Comments on: Land Rover confirms grant for LRX production

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:58:49 +0000

Devil, I’m not defending British cars in general, just Land Rovers. And actually, no, there isn’t any bias just because I’m from Britain.
I have a Range Rover because there is no alternative. If you want something that’s good off road, you can get a Land Cruiser or maybe a Patrol or something. If you want an SUV that’s good on road, you can get an X5 and if you want a really comfortable car to do long or short trips in you could maybe get a Jaguar XJ or A Mercedes S Class. But only with the Range Rover do you get them all in one car and I would gladly trade perfect reliability (even though that is what I’ve had so far) for a car so competent any day. It’s nothing to do with being British.
And how many Land Rovers are you talking about here? You say 100% had problems, how many is 100%? Have you had personal experience?
I’m not saying that all Land Rovers are reliable, I’m saying that the ones I’ve had experience with were and are and as my experience has been good, I would recommend them just as you wouldn’t from your experience (even though it doesn’t sound like you’ve actually had one). And they are well built and somehow I doubt that when this new one comes out, it will have reliability problems. This is a car that will be catering to markets that Land Rover have never had before. New customers and more importantly, new engines. I think it’ll be just fine.

By: Devil666

Devil666 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:54:22 +0000

Oh you grew up in Britan!

Well no bias or anything….

While we are on the subject, Aston also have terrible reliability and mechanical problems. If you read the latest Top Gear mag you will read the article where Ulrich Bez has committed to improving these aspects, a general admission of issues.

By: Devil666

Devil666 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:47:20 +0000

Alex, you may have seen 39 or 51 or 103 without issue, but 100% of the Land Rovers/Range Rovers i’ve seen have had massive issues, all of them being premium models. That is not a good ratio.

Unfortunately you not seeing faulty models is doesn’t prove that they don’t exist. It’s a false positive on your part. But rest assured, you have been lead astray. JD power surveys rate them as very, very close to the bottom.

Look it up: http://www.jdpower.com/autos/ratings/quality-ratings-by-brand

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:27:07 +0000

Bob, I know a hell of a lot of people. I’m certainly not a sales rep. I grew up in the British countryside, basically everybody I knew had a Land Rover if not a whole fleet, my parents certainly did. You just get used to having them around so you keep buying them. I know that up until a few years ago they were terrible as far as reliability goes but not these days.

Bell End, what experience have you actually had with the brand?

By: G MAN

G MAN — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:45:29 +0000

If that front end was put on a Range Rover that would be bloody awesome!!

By: rich boy

rich boy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:52:31 +0000

I heard it’s going to be badged as a range rover.

By: bell end

bell end — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:39:34 +0000

This looks cool but agree with the comment that land rovers are generally bags of sh*t reliability wise, not worth the headache

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:10:47 +0000

Alex, to know 39 people with this brand of car (which on a world wide scale is not particularly large) would suggest that either you know a hell of a lot of people or you are a sales rep for Land Rover, so which is it?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:47:16 +0000

Well I don’t know how he came across a 4.2 TDV8, seeing as they don’t make one but he must just be unlucky. Or maybe I’m just lucky. When I count the amount of Land Rovers built from 2003 onwards that either I or people I know own, the number is 39, if I’m not forgetting any. I know that NONE of them have had any problems. That is seven Freelander 2s, six Discovery 3s, three Range Rover Vogues, eight Defenders and fifteen Range Rover Sports with a range of engines (I’ll go into more detail if you like) and as written, I know that there have been no problems experienced.

By: Cupid Stunt

Cupid Stunt — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:44:57 +0000

Not too sure about the reliability comments Alex – Having just seen my bosses LR Sport 4.2TDV8 yesterday. It has spent more time in LR’s grages being fixed for silly irritating faults than he had chnce to drive it. After only 3 months he’s regretting the choice and possibly swapping it sooner than he anticipated. Good old British Build Quality