The Mad Hat Man said:i not moanin any more - i just drivin my X-trail
The Mad Hat Man said:dont have a go - i bin gettin enuf stick sayin - "stop moanin and get shot if ya dont like it!" then i do and yu still give me stick!!
yu askin for my resignation?
I was not referring to the Army's Land Rover's m8.In fact it was the Range Rover's and Land Rover's belonging to company's like ITN and the BBC.They were the laughing stock amongst other reporting teams in the Gulf.I cannot understand why people are so quick to jump to the defence of something that is quite obviously not up to standard and yet they feel it is their patriotic duty to rubbish another marque just because they don't like the name.I have owned both a Jeep and a L/R Freelander and am speaking from my own experience,so what am I expected to say,that the Freelander is a trouble free,reliable,fantastic motor car and that the Jeep is a pile of rubbish.I don't think so.I will buy another L/R when Landrover as a company admit that the faults on this unreliable,badly designed,excuse for a car actually exist and offer the customer reliable service and repairs,rather than making stupid excuses for their shortcomings.Something else that should not be missed is that L/R are in fact owned by an American company.If people are of the masochistic genre and like to be crapped on,then who am I to interfere with their wishes.Boxer said:I'm sure that was a wolf in the classic shot of Sadams palace doors going in!
The main problem with LRs in the gulf , or anywhere else seems to be the British Army underfunding squaddies equipment budget, something they are rectifying by paying them more to go into action armed only with a banana or some other fruit.
Anyway , i was in the pub the other night, guy i know ,but haven't seen for a while comes in. He runs a national company that hires out all types of 4x4 , and he says.... 'We've got over a hundred Frrelanders , not many 1.8s i siuspect, and they are a good truck!' They can't all be bad, there are some marques he won't stock.I don't think he has many Jeeps. He runs a FL commercial himself and thinks it fine.
slob said:ere daft **** man did you really spend over six grand in a year on yer paperweight???