TimeOut - I'm happy I could make your day G

I'm happy I could make your day G

I have not done a land rover day yet although I think it would be a ton of fun. Unfortunately over hear in the states most Range Rovers seem to be driven by women that just think they look cool, which is the case for my lady. She has absolutely no intentions of ever going off road, she just wants to look like a bad ass soccer mom. I tried so hard to first talk her into a 612, than a panamera or cayene and all she wanted was a RRS. It has started to grow on me but I think I would like it a lot more if i did some serious off roading in it. I'm not sure I can agree about the track day but I would have to try both before having a valid opinion, but I'm a track day nut. Mostly on motorcycles but I love tracking cars as well.

Luca you are right about the tires, with the proper tires and a better driver I think she would have been fine. I have no issues chalking this one up to driver error.

this is the result of a 31 yr old and 3 yr old making joint decisions

By: tourbillon001 : February 24th, 2011-10:32

First of all please feel free to laugh as this was just pure stupidity on my part. I was taking my son to a birthday party but we were a bit early, so with idle time I decided this ditch would be a fun way to test out the new Range Rover. Of course I aske...

Funny!

By: AuHavrePro : February 24th, 2011-11:05

Well, we all learn something new every day . Hope you find a better place next time to have fun in the RR!

re: making joint decisions

By: DRMW : February 24th, 2011-11:22

Great cooperation! :)

By: blomman Mr Blue : February 24th, 2011-11:59

Father and son quality time! Guess mother was mildly impressed...? Thank you for sharing this fun story with us! Best Blomman

it was great father son bonding

By: tourbillon001 : February 24th, 2011-14:02

and the misses was not very impressed, but not all that upset either. Her first question was did you get connor to the birthday party on time, which I did. Then she asked if the bill was less than 200, which it was, and the was the end of it. I'm glad you...

This sounds like a slightly familiar incident which leads me to believe...

By: elanoftroy : February 24th, 2011-12:59

Men must certainly be from Mars!!!! Helen

Haha ..

By: bimbeano : February 24th, 2011-13:26

i remember going thru the worst offroads with my lowered old VW Jetta 2 (but only 900 kg) and an Audi A4 Quattro and never get struck ... untill i took my cousins Suzuki Samurai-Jeep and offcourse having to call the local farmer ... Way to go buddy .. we ...

:)

By: VMM : February 24th, 2011-14:37

Glad to see that was nothing. Cheers! Vte

Now the question is, next time you get another SUV

By: AnthonyTsai : February 24th, 2011-15:08

will you test it out again in this same ditch ? Cheers, Anthony

well the good thing is under normal

By: tourbillon001 : February 24th, 2011-17:52

circumstances I don't drive an SUV, and won't be venturing into any more ditches LOL. I think if Jen would have let me buy the porsche I wanted to get her it would have gotten right through. She says it was not the SUV but driver error. She is most likely...

As long as...

By: dxboon : February 24th, 2011-22:35

...nobody got hurt, and you can laugh about it now, I'm all for these (mis)adventures! Daos

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

By: G99 : February 25th, 2011-02:02

however i'm very surprised it got stuck what with all the gizmo's it has on it. i've driven a MK1 discovery without any gizmo's across a wet ploughed field, but for that you need a lot of speed and stupidity have you done a day with the landrover experien...

Is that the drive to your house G....

By: Andy : February 26th, 2011-04:03

if ti is I can see why ou have a 4x4..!! I'll do an off road day with you mate.. Yours, Andy....

i havent had it for...

By: G99 : February 26th, 2011-04:09

i havent had it for 18 months Andy so you missed out. i swapped it out for my merc and then experienced 3 awful bouts of snow. bloody typical i do have plans to get another 4x4 when i need to change the merc, but that could be a while yet and i'll have mo...

Cool post! Do not feel guilty. The fault lies on the tires. Nowadays SUVs...

By: luc00 : February 26th, 2011-06:48

Get equipped with tires that have to be silent, create no vibrations on the steering and not melt at 240 kms/h with more than 2,5 tons of load Those polivalent tires are like the swiss knife , they can do it all but nothing right. Get decent off road tire...

I'm happy I could make your day G

By: tourbillon001 : February 26th, 2011-09:16

i understand what you mean...

By: G99 : February 26th, 2011-10:51

i understand what you mean about the bad ass soccer mom although over here its more the 'surrey mum' which refers to women from the home counties around London. you should really try an off road day, i think you'll be surprised how fun it is, addictive fu...