Only a Land Rover nut would understand!

[Mudnut]

I am faced with a delema. I have just spent some serious money on my wifes new car. A BMW X5 diesel. Beautiful car, and a pleasure to drive. Now the delema... I still would rather drive my TD5 Defender. There is just something about that diesel rattle on acceleration (The X5 sounds like a V8). I feel part of the car, and the environment. The poor air conditioning, noise, and wind drifting through, the dust, and dog hair floating about, and even the seating position, have burned something into my brain. Do I need help?:eek:

A Defender slave.

[hiline]

nah mate your fine :D :D :D

the wife has the problem BMW X5 ;)

[incisor]

your a sick puppy mate...

and so am i ....

[Captain_Rightfoot]

No you're perfectly fine. It's important though to remove the outside threat if you're to become completely health again.

PM me with your details and I'll pop around and take the X5 away for you so you don't have any more repressed anxiety. :)

Interestingly, the first time we were at Fraser a X5 was the only "soft roader" I saw up there :)

[Greylandy]

Mudnut ... just means you are a true landy nutbag. I often think my relationship with the defender is very close to unhealthy ...

Look at it this way .. now you've got one of the best road/town cars .. and definitely the best bush/offroad car! You are now complete my son .. ;)

[x-box]

Exactly what Greylandy said - you're perfectly normal












for a DEFENDER driver :D

[hiline]

we Defender drivers are a breed of our own :D :D

[Jamo]

There's something about Land Rovers that gives you a good feeling when you drive them!

The X5 is just cold German efficiency.

[Quiggers]

That's fair enough - BMWs are for girls - Land Rovers are for men.

SWMBO doesn't like the Disco - but would like a BMW girl car.

She has a friend who bought a little 316 ten years ago - which is tiny - and kid hopeless, but they like 'em for some unknown reason...... It must be the badge.....

GQ

[haggisbasher]

hehehe...must be something that gets in the blood mate. The problem with other cars/fourbies is they are a boring drive and (to my mind) this is what makes a Landy, and particularly the Defender, an "attractive" car.

Just something about them........:)

And...the kids love 'em.


The only car to come near driving my old s2a and now defender was...wait for it......... an Austin Healey 3000......it was s oft top and belting around the country raods in it wit the top down was great...albeit for only 30 mins.

[Quiggers]

Hey Haggis you're right there.

My daughter doesn't like it much, but all her mates think its very cool!
(It's the bare metal bonnet that annoys her).

My boys love it - as in where it goes!

Did Levuka quite a while back and they all thought that was a hoot! (And not BMW in sight).

I think they're still quite amazed we can so easily drive on our very long south beach.:D

GQ

[haggisbasher]

hehehehe...gotta try to get a second one for the family now...maybe a 2a like laurence...soft top would be great....

heeeerrrrrreeeees hoping!

[DeeJay]

I understand Mudnut, I actually encourage $wd - that was a typo, I meant 4wd, but its so appropriate, so I think I'll leave it there.:D ownership, especially other breeds, so I can smirk more often when they roar past trying to prove something.
Never do it in the bush tho...
Actually I'm doubly lucky as SWMBO loves the Disco and does not want to part with it.......

[JamesH]

Children and dogs love Land Rovers because it is a natural thing to like them. We are actually taught through life to like things more complicated and comfortable and this takes us away from our natural state. Children are wiser than adults in this regard. They see instinctively the superiority of the Land Rover in its primitive purity.

It is a great misunderstanding that modern education and leaps in science and technology makes us smarter. It in fact just gives a more intense/powerful type of stupidity.

[George130]

Defenders get under the skin. They are just a special vehicle.

[mcrover]

The only car to come near driving my old s2a and now defender was...wait for it......... an Austin Healey 3000......it was s oft top and belting around the country raods in it wit the top down was great...albeit for only 30 mins.

Is that because it kept breaking down?????;)

Buy the way it is a well known fact that as soon as you bleed from trying to sqeeze your hand down the front of a landrover engine your then part of the car so unless you have never turned a spanner on your landy then your fine.

[Ace]

To quote Jims dad from American Pie- "Its a perfectly normal natural thing" nothing wrong with you mate, its the people who prefer the BMW's that have the problem, no offence to you wife. :D

[dobbo]

To quote Jims dad from American Pie- "Its a perfectly normal natural thing" nothing wrong with you mate, its the people who prefer the BMW's that have the problem, no offence to you wife. :D


well you aint got a beamer whats your excuse for pullin it?

[DiscoDave]

I feel part of the car, and the environment. The poor air conditioning, noise, and wind drifting through, the dust, and dog hair floating about, and even the seating position, have burned something into my brain. Do I need help?:eek:

A Defender slave.

:D Yes you do. Just attend one of the monthly meetings in "your capital city" and at an appropriate moment stand up and say "My name is xyz and I own a Land Rover Defender" (cry at this point). You'll soon be among friends. :)

[haggisbasher]

The only car to come near driving my old s2a and now defender was...wait for it......... an Austin Healey 3000......it was s oft top and belting around the country raods in it wit the top down was great...albeit for only 30 mins.

Is that because it kept breaking down?????;)

Buy the way it is a well known fact that as soon as you bleed from trying to sqeeze your hand down the front of a landrover engine your then part of the car so unless you have never turned a spanner on your landy then your fine.


Nah..it was in the garage i was working at and needed a test drive!.... :o