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KurtVerbose

Member Since: 08 Aug 2010
Location: Les Arses
Posts: 5848

2007 Range Rover Vogue TDV8 Stornoway Grey

How the other half live - cheap to run + reliable

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Another Milestone For My Fiat 500

200000 miles

Loads of services
Quite a few tyres
1 radiator
1 set of glow plugs
1 inner CV joint
1 clutch (the clutch was ok release bearing failed)

Upgrades
DPF Delete
Straight through mandrel bend exhaust
Coilover kit
Abarth steering wheel
Abarth wheels
Abarth front discs and calipers (new)
Pipercross panel filter
AmD Tuning remap

I have also achieved 82 mpg on a tank of V power Diesel

Not been in a Fiat 500. Drive a rental Panda it's based on and wasn't that impressed. The driving position would've suited a gorilla and it was so top heavy there was no fun driving it.

26th Oct 2014 7:42pm

Rosco

Member Since: 20 Jan 2012
Location: Beyond the wall.
Posts: 2544

2013 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Baltic Blue

Kurt, what else would we spend our money on, drugs. women,alcohol, oh wait.........

26th Oct 2014 7:48pm

RiccartonRR

Member Since: 12 Jul 2014
Location: Scottish Borders
Posts: 724

I guess 82mpg is little recompense for 200000 miles of hell!!!!

Personally I'd rather boil my own head than drive a Fiat 500 - unless of course someone does a conversion to put one in the boot of a FullFat to save driving the real deal into city centres

26th Oct 2014 8:37pm

sasdiscos

Member Since: 16 Oct 2014
Location: Northants
Posts: 286

2010 Range Rover Vogue SE TDV8 Zambezi Silver

I drove a 500 abarth with a monza exhaust system. Very nice car I thought, so much so that I might get rid of the a5 cab for one for the missus.

26th Oct 2014 8:55pm

Rosco

Member Since: 20 Jan 2012
Location: Beyond the wall.
Posts: 2544

@riccartonl boil you head in a pot of stew... love it

26th Oct 2014 9:00pm

KurtVerbose

Member Since: 08 Aug 2010
Location: Les Arses
Posts: 5848

I think it would be a fun little car to drive for a while. Wouldn't want to get rid of my RR for one though, and a Fiat 500 would struggle to tow my 3500kg trailer.

To be honest, I like having a choice of vehicles. Just when you have a 12 year old car made my Land Rover and a 12 year old car made by Lotus you sometimes don't have a single working car to choose from!

26th Oct 2014 9:34pm

Cam-Tech-Craig

Member Since: 04 Aug 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 16176

2015 Range Rover SVAutobiography SDV8 Loire Blue

Some might say the worst of both worlds David

27th Oct 2014 12:23am

kingpleb

Member Since: 07 Jun 2011
Location: Maybe here. Maybe there, I get everywhere!
Posts: 8455

The thing I couldn't take with one and shared with the sport and disco as well is the constant banging of my knee on the centre console or running on it during trips. The full fats is nice and soft as is the citroens but hard cheap plastic there isn't for me. And a small car is meant to have a petrol engine that red lines 100rpm past peak power so as James May has said, you change gear when the tappets are dancing on the bonnet' 😄😄😄 FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
Mantec Sump Guard, Rigid Load liner, MY10 BT upgrade.

27th Oct 2014 11:10am

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