Classic Rangie: Is it the ideal poor man's car?

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Originally Posted by Dougal

I too find it amazing that they made a V6 which was less efficient than the V8's.
Someone pulled out the fuel economy figures across a year of commodores. The most fuel efficient was the V8 manual. The worst the V6 auto.

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Yet they sell more because you save a couple of hundred bucks a year on insurance and rego..nice one

Camo

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Originally Posted by Dougal

A company I worked for ran two of those as company cars (VY I think). They used a horrendous amount of fuel. Like 15 litres per 100km average. I was thinking at the time that a carefully driven rangie would be doing much the same.

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I hired a few and got 30 mpg (l/100km is meaningless to me) consistently. So, needing a cheap beater, I bought one at auction that had 280,000 k's on it and it did the same. Everyone I know who had one praises the fuel economy.

I had an early '80's RR for a while and it used fuel like it owned an oil well, never better than 15 mpg, usually around 12-13 if the a/c was in use. I shudder to think what it would have used towing two tons.

My 406 coupé is very cheap on the petrol use but I just come from the mechanic and it will cost me $7000.00 supply and fit an overhauled auto gearbox :(
I guess that my fuel savings gone trough the drain.
I am better off than the poor bugger with an Audi which just come out of warranty, the gearbox cost $28000 :eek:
You can buy several old RR for that money plus a few litres of fuel :D

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Originally Posted by Chucaro

My 406 coupé is very cheap on the petrol use but I just come from the mechanic and it will cost me $7000.00 supply and fit an overhauled auto gearbox :(
I guess that my fuel savings gone trough the drain.
I am better off than the poor bugger with an Audi which just come out of warranty, the gearbox cost $28000 :eek:
You can buy several old RR for that money plus a few litres of fuel :D

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And all these new car salesmen can't understand why I want a manual car and not one of their exploding automated manuals.

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Originally Posted by Madkelpie

My Rangie classic costs less per year to run than the wifes Subaru. The secret is to have a wreck or two in the back yard :wasntme:

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Me too, although I have about 5 of them :eek: Nice to go and cherry pick the bits you need for your going Rangie (I also sell parts as a sideline).

That's why I bought my 85 Rangie, no EFI, no electric windows, easy to work on etc.. and it was cheap (that's the best part). Still a work in progress but getting close to rego.

Discos are okay, still not the same as some have commented.

Trav

double posted :(

He did....

BWAA-HAHAHAhahahahah.....:twisted:

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Originally Posted by Camo

Makes sense. I know they are shocking on fuel towing.. be the same on hills. I still find it crazy a 5.7 V8 is more economical than a V6.. all comes down to gearing and load on the motor.

I reckon a Gen3 in a RRC would achieve about 12l per 100k's.. would be nice:cool:

Camo

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Don't forget that Overfinch make/made the rangies with the chev 5.7 in them

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Originally Posted by Galoop

Don't forget that Overfinch make/made the rangies with the chev 5.7 in them

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Drove one of them once
Will never forget it. Totally out gunned a Toyota supra. He just disappear in the back window as I accepted up to 140mph the handling was also unreal

I walked into the land rover garage who used to sponser me , that asked if I could drive it around for about an hour as it needed a clean out ( Italian service as we called it ) and the battery charging. That hour went quick.

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Originally Posted by Reads90

Drove one of them once
Will never forget it. Totally out gunned a Toyota supra. He just disappear in the back window as I accepted up to 140mph the handling was also unreal

I walked into the land rover garage who used to sponser me , that asked if I could drive it around for about an hour as it needed a clean out ( Italian service as we called it ) and the battery charging. That hour went quick.

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Nice! Gen3 going in my Classic for sure... one day:cool: