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

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.

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
You can buy several old RR for that money plus a few litres of fuel

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
You can buy several old RR for that money plus a few litres of fuel

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

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

Me too, although I have about 5 of them 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.....

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

Camo

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

Originally Posted by Galoop

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

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.