(, Wed 2 Feb 2022, 21:01, Reply)
In other vehicle news, Range Rover explodes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60229619
I reckon it dieseled itself to death.
(, Wed 2 Feb 2022, 21:14, Reply)
That’s a flash motor for such a modest gaff.
(, Wed 2 Feb 2022, 21:40, Reply)
Yeah I wondered too, divorce springs to mind.
Edit: Whoa! Candles on the wrong day.
(, Wed 2 Feb 2022, 22:04, Reply)
In the 90s when my brother moved there, it was common for people to have a car parked on the drive that cost more than the house. (House prices have outstripped all sense since, of course.) Along a row of old Welsh slate terraced houses, you'd see Mercedes, BMW, etc - not a Golf or Corsa in sight.
People want to live where they live, and the cheap housing leaves them with plenty of spare cash for a "nice" car - whatever that means to them.
(, Thu 3 Feb 2022, 8:23, Reply)
Had a mate who worked in a Range Rover dealership. He reckoned nobody who bought one could actually afford it.
(, Thu 3 Feb 2022, 10:42, Reply)
The company I work for sees a lot of professional country types (landowners, estate managers, etc) and the majority of them won't touch Range Rovers because they are the most bloated, unreliable pieces of excess imaginable. They're the ultimate 'lifestyle' status vehicle for tossers with more money than sense.
People see footballers/royals driving about in them and think "That must be a right good motor, that!", and I suspect the ones that end up keeping them past their 63rd mechanical/electrical fault only do so because they're too proud/egotistical to admit they've made a huge mistake in purchasing a vehicle that instantly lost half its value the moment it drove off the forecourt. Spontaneously bursting into flames is practically a feature at this point.
(, Wed 2 Feb 2022, 22:55, Reply)
Something to do with the value/ease of nicking/ease of fencing ratio that makes thieves target em. Saw a police lockup of what looked like hundreds of them interspersed with other makes, waiting to be destroyed
(, Wed 2 Feb 2022, 23:50, Reply)
www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/10065543.bradley-farmer-rammed-couples-car/
(, Thu 3 Feb 2022, 9:00, Reply)
The farmer's been cleared of dangerous driving and criminal damage.
(, Fri 4 Feb 2022, 18:30, Reply)