NJW5007
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Good evening. It looks highly likely that after many, many years trying to find the slightest justification for owning a Range Rover that I may actually be getting one. Okay so it is an old P38 2.5 oilburner, which is not exactly what I wanted, but it is a Range Rover so there.
I have always tried to buy British, my first car being a Morris Marina 1.3 estate. To borrow a phrase from a well known "Hamster", I was a driving god.
I have since driven Austins, Rovers, MGs, Jaguars my latest being a 2010 Jaguar XF 3.0 diesel which went seriously bang 1 year and 4 days after I bought it. Which brings me nicely onto my current vehicle. You see I was in a panic when my XF went kerplow, kersplat and similar and needed a car quickly, (this is me trying to justify my choice) so being lulled into false security by the popular fallacy "If you want reliable you need to buy German" I ended up with a BMW X5. Not the best car I have ever had by any means, a cascade of electrical faults and niggling pain in the rectum problems that I was meant to be avoiding, cost me a fair bit to put right.
Anyway, having spent mahoosive pounds of cash on the panzer it is finally okay.
But being an X5 it is not really big enough for all the tools, equipment, chopped up wives that I tend to carry. Ideally I need a van, but the last thing I want is a van. Therefore I need something as capacious as an elephants scrotum, British, able to carry passengers, cooler than a penguins cod-piece. The only answer is either a Disco' or a Range Rover, so RR here I come. ( probably).
I have always tried to buy British, my first car being a Morris Marina 1.3 estate. To borrow a phrase from a well known "Hamster", I was a driving god.
I have since driven Austins, Rovers, MGs, Jaguars my latest being a 2010 Jaguar XF 3.0 diesel which went seriously bang 1 year and 4 days after I bought it. Which brings me nicely onto my current vehicle. You see I was in a panic when my XF went kerplow, kersplat and similar and needed a car quickly, (this is me trying to justify my choice) so being lulled into false security by the popular fallacy "If you want reliable you need to buy German" I ended up with a BMW X5. Not the best car I have ever had by any means, a cascade of electrical faults and niggling pain in the rectum problems that I was meant to be avoiding, cost me a fair bit to put right.
Anyway, having spent mahoosive pounds of cash on the panzer it is finally okay.
But being an X5 it is not really big enough for all the tools, equipment, chopped up wives that I tend to carry. Ideally I need a van, but the last thing I want is a van. Therefore I need something as capacious as an elephants scrotum, British, able to carry passengers, cooler than a penguins cod-piece. The only answer is either a Disco' or a Range Rover, so RR here I come. ( probably).
