On 2005-07-18, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
> Ian Rawlings <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ignore Steve, he was plainly abused by a landrover when a small child.
>
> Are your reading skills hitting some all time low?
Errr plainly yes, I have no idea why I read that into what you wrote,
must be my "Steve's off on one again" goggles getting in the way...
Humbly apologise..
> I said quite the opposite of your interpretation. I pointed out that
> the Land Rover is capable off road and why would anyone want to swap
> one for a vehicle that is less capable off road and not much cop on
> road.
Sorry! <rubs soap into eyes>
> Yes, there's this strange concept of a "paint shop" where one can
> take a vehicle and pay someone to respray it if necessary.
As the owner of an 9 year old landy I'm not familiar with the concept!
It doesn't last long anyway, the worst part is the vegetation
scratching the gloss of the surface in one single trip, I took a
friend out after he'd painted his truck, warned him about it but he
didn't believe me... until afterwards ;-) It went from gloss all over
to matt all over, not just a couple of scratches but thousands of tiny
ones. Mind you a shiny Series 2A looks daft anyway.
> The type that thinks that taking a vehicle off-road is all about
> throwing it down a lane a 50MPH+ straight at the nearest tree then I
> can understand why one would get a little precious about damage to
> the paintwork.
Blimey, fastest I've ever been off-road is about 10MPH, 50MPH on the
green lanes around here would be scary..
A chap at work said that if he went off-roading he'd just have the
pedal to the metal all the time. I took him out on the road in my
Defender, first corner we went round at normal speed he's scrabbling
away at the dashboard in panic for something to hold onto as he
thought it was tipping over! He went white as a sheet, and afterwards
scornfully told me that his friend's 4x4 drives just like a car..
"What is it?" I asked expectantly. "Toyota RAV-4" he said..
> The Korando isn't a "chelsea tractor" that term is reserved almost
> exclusively for the Range Rover which is <gasp> a Land Rover
> product.
Nah, there's plenty of pretenders to the crown, Landrover just started
it with the original Range Rover, but at least back then it had some
off-road potential, which the current crop have more than the
competitors in the class but certainly not serious any more.
> Maybe next time you may want to try correcting your rectal/oral
> inversion problem before you speak?
In this case yes, perhaps I should, some advice on the subjet from a
master would be nice ;-)
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