Land Rovers/Range Rovers

[WVaHillbilly]

Are they the best 4x4 made ?

 

[timb]

Would depend on your defnition of 'best'. I believe they have a horrible track record for reliability. They are (IMO of course) seriously overpriced for the level of about anything you want to measure (performance on or off road, features, safety) compared to a lot of the competition. But they also have some design features you don't find in some posers that keep them more effective in true off road situations.

 

[RoyJackson]

Depends what you want...if a serious off road machine that you don't have to build up, I'd suggest a Hummer, CJ Jeep or one of the old Toyota Land Cruisers or old Land Rovers (the real thing, not the one they sell now).
Another one to consider would be a Mercedes Benz Unimog.
But, none of those are "luxury" 4x4's (which are about a useless thing as you can get, except for driving in snow).

I have a Ford Explorer...nice machine, but I know I'd never take it off road. The 4WD is strictly for getting me through snowy/slushy conditions.

 

[Podunkadunk]

They're pricey and maintenance is expensive. My sister had a Land Rover, 1999model. She had to drive to either Birmingham or Jacksonville, FL to get it serviced. That's because there's no dealer nearby. She had originally bought it in Colorado when she lived out there.

She loved it and misses it, even today.

I think if I were in that kind of market and had unlimited fundage, I'd go for the Toyota Landcruiser. I don't think you can get into one for under 50k, not sure...'bout like a 200 dollar AK-47(inside joke)....haha.

Podunk

 

[Jimbrown]

Well the last time I was in Tanzania We had a quide driving a landrover. When he found out that I owned a jeep he was jeoulous. His opinion was that a Land Rover was OK for some one who took very good care of it and did not let paid drivers drive it but that a jeep was a far better machine. And we had this dicussion some where in the middle of the Seringedi plains. The closest dealer of any kind was a two day drive.

 

[SnowRidge]

Are they the best 4x4 made ?

They are excellent...............for going to the country club and letting people know just how much disposable income you have.

 

[DieselPower]

Nope, the best factory 4X4 made is a Unimog. Oh, did I mention, I'm not into frills and gizmo's in my truck.

 

[SnowRidge]

Nope, the best factory 4X4 made is a Unimog. Oh, did I mention, I'm not into frills and gizmo's in my truck.

I hope they build them better now than they did in the 70's. Windshield wipers that didn't have enough oomph to move more than two snowflakes at a time, and heater that couldn't begin to keep the windshield from fogging up.

We had to cut a slot in the engine cowl and tape a piece of cardboard in place to get any heat onto the windshield. It wasn't enough, though. We still ended up plowing the road with our heads sticking out the driver's window in order to see.

Clutches were $300 a pop, not including labor, and that was 35+ years ago, and in The Fatherland, at that. We went through quite a few clutches, too. Try to feather stage two, and it went out. We had more than one person who couldn't master the two stage clutch and either blew the snow blower's shear pins or fried the clutch because they couldn't understand the simple instructions, "Feather stage one at idle, hit the throttle, and pop stage two." A couple of mistakes on stage two, and the clutch was history.

Nothing soured me on Mercedes engineering like that thing.

 

[Double Orange]

Are they the best 4x4 made? NO

 

[Egon]

Buy one. Give use a report on serviceability.