Christmas come early

Evening all,

After deciding last year I needed something a bit faster as my daily, my poor disco got banished to the drive, was declared sorn and left to willow away.

After putting the daily through it's paces I started to detect myself moving back towards my younger years of driving style, like a w@nk3r so I booked the landy in for an mot and as if by magic it went straight through.

After driving home today and getting stuck in what felt the worst traffic jam ever, I was swearing and cursing like a hardman in a school playground at lunchtime. I then came home and behaved like a troll to my wife. After a tummy full of dinner, a cuppa and a biscuit and a sorry and a kiss I've realised the problem.

Driving a normal car turns you into a beast like everyone else on a 9 to 5. I've spent the last 10 minutes looking and my landy and even smelling the stale interior which I so much missed. I've ordered a new fan belt and tensioner bearing and am going to insure her tomorrow. By the weekend we will be back in each others arms and I won't have a care in the world.

The daily will be sold and some other unfortunate person will be overridden with misery.

The moral of the story is the slower and clunky the car the better the drive home. Now I just have the snow to wait for and I can watch them run for the hills whilst I blast up them! Fookin whahey!

Glad to hear it, I've gone from driving LWB 7 series BMW's for a living to a 300tdi Disco, never been happier despite the BMW luxuries. Drove the BM's way too fast, but somehow kept my license clean. Disco's may not be the fastest things around, but driven right, they're a lot more enjoyable.

I can identify with what your saying. If I drive my Defender then I arrive at my destination in a mellow frame of mind and even when knackered I am still patient. But if I make the journey in my daily drive (not a Landy) then the journey becomes a tense fraught affair.

every time i get into my rangie i get 10 X more relaxed one of my dads mates is one of the top guys at RBS 43rd floor out of 44 and drives a battered old 300tdi disco into the car park, muddy, dented surrounded by rolls royce and bmw's and couldn't care less

OP - you are so right!

I had a 3 series Beamer before this Fender. No contest. It took a while to acclimatise to the garden shed interior and NASA launchpad-like handling of the LR, but now I have and I love it. I tend to drive at 55mph max and just take it very easy when accelerating.

It rarely seems attract tailgators and assorted other knobends (what's the point - I ain't going faster....and that's it, so either go around or stay there and if you want to eat my towbar, be my guest!). I never get annoyed on the road these days - just laugh now and then.

I love my 90

I was exactly the same sold my landy to get a bmw worst mistake I ever made had it 3 weeks sold it and brought a disco and there was me thinking I really needed a bmw in my life

I am the same! Whenever I break my Landy, I borrow a Ford Fiesta and I drive like a ****..

Jump in the Defender and I am more relaxed, more patient and my whole attitude changes toward driving. Quite strange really!

Wow, some nice replies and glad to know I'm not the only one. Parts arrived today and it put a big smile on my face, insurance is gonna cost me £260 fully comp. Too many reasons not to jump back in the Landy.

Branded Fan Belt - £8
Wiper Blades Full Set - £8
Tensioner Bearing - £5

No electric gadgets to go wrong either!

I love my disco.

I wouldn't admit to owning/driving a BMW, particularly on a public forum