Member Since: 06 May 2005
Location: Y...... because I can
Posts: 10438
596 miles of fun so far.
Been pushing the envelope on my private test track and still not got the DSC to kick in, in the D4 on one corner the DSC would engage at 70mph. I'm up to 78mph on the same corner in the D5 and no sign of DSC. An analogy:- D4 is like a Hippo compared to the D5 that feels like a Cheetah.
Seats are great, rear visibility is better, very commanding driving position, dash is spot on, electric tailgate.. so easy to use and very very very useful, 6 up for 3 hours and NO complaints, experienced 3 row passengers said it's a better ride 'less wallowing'.In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
3rd Apr 2017 9:11 pm
Ent
Member Since: 12 Oct 2007
Location: In the cack
Posts: 6485
Nobody likes youClub Exped trailer
Club Timed Climate
Club Flappy paddle steering wheel
Club 300bhp
Club Prospeed test pilot/lab rat
Club National Luna Stella conditioner
3rd Apr 2017 9:23 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72786
Especially the 3rd row passenger!! Let he/she ride up front for a change.
3rd Apr 2017 9:25 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 13901
AndrewS wrote:
596 miles of fun so far.
Been pushing the envelope on my private test track and still not got the DSC to kick in, in the D4 on one corner the DSC would engage at 70mph. I'm up to 78mph on the same corner in the D5 and no sign of DSC. An analogy:- D4 is like a Hippo compared to the D5 that feels like a Cheetah.
Seats are great, rear visibility is better, very commanding driving position, dash is spot on, electric tailgate.. so easy to use and very very very useful, 6 up for 3 hours and NO complaints, experienced 3 row passengers said it's a better ride 'less wallowing'.
I love my Hippo. I wouldn't mess with one.....
New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
3rd Apr 2017 9:59 pm
Russell
Member Since: 24 Aug 2007
Location: Kent
Posts: 10564
DSL wrote:
Especially the 3rd row passenger!! Let he/she ride up front for a change.
I can remeber some 3rd row seat passagers at Gaydon screaming when we went round one corner of the test track in a D4, wonder what they would do in a D5 MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
MY15 D4 HSE Kaikoura Stone
MY12 D4 HSE Nara Bronze Sold and gone
MY11 D4 HSE Stornaway Grey Sold and gone
D3 S spec Silver Sold and gone
Tow bar, full length roof bars, side steps, tow bar storage unit, surround camers.
D4 camera club
3rd Apr 2017 10:32 pm
Bello35
Member Since: 14 Mar 2017
Location: Bretagne.
Posts: 161
adam wrote:
Technology moves fwd.
Heart says buy one, Bank account says F. off
My heart says: don't buy one, bank account says: Thank you very much
Member Since: 12 Mar 2010
Location: Essex
Posts: 1722
Russell wrote:
DSL wrote:
Especially the 3rd row passenger!! Let he/she ride up front for a change.
I can remeber some 3rd row seat passagers at Gaydon screaming when we went round one corner of the test track in a D4, wonder what they would do in a D5
If it is driven by the guy we had who looked like Oliver Reid I would think still scream!! He looked like he should have been out on a Sunday drive!! Today is the oldest you've been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
4th Apr 2017 11:08 am
AndrewS Tarquin of the Desert
Member Since: 06 May 2005
Location: Y...... because I can
Posts: 10438
Ent wrote:
Nobody likes you
I know In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
4th Apr 2017 11:19 am
grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 6266
AndrewS wrote:
596 miles of fun so far.
Been pushing the envelope on my private test track and still not got the DSC to kick in, in the D4 on one corner the DSC would engage at 70mph. I'm up to 78mph on the same corner in the D5 and no sign of DSC. An analogy:- D4 is like a Hippo compared to the D5 that feels like a Cheetah.
Seats are great, rear visibility is better, very commanding driving position, dash is spot on, electric tailgate.. so easy to use and very very very useful, 6 up for 3 hours and NO complaints, experienced 3 row passengers said it's a better ride 'less wallowing'.
... but it is efing ugly
4th Apr 2017 12:35 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13097
You can't see it when you're driving it. Looks are second to driving to some of us... Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
4th Apr 2017 8:33 pm
Grianaig
Member Since: 08 Jul 2014
Location: Tyne and Wear
Posts: 1286
Used to have to put up with comments about shape of and noise from my 1961 VW Beetle in the 60s. Common remarks to Beetle owners. The reply was that you didn't see it when you were inside it and you left the noise behind when you drove it.2014 MY Discovery XS Indus Silver. Sadly gone. Second last LR of forty eight years continuous ownership.
4th Apr 2017 8:40 pm
Bello35
Member Since: 14 Mar 2017
Location: Bretagne.
Posts: 161
RRSTDV8 wrote:
You can't see it when you're driving it. Looks are second to driving to some of us...
Yeah, right...you only say that because you drive a RRS and not a SsangYong Rodius
4th Apr 2017 8:55 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13097
I drove a 309GTi for a few years. That wasn't a good looking car, especially from behind, but it was great to drive. And because it was "ugly" it didn't get the attention of scrotes in the way the good looking 205 equivalent did.
See, ugly can be great. As long as you don't wake up next to it... Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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