Thread: Where the LR's & RR's are in Australia (Stats)

Read an article in the SMH today about where the Volvo's are, and they have a interesting interactive statistics graphing tool, so I put in "Land Rover", and "Range Rover" to see where they are most popular. Here are the results:

Land Rovers
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Range Rovers
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Hope this interests someone.

I drove out to the Dowerin Field Day this year which is about 3 hours drive from Perth to the NE in the heart of the wheat belt. A huge annual country folk / farmer field day. It was an amazing collection of farm equipment / cars / motorbikes / outdoor gear complete with dedicated tent for the private school boarding houses.

It was what I imagine the Perth Royal Show was before side show alley & lolly shops and fully tattooed husband and wife couples invaded it.

Anyhow, I parked in the public car park which consisted of two enormous fields they used for the event. Cars were parked as a front to back pair and I am guessing the fields held about 10 rows by 500m. By the time I pulled in I was about three-quarters into the second field.

I had to walk back through the car parking area to get to the entrance. There was every form of near new farm owner and farm worker car encompassing large 4WD and ute most with fully bombed accessories.

On the way in I found one RR amongst the vehicles and on the way back I saw a Disco.

In speaking with farmer friends the lack of country servicing is off-putting as in any irregular trip to the big smoke the last thing they want to do is spend the day at the LR Dealer.

Interestingly, there was a LR stand at the show showcasing the new Hybrid FFRR $250k+++ machine which I thought was optimistic.

My recent Nullarbor trip showed that once out of the CBD / Private School Zone the numbers drop to almost zero excepting the good folk on this site who have the passion for the brand & technology and enjoy the open & off-road capabilities of the car.

I did note the convention on waving to LR owners (everyone gets a finger lift on the open road) and the ones I did see near Adelaide and Melbourne gave hearty waves which were responded to with enthusiasm. I did note after days of not seeing another Disco that a 79 series Toyo can easily be mistaken for one from a distance with their quite square front. A few must have gotten a surprise when they caught me nearly leaning out the window to wave in excitement only to realise it was a false-alarm.