What's your favourite 4x4 ?

[IR35 Avoider]

We need to step back when we can’t make a big enough downpayment for the Maserati & say: “Well, the roof hasn’t fallen in, my kids are healthy & I’m really pretty happy with the old Honda.”

Indeed, I've taken a small detour from the path of virtue this week, but in general I have everything material that I want. Certainly everything I'm prepared to sell chunks of my life for, anyway.

[IR35 Avoider]

Don't like 4x4s, but if I had to have one I would go for the Nissan Terrano.

[AlfredJPruffock]

If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.
—OSCAR WILDE


Men tend, I think—more than women—to get bound up in wanting “things.” I’m not talking about the proverbial roof over our heads, or a few good suits, or even a car that can be counted on to start when you turn the key. I mean the big things: The BMW, the Big Vacation Home at the Lake, the Armani Suits, the Platinum Card. And what if we fill our lives & every corner of our houses with these things? It still doesn’t save us from finally, one day, in confronting ourselves in what all the accumulated stuff really means to us.

And, of course, as usual, Oscar Wilde was right.


We need to step back when we can’t make a big enough downpayment for the Maserati & say: “Well, the roof hasn’t fallen in, my kids are healthy & I’m really pretty happy with the old Honda.”


I will try to think about what kinds of things I really need as opposed to what kind of things I think I deserve. I will try to concentrate more on filling my life with things that can stand the test of time.

[Chico]

yeah but it's not much bigger inside than my skoda estate

these days, as Benes Invoicing Ltd is now 3, a car with plenty of space matters, hence the leaning towards the big Jeep

Milan.

Yes but compared to an estate car how much bigger is the Jeep? Most 4x4s have the same amount of interior seating and space as a normalfamily car.

[hyperD]

Milan

As you know I am in the market for a new car and as such faced with differing requirements, such as growing family, keyless car etc

Would have thought this would have been right up your street, Chico...

[milanbenes]

yeah but it's not much bigger inside than my skoda estate

these days, as Benes Invoicing Ltd is now 3, a car with plenty of space matters, hence the leaning towards the big Jeep

Milan.

[malvolio]

Subaru Forester 2.5 XT (but wait for the updated one in September). Faster than almost everything else including the Porsche Cayenne, handles, goes, got all the toys, doesn't break down. And doesn't make you look like a total winker.

Range Rover and Freelander are better for going downhill in the mud - but if you're doing that regularly, then get a real Landie. Everything else depends on how much you want to impress teh neighbours and annoy Red Ken

[milanbenes]

Hello Chico,

please not back to the Laguna.

Well I cannot argue with the Audi, they are awesome, but why not go for the 2.5 diesel quattro, speed, safety, efficiency

What do you think of the Grand Cherokee 2.7 5 cylinder diesel, I am tempted to trade up to one of these from the Skoda in the next 12 months

I just discovered the 2.7 diesel in the Grand Cherokee is derived from the 2.7 diesel in the Mercedes

Milan.

[Chico]

Milan

As you know I am in the market for a new car and as such faced with differing requirements, such as growing family, keyless car etc I considered a two 4x4's namely Discovery 3 and Nissan Pathfinder however I have ruled both out. Mainly because speed is off the essence for me - driving in a diesel does not do it for me. On the other hand going for 4.2 petrol would not only be uneconomical it would be plain stupid. As such the Chico family are now looking at A6 Avant 2.4 fully loaded. Fast, sleek,safe and environmentally
sound.



Failing that its back to the Laguna

[milanbenes]

aye,

without a doubt they are safer in an accident

Milan.

[sasguru]

Chelsea tractors are for the deeply uncool and w*ankers. Which category do you belong to Milan? Oh I forgot - both.

[milanbenes]

granted,

they are excellent and any decent local mechanic/fitter, not to mention a handy diy'er can maintain the old girls, spare parts are in abundance and everybody has a softspot for the old landies plus you can pick em up cheap and they won't devalue

do you have one ?

that's the one with the two headlights in the radiator grill and is it the 2.25 diesel ?

does it have free wheeling hubs, you have to get out in the mud to engage the locks ?

Milan.

[milanbenes]

assuming you're not too hard up and you had a choice of all,

which 4x4 would you get ?

we all know big 4x4's are safer on the road, higher up driving position, more metal around you as protection so which would it be ?

Me, unsure, from a practical perspective the strong 4.2 diesel and load carrying capabilities of the big Toyota Landcruiser make it the winner, but on the otherside the Volvo XC90 and the RangeRover are big machines too

the X5 is a bit too BMW show off-ish and the Mercedes ML is too small on the inside, the VW Toerag is too highly price for a VW

What does the jury think ?

Milan.