Turns out, Landrovers fly almost as well as they drive :)

ironpants · Post by **ironpants** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:11 pm

A few years ago, when my wife bought her Pathfinder, she mentioned she always wanted a Landrover. Being the atentive husband I am, I bought her a used Discovery about 18 months ago. Please don't get too wound up about the cost of a landrover, they drop in resale pretty fast. When we bought this one, the only other truck in competition was a Nissan with the same age and mileage.

This past Saturday, we were driving out to my inlaws house in the boonies neer four mounds, when an oncomming honda sedan forced us of the icy road at about 35 miles per hour. The ditch was about 4 feet deep and there was an 8 foot berm on the other side of the ditch, my wife tried to recover, but at the last moment pointed it perfectly so we wouldn't flip. After going into the ditch and bouncing off that big old berm, we hit a small telephone pole ( about 6" by 6") scared the hell outa me.

So here's the sales pitch, we managed to screw up both the front and rear bumpers and the hood is pretty wrinkled, but we both got out of the truck healty enough to curse like sailers. If I had any question of the stoutness of this truck, it's over now. If you EVER get hit by a telephone pole at 35 miles per hour, I'm convinced it's best to do it in a landrover

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Post by **bio** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:44 pm

My sister had a Land Rover Discovery for a while (and you're right about the price on a used one... totally affordable).

That thing would go through EVERYTHING (which she loved to demonstrate when you least expected it).

They're extremely good vehicles (though if anything breaks... be prepared to pay through the nose).

Post by **eddiecanuck** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:26 pm

Wow, that sucks. Glad to hear you're both okay though.

Good thing you weren't in Suzuki Aerio, you'd have been killed.

ironpants · Post by **ironpants** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:09 pm

bio wrote: They're extremely good vehicles (though if anything breaks... be prepared to pay through the nose).

Yeah, I've got two of them now, both built while BMW owned LandRover (before Ford bought them) they're both expensive to fix, but they're running Bosh Motronic, so it's a LONG time between EMS issues so all is well. Beyond that, the Disco has good old fashioned Allison running gear so any shop here in Spokane can take care of the transmission, so it's not as bad as it seems if you're a little resoucefull.

Besides, we find ourselves out in the toolies a bit, as this weekend proved, and even in a ditch after hitting a telephone pole with everything covered in ice, I DROVE out cause the tow truck couldn't pull us out

BTW, pics surely to follow...

Post by **bio** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:15 pm

eddiecanuck wrote:Good thing you weren't in Suzuki Aerio, you'd have been killed.

ROFL!!

Not with the Suzuki Aerio's 5 star crash rating (and best buy status). It's actually safer than the Dodge Ram 1500

Post by **eddiecanuck** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:24 am

Sure, throw statistics into this. Fucker.

baldy · Post by **baldy** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:58 pm

96.543% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

ironpants · Post by **ironpants** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:47 pm

I've been working professionally with data and statistics for a number of years. There's two lesons I've learned over the years.

Figures never lie.

Liers alway figure.

I leave it to you to figure out how that silly little Suzuki fits in to this

BTW, I've noticed about a 5% increase in misleading power point presentations over the past year...