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CFB
Member Since: 02 Dec 2005
Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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 I really wish someone at LR would run an advert campaign to counter this crap. Comparisons that show the mpg bettering most gas guzzling sports cars, promotion of the safety aspect of owning a LR etc etc.
Come on before it's too late. 2020 BMW X1 18d XDrive X-Line Auto
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 27th Mar 2006 12:38 pm |
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KL
Member Since: 16 Jun 2005
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Pelyma wrote:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2104169,00.html
Says it all really 
But what it doesn't say in the article is that they regularly mention 'Landrovers' (unspecified vintage; my guess Defenders rather than series vehicles) doing the farm workhorse thing. Indeed the twit Kenton and his flash (unnamed) 4x4 with winch needed rescue by Tom last week in his Landrover.
It is still subtle demonisation of 'lifestyle' 4x4s, even though they are giving a bit of subliminal support for the working vehicle side. Discovery 3 tdv6 7 seat Buckingham Blue
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| 27th Mar 2006 12:40 pm |
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LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
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cotefarmboy wrote: I really wish someone at LR would run an advert campaign to counter this crap. Comparisons that show the mpg bettering most gas guzzling sports cars, promotion of the safety aspect of owning a LR etc etc.
Come on before it's too late.
They should ASAP. Interesting to compare mpg/CO2 figures in J.Clarksons Good/Bad Car Sunday Times supplement. The new Alfa 159 (V6) for example, more thirsty & only fractionally less CO2 than the TDV6 D3!
I personally wouldn't choose to drive a D3 or any big car in a town/city unless I needed to, but if others choose to I don't care. Provided that large cars are parked properly, I can't see a problem.
As I've said before, the new Saab estate, 6mm longer than a D3, urban mpg c.25!!!
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| 27th Mar 2006 12:54 pm |
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simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
Location: Shropshire
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So were are we safe from Government meddling ?
This is disgusting... 
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| 27th Mar 2006 1:36 pm |
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Guy
Member Since: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Sitting Down, Facing Front
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Haven't listened for some time but David and Tony are working farmers and, as KL says, drive Land Rovers (often referred to) that are presumably Defenders. Brian definitely drove a Range Rover and, being Brian, it would be an HSE+++ spec! Mind you, didn't he drive it into a tree when he was having an affair with that Irish bint?
Went to a friend's farm in Shropshire yesterday. He has a Defender and a Disco II (posh car!). I can't quite see him driving up the mile-long non-surfaced track with a couple of ewes and a bale or two of hay in the back of a Toyota Smuggus. Sorry, Prius...
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| 27th Mar 2006 2:28 pm |
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al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
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I do like the Forbes comment on the RRS - "Trading on the status symbol that is the brand's flagship, Land Rover has masked the truth about the Range Rover Sport: It's a waste of money compared with the LR3."
Sorry RRS guys - just a gloating D3 owner. 
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| 27th Mar 2006 2:28 pm |
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Martin
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Member Since: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Hook Norton
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So this government isn't playing mind tricks with us and peddling out propaganda then? 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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| 27th Mar 2006 2:54 pm |
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Guy
Member Since: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Sitting Down, Facing Front
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Of course not: they are a decent, honest, caring Government. I know this because I've got a pamphlet from them telling me so...
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| 27th Mar 2006 2:55 pm |
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Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
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You're talking about the lot that raided our pensions without telling us and have now effectivley stopped most forms of Inheritance Tax Planning - didn't report that in the budget did they! DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
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| 27th Mar 2006 3:01 pm |
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KL
Member Since: 16 Jun 2005
Location: Gilling, nr York
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Guy wrote: Brian definitely drove a Range Rover and, being Brian, it would be an HSE+++ spec! Mind you, didn't he drive it into a tree when he was having an affair with that Irish bint?
If I recall, Brian had a shiney new Merc when Siobhan wrote it /him off... Discovery 3 tdv6 7 seat Buckingham Blue
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| 27th Mar 2006 4:31 pm |
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Guy
Member Since: 05 Jul 2005
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KL wrote:
If I recall, Brian had a shiney new Merc when Siobhan wrote it /him off...
Ah! Could be. But I seem to recall Debbie borrowing the Range Rover at some time.
Mmm. Dream date: Debbie in a Range Rover 
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| 27th Mar 2006 4:36 pm |
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KL
Member Since: 16 Jun 2005
Location: Gilling, nr York
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Guy wrote:KL wrote:
If I recall, Brian had a shiney new Merc when Siobhan wrote it /him off...
Ah! Could be. But I seem to recall Debbie borrowing the Range Rover at some time.
Mmm. Dream date: Debbie in a Range Rover
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| 27th Mar 2006 7:03 pm |
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Guy
Member Since: 05 Jul 2005
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Graham Harvey defended The Archers' storyline integrity on 'Front Row' last night (Monday) on Radio 4 and said the story didn't come from DEFRA but from a farming friend of his who had problems with "off-roaders using his bridleways". Not particularly interesting but as this a good public-service website, here's the Listen Again Link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/ra...ontrow_mon
The piece is 21' into the programme.
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| 28th Mar 2006 10:20 am |
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