I'm going to admit this is not totally range rover related but it is partially...!
To cut a long story short I'm going to become a dad in a few months (August) and some attention to has turned to the automotive situation in the household. We currently have:
2013 Astravan (my work vehicle)
2008 BMW 116i SE (which is my other halfs car)
2006 BMW 650i (which is my car)
1999 P38 4.6 HSE (which is general utility machine etc)
The problem essentially comes from my other half having bought the most enormous silvercross pram she could find. It is astonishing any larger and I'd expect to need a flatbed for it. So the only vaguely useful vehicle we have is actually the range rover.
Astra isnt mine so has to stay (belongs to work), the 1 series shes only had for 6 months and doesn't want to sell it but she is panicking that she needs something bigger so we have been looking at Vaux Insignias. I've had my 650i for almost a year and actually its more practical than you would think, has ISOFIX and a massive boot, but having seem the pram I'm not sure it will go in now and a big coupe really isnt the machine for the job sadly.
So really I'm thinking I'm going to have to replace my P38 and the 650i with something and that's where I'm having a hard time my heart screams that I want a Supercharged L322 but then my head goes that's just financial, emotional and physical ruin and the massive annoyance that its nowhere near as fast as the 650i or as economical whilst being a bit nice for throwing rubbish in the back of and hooking a ratty old trailer up to go to the tip etc.
So I say keep the P38 and buy something else to replace the 650i but then I'm still running two cars (plus hers) and really I should be scaling back a bit and trying to save some money
Obviously any sensible person would say change the pram but having approached that subject its been "mentioned" that its not an option... However she has just text me saying she might like a "4x4 style" vehicle instead of the insignia...
So I'll open it the floor, what do I buy? and for that matter what does she buy? I've a budget of about 12k could maybe push that a bit if I have to and the other half has about 7k to spend again for the right machine we could push that a touch.
To cut a long story short I'm going to become a dad in a few months (August) and some attention to has turned to the automotive situation in the household. We currently have:
2013 Astravan (my work vehicle)
2008 BMW 116i SE (which is my other halfs car)
2006 BMW 650i (which is my car)
1999 P38 4.6 HSE (which is general utility machine etc)
The problem essentially comes from my other half having bought the most enormous silvercross pram she could find. It is astonishing any larger and I'd expect to need a flatbed for it. So the only vaguely useful vehicle we have is actually the range rover.
Astra isnt mine so has to stay (belongs to work), the 1 series shes only had for 6 months and doesn't want to sell it but she is panicking that she needs something bigger so we have been looking at Vaux Insignias. I've had my 650i for almost a year and actually its more practical than you would think, has ISOFIX and a massive boot, but having seem the pram I'm not sure it will go in now and a big coupe really isnt the machine for the job sadly.
So really I'm thinking I'm going to have to replace my P38 and the 650i with something and that's where I'm having a hard time my heart screams that I want a Supercharged L322 but then my head goes that's just financial, emotional and physical ruin and the massive annoyance that its nowhere near as fast as the 650i or as economical whilst being a bit nice for throwing rubbish in the back of and hooking a ratty old trailer up to go to the tip etc.
So I say keep the P38 and buy something else to replace the 650i but then I'm still running two cars (plus hers) and really I should be scaling back a bit and trying to save some money
Obviously any sensible person would say change the pram but having approached that subject its been "mentioned" that its not an option... However she has just text me saying she might like a "4x4 style" vehicle instead of the insignia...
So I'll open it the floor, what do I buy? and for that matter what does she buy? I've a budget of about 12k could maybe push that a bit if I have to and the other half has about 7k to spend again for the right machine we could push that a touch.
