Touareg!! She loved it, hated *every* other car, 4x4 or anything. She wouldn't even go into a LR dealer!
Showed her this & she loved it to bits. I have to say it is a bloody nice car in the SE Sport trim option! It drives better than most 4x4's & you even get a day of 'off roading' free with it!
Should have it in a week or so!
Nige
-- Subaru WRX (Annabel)
Landrover 110 County Station Wagon (Tyson)
'"Say hello to my little friend"
wouldn't even go into a LR dealer!
car in the SE Sport trim
roading' free with it!
A V10 came up behind me on the M40. We both got held up, then the traffic cleared I pulled up to 80 and moved over and the V10 sailed past like it was on a mission.
Very impressed.
Im afriad to say that apart from a V8 Disco or Rangie I doubt there would be anything in the LR range that would compete.
Tim
I suspect the Range Rover Sport could probably keep up a bit.
P.
Until it broke down that is ;-)
David.
110 CSW
I doubt if even the sport would take on a V10 Toerag, it's an awesome package. Pity it's not a landrover product...... Badger.
On or around Thu, 7 Jul 2005 22:49:56 +0000 (UTC), "Badger" enlightened us thusly:
really, it's a pity that LR didn't get on the diesel thing better and sooner. There's a long history of LR not keeping up in diesel technology/performance. The TDi was a fine engine but at least 5 years too late, realistically, 10 years too late is not overstating the case, and it's till not really big enough. a 5-cylinder TDi with about 3-and-a-bit litres would have been a very good eninge indeed...
At the same time that other makers were supplying big diesels with enough grunt to cruise at 60 with a 2-ton trailer, LR were still supplying the 2.5 TDi which although it provides plenty of power for any foreseeable purpose, even in 2-ton vechiles like the disco, nevertheless leaves you going down the box and doing 35 mph on motorway hills with a heavy trailer, which puts people off. I've towed 3 tons with our 300 TDi, and it does it fine. But on any sort of hill, you just end up going slowly. And that's a reaonably-sorted one, which is capable, solo and on a suitable road (or was last time I tried) of indicating 100 mph.
The TD5 is good, too, but is still too small, and has the lack of low-end torque to count against it as well. If they'd based the not-built TD4 on a
2.5 capaicty as per the Tdi, then the TD5 would have been about 3.1 and the proposed TD6 would have come out at about 3.8 - and as a result, you'd have had power to spare and probably more torque as well.
I did actually try a V10 & it flew, but it's way too expensive!
The 2.5tdi is good enough for the missus, if it where me......................
Should have it next Wednesday, first thing I'm gonna do it take it to the local quarry & get it good & dirty! (the car I mean!!)
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