Pointless Urban 4x4s

I've said it before but what is the point of buying a Grand Cherokee
5.7 Litre Hemi and then slowing down to 2 mile an hour an every time
there's a road hump?

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Mo wrote

What a stupid question. Really.
It is because they are irremediable conceited brainless and incompetent
fucking twats of the first order that's why.

 

Any faster and they set the jewellery swinging uncontrollably and little
Tarquin in the back can't concentrate on his share prices on the laptop.

 

Thats just like saying 'pointless goldwing' or other big bikes. Read up
on 4x4's before you berate them, although I do see your point regarding
pointless ones. I use mine for what it was made for.

--
'Chill Winston.......'

Nige

Subaru WRX (54)
Land Rover Discovery II (2001)
BMW GS1200 (2007)
Honda CBR900RR Fireblade (1997)

 

...or slowly going round large puddle in the road!

I am sooo tempted to buy a **** off great 4x4 simply as a protest
against the ridiculous number of speed control lumps and bumps being
put all over the place on roads where the shit parking ensured that no
one could negotiate the street at more than 10mph stop start in the
first place.

And another thing

I took my daughter to a Laser Quest party this afternoon. A half hour
drive through the twisties of west Essex. It would've been half an
hour if it wasn't for the number of bimbling cunts doing 20mph through
the villages and 40mph along the NSL sections. I told Emily that from
now on she goes on the bike or she doesn't go at all.

 

Nige wrote

Quite. My SIII Station Wagon was a very useful vehicle.

 

Perhaps you've missed the whole point. It's called
"conspicuous consumption", a mark of high social status.

In Japan, the lowly working class uses ceramic tiles
on their roofs, which last 100 years.

The upper class uses wooden shingles, which last 10 years.

The Emperor's roof, however is made of cedar *bark*.
He's lucky if it lasts 2 years, but no one else
is allowed to go around stripping cedar bark off trees.

Sean_Q_

 

I have had loads of the buggers, they are fun beyond fun. No-one makes
anything like it, even Land Rover.

I had a S3 & the light kept going off whilst driving, you had to belt
the dash & they would come back on.....


--
'Chill Winston.......'

Nige

Subaru WRX (54)
Land Rover Discovery II (2001)
BMW GS1200 (2007)
Honda CBR900RR Fireblade (1997)

 

Good man.

--
'Chill Winston.......'

Nige

Subaru WRX (54)
Land Rover Discovery II (2001)
BMW GS1200 (2007)
Honda CBR900RR Fireblade (1997)

 

Nige wrote

I remember luxuriating in the blasts of hot air produced by the cutting-
edge heating system.

 

In

Not much.

Although if its live axle like my ol' Rangie then going over 'em at speed
isn't exactly comfy. I don't slow down to 2 mph though, might slow down to
20 for the extra big speedbumps just so I've got an excuse to give it some
beans to the next one..


--
Pete M - Using the Scouse Side of the Force -
Golf GTi Mk2 2.0 8v
Wood and Pickett Range Rover V8 Turbo
Golf GTi Mk1 (For Sale)
OMF#9

Currently listening to The White Stripes

 

Who needs aircon when you can wave through the gap twixt side window and
windscreen .. when the window is shut ..

... Or the fun that ensues upon turning up to a petrol station being overrun
by 'environmentalists' who stop you for using a 4x4 in an urban environment
... so you get out and throw [1] some of your haybales at them .. They
were videoing the 'action' but I haven't seen it on t'web anywhere yet.

[1] Admittedly small horse feed-net sized bundles, rather than full-size
bales.

 

Now that's the sort of answer that I like. UKRM at it's best

 

It's still shite now Roger!

--
'Chill Winston.......'

Nige

Subaru WRX (54)
Land Rover Discovery II (2001)
BMW GS1200 (2007)
Honda CBR900RR Fireblade (1997)

 

Have you ever tried having a road hump at speeds much above that? Well you
should, coz then you'd know.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Nige wrote

It lends an air of authenticity to the Land Rover experience, I think,
so that they can pretend they're really roughing it on the school run.

 

School runs?

 

People do tend to have this idea that 4x4s should be able to take
speed bumps at sixty. TBH I used to, until I owned one. Err, a 4x4
that is, not a speed bump.

 

Well, not sixty maybe, but no need to slow to 2 .. though I guess that's
possibly an exagerration. I barely slow at all in 30 limits for them ..
unless they're the full road width kind, and then only slow to about 20 ish.

 

Do you think that 4x4's are supposed to hit solid objects at high
speeds?