Wonder what happened before, to provoke that.
In other vehicle news, Range Rover explodes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60229619
I reckon it dieseled itself to death.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 2 Feb 2022, 21:14,
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I think the last few seconds make it fairly clear how things got to where they did.
That’s a flash motor for such a modest gaff.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 2 Feb 2022, 21:40,
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Knobheads
Yeah I wondered too, divorce springs to mind.
Edit: Whoa! Candles on the wrong day.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 2 Feb 2022, 22:04,
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Happy candles!
Careful you don't light up any cars with all those!
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IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Thu 3 Feb 2022, 9:24,
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You are now old enough for L plates. Congrats.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 3 Feb 2022, 11:05,
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I know the area quite well, and that's fairly typical
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.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Thu 3 Feb 2022, 8:23,
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Had a mate who worked in a Range Rover dealership. He reckoned nobody who bought one could actually afford it.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 3 Feb 2022, 10:42,
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All that drug money won't spend itself
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 3 Feb 2022, 18:39,
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They're honestly some of the most dogshit motors on the road.
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.
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also one of the most stolen motors in Britain, according to some coppers
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
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 2 Feb 2022, 23:50,
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