Henry_b

Henry_b

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Yes i know the RRC is the original "Classic" but in your opinions which model is next in line for classic status?

And i've been told RRC were rather cheap a few years ago, do you regret getting rid of your then cheap classic Range Rovers?

When considering some good ones are now worth quite a substantial amount?
 
Now Kid listen 'ere

I've owned range rovers for going on 20yrs, back in the late 90s and early 2000s they were everywhere and very cheap.

I picked up my diesel one in 1999. admittedly my favourite and drove it into the ground.

I would take it across fields and bury it up to the bumpers in cow shyte and sludge.

And tbh it rotted away

And honestly i never gave 2 ****s.

It was the same with V8 RRC in early 2000s they could be had for a few hundred quid.

so many people including myself bought them for cheap and drove them till they failed and then scrapped 'em.

They only started to rise in value when their numbers started to diminish.

Do i regret selling them???

Ha NO!!

Phwoah the V8s were a hoot to drive.

I have moments of regret but i realise how much better the P38 is and get over it

The next Classic is the P38 it has all the good off road qualities of the Classics plus a better driving position, more power and an infinitely better car to drive handling wise.

L322's are ok but far too bling for my tastes, once this generation came out the RR lost its country gent charm and rugged good looks in favour of bling and chrome plus an overly complicated electronics system that makes fixing the P38 look like a fukin walk in the park.
 
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P38 are a classic. They aren't modern in any sense really. They are out of time. That v8 in any car would be a classic(even when it was new).gems was the last hurrah of the all British(not really!) Range Rover. Value doesn't enter into it really. It wasn't even intentional it just happened Rover was broke and could never really develop new stuff. The p38 is at the end of a long line of developments.the l322 is modern in every way.whilst looking a bit like the previous ones! (In unblinged factory spec anyways)
 
Next will be P38, wait a few more years it will be the L322 in original factory spec without all the added bling, wait another couple of decades it will be the L405.
Like any vehicle, it becomes a 'classic' if it survives long enough and has the four main ingredients : style, rarity, character and that 'certain something' you just can't put your finger on, usually with a Range Rover that's because it'll fall apart if you put your finger on it ;)
Being Range Rover there will always be those of us dumb enough to fall in love with them. In 40yrs a lot of the 'anything with electrics can't be a classic ' brigade will no longer be around. Even some of us with the 'electrics dont stop them becoming classics' brigade, will also be gone and a different generation will be rescuing L322s and restoring them, others will be finding well looked after L405s and keeping them running.

I doubt that in the 1960s or 70s anyone thought a Vauxhall Viva or a Hillman Imp would be classics but they and many of their ilk now are. So people can knock the later models all they like , personally I think that the love of the marque will continue through all variants, (but not all the offshoots). In a few decades it will be a new generation posting on these sites and they will be the ones to decide.
 
gold rover said:
Next will be P38, wait a few more years it will be the L322 in original factory spec without all the added bling, wait another couple of decades it will be the L405.
Like any vehicle, it becomes a 'classic' if it survives long enough and has the four main ingredients : style, rarity, character and that 'certain something' you just can't put your finger on, usually with a Range Rover that's because it'll fall apart if you put your finger on it ;)
Being Range Rover there will always be those of us dumb enough to fall in love with them. In 40yrs a lot of the 'anything with electrics can't be a classic ' brigade will no longer be around. Even some of us with the 'electrics dont stop them becoming classics' brigade, will also be gone and a different generation will be rescuing L322s and restoring them, others will be finding well looked after L405s and keeping them running.

I doubt that in the 1960s or 70s anyone thought a Vauxhall Viva or a Hillman Imp would be classics but they and many of their ilk now are. So people can knock the later models all they like , personally I think that the love of the marque will continue through all variants, (but not all the offshoots). In a few decades it will be a new generation posting on these sites and they will be the ones to decide.
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Ya 3000th post ;)

The above is brilliant.
 
gold rover said:
Next will be P38, wait a few more years it will be the L322 in original factory spec without all the added bling, wait another couple of decades it will be the L405.
Like any vehicle, it becomes a 'classic' if it survives long enough and has the four main ingredients : style, rarity, character and that 'certain something' you just can't put your finger on, usually with a Range Rover that's because it'll fall apart if you put your finger on it ;)
Being Range Rover there will always be those of us dumb enough to fall in love with them. In 40yrs a lot of the 'anything with electrics can't be a classic ' brigade will no longer be around. Even some of us with the 'electrics dont stop them becoming classics' brigade, will also be gone and a different generation will be rescuing L322s and restoring them, others will be finding well looked after L405s and keeping them running.

