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D4 to RRS??
Interesting conundrum.... Like a lot of you I've fallen head over heels with the new RRS... Absolutely gorgeous looking machine... Today I had the opportunity to have one on an extended test drive whilst my D4 Lux was being serviced... What a car!
Totally smitten with the looks...
Yumyum. My initial impressions was that it was an awesome car...massively fast and holds the road like a true sports car.. If anyone knows the A225 between Eynsford and Shoreham there is a fantastic bend under a railway bridge where it flew round as fast as any sports car I've been in around there previously..
Huge handling..great power stunning looks..what more could someone want?? Well that's the trouble...I own a D4..surely the best car in the world???
The negatives of the Sport was that it was nowhere near as practical, nowhere near as comfortable and generically not as good! The Sport, aimed at press on driving, had a crashy suspension, banging over slightest potholes, was equally hesitant and then went into kick down aggressively ...
They really are chalk and cheese and nowhere near comparable....the rivals to a RRS would be a RS6, an M5 Touring, an Audi A8 ... Not a Disco....
Maybe I'm getting old but you wouldn't get out of a Sport revived and refreshed...you get out hot sweaty and stressed after driving like a loon.... Probably adding a few points to your licence on the way...
The Disco wafts along, is gorgeously smooth and carries the entire family and the contents of the house...
The Sport also attracted a huge amount of attention...which if you like to be anonymous ain't gonna happen if you drive a Sport... It also attracted a lot of the wrong kind of attention and was being admired by the type of people who own faux leather chesterfields, flock wallpaper and shop at Lakeside...and whose wives have more 'tasteful' (????) tattoos than your average navvies! I get the feeling they will soon be owned by blokes who only travel threes up looking like a bank team, spend their lives pumping iron and have inflatable wives!!!
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20th Sep 2013 3:56 pm
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Think you have already answered that
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20th Sep 2013 4:07 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Change to the Sport, it's an itch you need to scratch. I like it, just can't afford it.
20th Sep 2013 4:10 pm
Robbie
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I like it, but it is made from tinfoil and glue.
Trouble is if I surrendered the practicality of the D4 I may as well look at a whole host of other cars. When I look for a solid, practical and proper 7 seat 4x4 the market narrows to the D4 pretty quickly. The RRS is quite expensive too for my public sector wage.
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Had a deposit on one
cancelled it when I saw one 'in the flesh'
but think I want one again now .....ho humIllegitimi Non Carborundum
20th Sep 2013 4:38 pm
dubbs
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The design direction is great.... just hoping the D5 will be the fantastic meld of D4 and RRS I'd want it to be.
20th Sep 2013 4:52 pm
euangibson
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Was in the dealer today and had another look...it's very nice indeed,but I still can't get my head round the collection of numbers on the windscreen......
It's not half as practical as a D4,but to be fair,I think the old one was aimed at a different market also....
Makes a very rude noise in 5.0 s/c spec though 8)
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool,than to speak out and remove all doubt" ?.....what rubbish...
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20th Sep 2013 4:52 pm
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I know I know I know.... But as a daily driver... What would be perfect would be 5.0 SC in the garage for the weekend only... Cosseted in my garage for the rest of the week....in fact I'd prefer to have one of those in there instead of a Ferrari!!!
But a TDV6 as a daily driver?? I'm struggling with it...it lots the absolute dogs danglies but I'd just feel I had to drive to Southend on Sea every night...
Now an RS6 or a RRS? That would be a question.... Must go got to catch the sweetshop for my lottery ticket!!
20th Sep 2013 5:48 pm
H16UUP
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Hugemongous amount of money, and it'll haemorrhage value faster than a South American currency in the first few years
I you want retail therapy, buy a nice fluorescent iPhone 5C this weekend , or put it in your pension
My old Rangie and I "have a relationship" now. Kind of one way. I pay for her expensive tastes in parts, and she gives me a nice steady...ahem, journey
Your choice at the end of the day, but having wasted 10s of thousands on depreciation in the past, I'm wise to that now.
20th Sep 2013 6:02 pm
euangibson
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Farmer Chalk wrote:
Now an RS6 or a RRS? That would be a question....:
Similar to a question I asked myself a few months ago......decided an RS6 would make me smile about once a week for about 10 seconds.....whereas a D4 would make me smile every time I was out in it....and it does "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool,than to speak out and remove all doubt" ?.....what rubbish...
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20th Sep 2013 6:16 pm
crews control
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I think I preferred the looks until I saw them in the flesh... might get ordinary really quickly - especially the one's with black pack/wheels. You need large shiny wheels to fill arches that big otherwise the body looks too bloaty.
I wouldn't say no... but I think I'd wait a year and let someone else take the initial depreciation.
20th Sep 2013 6:18 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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I saw one in the LR stealer in Inverness of Tuesday, thought it looked gorgeous but had a £75k price tag. Unfortunately that's more than I paid for my first house for just a car so bit of a psychological barrier to cross. It was sold however, possibly to dangerdave.
20th Sep 2013 6:22 pm
euangibson
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crews control wrote:
I wouldn't say no... but I think I'd wait a year and let someone else take the initial depreciation.
I think you may have hit it on the head....in 2 years (ish) we're told the D5 will see the light of day.....
Now that would be a dilemma,as,by then I would imagine a fully-loaded RRS will be about the same money as a vanilla D5....?... Hmmm.. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool,than to speak out and remove all doubt" ?.....what rubbish...
Locking rear E-diff
RLD spare wheel protector & sump guard
Extended roof rails
Series 111 mudflaps
Black side tubes,grill and vents
Timed climate remote
Hids4u interior lights
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D3 Java 2005 SE manual (sold,sadly,thanks for the memories)
1966 '88 Series 2a....still starts in the morning better than I do...
20th Sep 2013 6:28 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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We seem to have been hearing we'll see the D5 in two years for at least 3 years (or so), LR would no doubt say "those peeps buy all we make, why change?". How old is the Deafner?
20th Sep 2013 6:33 pm
euangibson
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I was a sceptic about a D5,but have been semi-persuaded by those "in the know" on here that it will happen....I'm happier that it will happen after seeing the my2014 revisions........apologies to anyone who likes it,but it smacks of a desperate gap-filler to me......as I said,apologies for any offence,just my opinion "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool,than to speak out and remove all doubt" ?.....what rubbish...
Locking rear E-diff
RLD spare wheel protector & sump guard
Extended roof rails
Series 111 mudflaps
Black side tubes,grill and vents
Timed climate remote
Hids4u interior lights
D4 Firenze my2012 HSE
D3 Java 2005 SE manual (sold,sadly,thanks for the memories)
1966 '88 Series 2a....still starts in the morning better than I do...
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