After a couple of months searching for a tidy TDV8 FFRR within my budget I found myself in the local Mercedes dealership looking at a used ML420cdi. Apart from a 4.0l V8 diesel producing 306 bhp and 516 torques (!!!) which take it to 60 in 6.5 seconds, it has a full selection of toys and air suspension that means it "wafts" along in pretty much the same level of comfort as the RR. I appreciate it won't ultimately have the same off road ability as a FFRR but I don't need extreme capability, just the odd muddy track and snow in the winter.

Anyway, in the absence of a decent TDV8 FFRR for sub £35k, the fact that my budget won't run to a D4 and I think D3s are going to get caned for depreciation due to the desirability of the D4, after an adult lifetime of owning Land Rover products I've bought the Mercedes. So far so good, Mercedes service has been exemplary and the car is running like a dream. I hope I won't live to regret it......

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baldylocks wrote:

after an adult lifetime of owning Land Rover products I've bought the Mercedes.

What's a Mercedes?

I used to notice these things on the road when I had a D3 but since getting the FFRR TDV8 I only ever see FFRR's now. Everything else just blends into the myre of Vitara/shogun/kia boxes.

Hope you enjoy it all the same.  The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom

It's just not a Range Rover.

Each to their own though, as long as you're happy with it. I'm sure it will give you many miles of soulless motoring. 

driven by the lower classes, think my bank manager owns one - says a lot really

Vogue wrote:

driven by the lower classes, think my bank manager owns one - says a lot really

My bank manager is 20 something and pops chewing gum in meetings.... Oh sorry, was that your point?

 

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dan_uk_1984 wrote:

Vogue wrote:

driven by the lower classes, think my bank manager owns one - says a lot really

My bank manager is 20 something and pops chewing gum in meetings.... Oh sorry, was that your point?

Dan, you hit my nail on the head

JMC wrote:

baldylocks wrote:

after an adult lifetime of owning Land Rover products I've bought the Mercedes.

What's a Mercedes?

I used to notice these things on the road when I had a D3 but since getting the FFRR TDV8 I only ever see FFRR's now. Everything else just blends into the myre of Vitara/shogun/kia boxes.

Hope you enjoy it all the same.

With you all the way....

Isn't Mercedes translated in Albanian as "My Neighbours Donkey" ? Discovery 4 HSE
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RRUK wrote:

Isn't Mercedes translated in Albanian as "My Neighbours Donkey" ?

Close, but mercedes is in the 'feminine' so literal translation would be "my neighbours wifes donkey"

YOU,VE DONE WHAT BALDYLOCKS ! ? ! ? !

Well as the resident dyslexic if I understand this correctly hes gone off with his neighbours wife, lost the car and now has a donkey.