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Pelyma
  


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The Top 10 Worst Cars You can Buy

The Telegraph has an article today with this title https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/...-can-buy5/

I think they may have been smoking something, I get a Shogun Sport and a RAV4 and sort of understand a Jimny and Wrangler, but a FFRR Shocked
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FFRR Shocked

What’s the 10th? there’s only 9.
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Yes a bit odd.
  
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They more or less positively rave about the Jimny - as if reluctantly in the group.
  
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I think they're right. The tacky diamond turned wheels, strange trim choices etc mean it's in danger of being a bit, well, chav. Get a FFRR without the bling, just simple standard wheels, no strange paint and interior etc., and it's a lovely thing. But some of them are just tacky.

Also, they talk about its role being undefined. Again, I think they're right. The Range Rover started out as a more luxurious off road vehicle - but it was still an off road vehicle. Now, they're basically luxury cars which can go off road but almost never do. So they're competing with luxury saloons. And many of them are better alternatives unless one absolutely must have the high seating position.
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The original RR slogan was you can hose it inside and outside.

Interestingly their FFRR long term test ends like this:

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The Range Rover has reached the end of the road – our three-month loan period came to an abrupt halt all too soon and I’m already missing its multi-purpose ability on the driveway.

Whether it was carrying my exploding fridge to the recycling centre, ploughing out of the mud-soaked car park at Twickenham, or just reverting to being a luxury limo on the hack up the M40 to London, the ultimate Land Rover has tackled everything we’ve thrown at it with great aplomb.

Some might argue that the viability of giant off-roaders like the Range Rover is in doubt nowadays. Yet with Lamborghini, Bentley and Rolls-Royce joining the market and Aston Martin entering the fray later this year, there’s nothing to suggest SUVs are losing their appeal.

And even with Jaguar Land Rover’s current problems, the iconic status of the Range Rover means it will likely still be a favourite with the well-heeled in some shape or form 100 years from now.
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How an owner specs their FFRR doesn’t make the whole range one of the worst cars to buy.

And if I had the cash it would be the first car I’d buy.
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I have the cash and I'm moving away from the L405

The problem I have is no matter how good the GLS63 X750i the SQ7 G63 not one is a Range Rover and their lies my problem Rolling with laughter
  
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They’ve realised the error of their ways Laughing
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J77 wrote:
How an owner specs their FFRR doesn’t make the whole range one of the worst cars to buy.

And if I had the cash it would be the first car I’d buy.


LR offer the tacky stuff - I think that's the criticism.

I would also have a FFRR if the money was available. I think they're great but mine would definitely be more low key rather than the trinket boxes that some people spec. No shiny mirror caps and flip paint for me thanks!
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Red Merle wrote:
Oh dear, the link no longer works 🙁


The article seems to have been pulled as it’s not behind the paywall either.
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J77 wrote:
They’ve realised the error of their ways Laughing


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