slab-sided, but that's what makes it attractive - in a sort of Miriam Margolyes fashion. But above all the Hummer has got character - something the bland and boring Range Rover would never have.
Perhaps I should have said "driving in America" where the roads are better and fuel bills not as high as the UK. Brizzle is probably right in thinking that the bill will be higher for the Hummer, but the V8 engine on the RRV is not exactly known for its economy either. |
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brizzle
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 09:04:22
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Originally posted by Nostromo
I'd like a Hummer too. I agree with Brizzle that it is ugly and slab-sided, but that's what makes it attractive - in a sort of Miriam Margolyes fashion. But above all the Hummer has got character - something the bland and boring Range Rover would never have.
Perhaps I should have said "driving in America" where the roads are better and fuel bills not as high as the UK. Brizzle is probably right in thinking that the bill will be higher for the Hummer, but the V8 engine on the RRV is not exactly known for its economy either.
Ah, now that's different.
In the UK when I see one I just think it looks so out of place and brash. It kind of says look at me I have so much money I can afford to waste it on petrol. I'd buy something still good quality wise but a little more understated.
It suits America so it would be a closer call.
The wider roads seem to make it blend in more, that and the fact that even the small cars are B-I-G...
I can just imagine taking it down some of the South West country roads...although if you met someone coming the other way you could just hop into the field, pass them and carry on 
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dodgey memory
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 09:18:42
| | I wouldn't have either of them even if I was given one. Pedestrian killers both of them, why any one wants to drive such an enormous car is beyond me. You know what they say big car little ****. (Guess who didn't get a lot of sleep last night!) Teresa | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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Nostromo
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 11:18:21
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Originally posted by WR1
BMW X5 
WR.
Now there is a great vehicle, esp in its 4.8-Litre 'is' guise. But storage capacity is a bit limited and it (as well as the Porsche Cayenne) seems too sophisticated to drive around the Rockies or Utah Flats. The Hummer seems more down to earth and practical. |
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Cruella DeVilla
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 11:46:06
| | I am seriously toying with buying a Lotus in the next few weeks......problem is we are hopefully moving to the US in 30 months or so and I am not sure it is a wise decision. Got the cash just don't think it is the sensible thing to do....then again when was I ever sensible when it came to pretty things! |
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luckylady
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Nostromo
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Cruella DeVilla
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 14:10:38
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Originally posted by Nostromo
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Originally posted by Cruella DeVilla
when was I ever sensible when it came to pretty things!
But Mr CDV is, as he proved all these years?
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chrizzy100
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 15:28:34
| | We nearly got a DeLorean when we first moved over ....mostly because the kids watch too many films......I now wish I had got it ....it would be intersting to have one in Orlando........apart from that I have not interest in cars......they just get me from A to B...... | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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Nostromo
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 15:44:16
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Hubby is trying to persuade me to have a BMW X3.....the X5 is far too big for me. My problem is that some of the places I have to leave it ( you know where I mean Arun!)I might just come back and find it on bricks!!!
I know what you mean, Liz. But most new cars now come with locking wheelnuts that are very difficult, if not impossible even for the Penhill 'mechanics' to breach. Go on, indulge yourself. |
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WR1
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 18:37:33
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Originally posted by Cruella DeVilla
I am seriously toying with buying a Lotus in the next few weeks......problem is we are hopefully moving to the US in 30 months or so and I am not sure it is a wise decision. Got the cash just don't think it is the sensible thing to do....then again when was I ever sensible when it came to pretty things!
Which of the Lotus models were you thinking of buying CDV.
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LiesaAnna
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 20:24:45
| Hubby said i can buy a hummer to be different!! wouldnt normally ask him, my car is a trusty old mondeo L reg!! dont care what it looks like as long as i can do school run! A-B, but if we won the chance to have one of the above it would be HUMMER H1 ALPHA  |
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daisy
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Status: offline | Posted - 06 Mar 2005 : 20:36:24
| would have to opt for the BMW X5 if was in a position to buy one i think they are fab have to say i have seen one with a big simpsons sticker on the bumper and was horrified that someone would do that to such a nice car !
if not a 4x4 a mercedes SLK please |
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