I doubt that in the 1960s or 70s anyone thought a Vauxhall Viva or a Hillman Imp would be classics but they and many of their ilk now are. So people can knock the later models all they like , personally I think that the love of the marque will continue through all variants, (but not all the offshoots). In a few decades it will be a new generation posting on these sites and they will be the ones to decide.
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I doubt if Range Rovers will be used on the roads in 40 years time, or any other IC engined vehicle, for that matter.
 
With LandRover introducing the Classic car Restoration program i doubt there will be a shortage of classic Range Rovers or Land rovers in the future ;)
 
Henry_b said:
I guess we will have to wait and see ;)
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We will. But the writing is already on the wall.
Already clear that no new IC engined vehicles will be sold after 2040. I would guess that the authorities will give it 10 years to allow for natural wastage to remove the older ones, and then ban them too.
 
Turboman said:
We will. But the writing is already on the wall.
Already clear that no new IC engined vehicles will be sold after 2040. I would guess that the authorities will give it 10 years to allow for natural wastage to remove the older ones, and then ban them too.
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At my age, it will not bother me.
 
gold rover said:
Next will be P38, wait a few more years it will be the L322 in original factory spec without all the added bling, wait another couple of decades it will be the L405.
Like any vehicle, it becomes a 'classic' if it survives long enough and has the four main ingredients : style, rarity, character and that 'certain something' you just can't put your finger on, usually with a Range Rover that's because it'll fall apart if you put your finger on it ;)
Being Range Rover there will always be those of us dumb enough to fall in love with them. In 40yrs a lot of the 'anything with electrics can't be a classic ' brigade will no longer be around. Even some of us with the 'electrics dont stop them becoming classics' brigade, will also be gone and a different generation will be rescuing L322s and restoring them, others will be finding well looked after L405s and keeping them running.

I doubt that in the 1960s or 70s anyone thought a Vauxhall Viva or a Hillman Imp would be classics but they and many of their ilk now are. So people can knock the later models all they like , personally I think that the love of the marque will continue through all variants, (but not all the offshoots). In a few decades it will be a new generation posting on these sites and they will be the ones to decide.
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I wonder about the L405, rarer than hens teeth here in France, I wonder if it is actually a big seller in Europe?
RR Sport seems the most common of the new generation, plenty of L322's about but the numbers are declining, early one's seem to sell for less than a good P38.
 
Turboman said:
I doubt if Range Rovers will be used on the roads in 40 years time, or any other IC engined vehicle, for that matter.
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Nothing new there then. We rarely use them on the roads now
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Datatek said:
At my age, it will not bother me.
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Me neither. I am fairly close to giving up driving altogether, except maybe the odd hire car.
Driving isn't much of a pleasure any more, at least in the UK, the roads are crowded, and there are roadworks everywhere.
I can get pretty much everything I need within walking distance of the boat.

And most young people I speak too seem to take the environmental and social concerns about motoring seriously, and don't seem to have the same attachment to motoring that previous generations had.
 
Turboman said:
Me neither. I am fairly close to giving up driving altogether, except maybe the odd hire car.
Driving isn't much of a pleasure any more, at least in the UK, the roads are crowded, and there are roadworks everywhere.
I can get pretty much everything I need within walking distance of the boat.

And most young people I speak too seem to take the environmental and social concerns about motoring seriously, and don't seem to have the same attachment to motoring that previous generations had.
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Apparently there ar 30 million vehicles registered in the UK. I wonder how many of those are second , or third, vehicles for LR/RR owners, for when their green oval breaks down, again :D
 
gold rover said:
Apparently there ar 30 million vehicles registered in the UK. I wonder how many of those are second , or third, vehicles for LR/RR owners, for when their green oval breaks down, again :D
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And some the other way round, people who have a daily driver, and use the landrover for dump trips at the weekend, or a bit of laneing, or just keep it in case there is snow.

At the moment I am in the affluent Home Counties, commuter belt just outside London, and multiple vehicle ownership seem to be the norm around here, there are plenty of driveways with 3 or 4 cars on them, sometimes more.
 
Turboman said:
Me neither. I am fairly close to giving up driving altogether, except maybe the odd hire car.
Driving isn't much of a pleasure any more, at least in the UK, the roads are crowded, and there are roadworks everywhere.
I can get pretty much everything I need within walking distance of the boat.

And most young people I speak too seem to take the environmental and social concerns about motoring seriously, and don't seem to have the same attachment to motoring that previous generations had.
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Motoring is still a pleasure in France away from Paris and some other big cities.
 
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