DickyH
Member Since: 07 Aug 2006
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 81
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Interesting point of view DG. Please get this issue in perspective; I merely made a comment that I do not believe the electrics will last that long, and I made it on the basis of my own views formed from past performance. I may be right or I may be wrong; I can accept that, but I'm surprised that such a comment would cause you to write what you did on a public forum, and having never even met me.
I may or may not agree with all your views, but I respect your right to make them, and would certainly never wish you dead or indeed any harm to you. That's quite a strong comment to say the least. I hope you are comfortable with it. 
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DG
Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
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Well if you read my ambiguos comments in that way.... then I can't assist you I'm afraid.
As for being comfortable with my comments...............Trim the herd .........thats what I say  21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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| 5th Oct 2006 12:33 pm |
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simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
Location: Shropshire
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Wow lighten up... if you read DG's post it was quite clearly punctuated with a
Which is quite obviously a sign that the comment was made as a joke... if he'd ended with a  or  then I would get steamy and start locking your doors at night.
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| 5th Oct 2006 1:04 pm |
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Gareth
Site Moderator
Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
Posts: 26702
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Easy Boys!
The main thing is, that the D3 is better for the planet than a Prius. We knew that, now they all know that too 
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| 5th Oct 2006 1:21 pm |
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Dom Harvey
Lord of the Four Fingers
Member Since: 15 Apr 2005
Location: Dorset
Posts: 7454
 
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 all getting a bit serious for this forum 2004 Discovery 3 - gone
2006 Discovery 3 - gone
2008 Discovery 3 GS - gone
2011 Freelander LE Special Edition - gone
2007 Discovery 3 XS - gone
2012 Discovery 4 GS - current
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| 5th Oct 2006 7:34 pm |
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catweasel
Member Since: 05 May 2006
Location: Bundaleer
Posts: 4805
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 isn't the prius partly powered by electricity/electrics so it would be more vulnerable to a failure given that point of view.
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| 7th Oct 2006 12:08 pm |
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Jamo
Member Since: 18 Jan 2006
Location: Esperance, Western Australia
Posts: 1170
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I couldn't care less!!
Let's see a Prius drive off the track and over scrub to allow a pansy hilux to get past, like I had to do when going camping last weekend! Have a nice day!
2010 Cayenne Diesel with PASM & Off Road Pkg
2005 HSE D3 (Sold)
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| 7th Oct 2006 12:20 pm |
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Very Annoyed
Member Since: 19 Nov 2005
Location: Up there, past the strange people and the sheep.
Posts: 3698
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There was a thing last night on Tonight With Trevor Macdonald seeing how green some families are. Usually hate these things but I had to laugh when a couple who had sold their 2 petrol driven cars and bought 2 hybrid cars were told that they should have kept the 2 previous cars because the energy in creating the new cars far outweighed the reduction in co2 that the 2 hybrid cars managed. Took the smile off their faces!
There was also some silly girl who was into eco tourism and guess how she got to all these places - yup by plane! She was a real preacher of green ethics and I could just imagine the grief she gives her friends who drive, don't recycle etc. She was proven to be the worst poluter of the 5 examples! Loving the power of the TDV8!
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| 7th Oct 2006 12:32 pm |
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catweasel
Member Since: 05 May 2006
Location: Bundaleer
Posts: 4805
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Hmmmm.........
now why am I not  or by that.
that reminds me of a time a guy from greenpeace came around handing out flyers on enviromental issues and he stopped to think when I refused to take the stuff as I'd be contributing to deforestation. morons
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| 7th Oct 2006 12:39 pm |
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Richard(Jim)B
Member Since: 02 Sep 2006
Location: Onsala
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Lol
Right now have both a Prius and a Civic Hybrid parked on the drive next to our D3 (Hybrid as works car makes me about 70pounds a month on the petrol money after the much rebated income tax is paid thus allowing the use of the D3 privately)
Wonder what the mad greenies would make of my auto park?
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| 7th Oct 2006 2:54 pm |
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catweasel
Member Since: 05 May 2006
Location: Bundaleer
Posts: 4805
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a forest
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| 7th Oct 2006 2:59 pm |
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Richard(Jim)B
Member Since: 02 Sep 2006
Location: Onsala
Posts: 55
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I ride one of these during the winter..
http://www.skoter.se/scripts/i_tidningen.p...5a4dbd094b
and while stopped to let a skier past and warned him about dodgy ice got a mouthful back about being a polluter:
(i) Ask how they got there (old Volvo with no cat. converter and high consumption)
(ii) How they heat their home (direct electrical on cabin and oil at home 3-4000Litres oil per year)
(iii) Holidays (charter to Thailand 500-600kg of fuel assuming jumbo with all seats taken) I can drive my Disco and the snowmobile for years and never get near his consumption.
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| 7th Oct 2006 3:10 pm |
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catweasel
Member Since: 05 May 2006
Location: Bundaleer
Posts: 4805
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show off 
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| 7th Oct 2006 3:13 pm |
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DaveT
Member Since: 01 Aug 2005
Location: Cornwall
Posts: 2572
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8)
"Showing off" doesn't really cover it!
"Falling off" is a bit inadequate too!
WOW! Long succession of Disco's since 2001...
SIII Lightweight - neglected & rusting. Bulkhead, A panels, vent panel & outriggers now disintegrated - Next years project!
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| 7th Oct 2006 10:39 pm |
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