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

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

6 of the top Land Rover list are WA postcodes.
....Albany remained,as it was the biggest selling "country" dealership.

On our recent trip we booked our Discovery at that Albany dealership to have the Auto wipers checked out (our wipers don't auto wipe at all) and was surprised that they didn't have the part and would have to wait 6 days to get it shipped from the east. So biggest selling dealership, but not big in holding parts.
Peter

Hawksburn and South Yarra are virtually the same, costly, suburbs. So if they were combined, then they'd be number one.

As far as the large sales of Land Rovers for Abbotsford - that is interesting indeed. It runs close to the Yarra, and Richmond is close. That is Adam Bandt's seat - he's the only Green to have a seat in the House of Representatives. So clearly, Land Rover drivers are both Gay and Greens!


My street has 50 houses in it. There a four Discovery 4s in the street. The parallel street has at least two D4s in it too.

There are a couple of side streets off my street, with some Discos too, and an older Range Rover Sport, but I don't know the numbers.

From the 50 houses in my street, there are a couple of Lexus RXs, a 2 or 3 year old 200 series Landcruiser VX (he replaced his 2000 Prado with it), a Mercedes large SUV about 18 months old, a new 911, a recent Ferrari too and also a hot and very loud AMG Mercedes sedan.

Its Brighton ... I am not surprised they are popular. They appear to be much more more popular than Toyota Prado/200 series around here IMO.

Sadly I think men driving D4 Discos are rare around there ... its clearly a girlie vehicle.

Sadly I think men driving Discos are rare around there ... its clearly a girlie vehicle.

That's the way it is here also. Straightened hair, big sunglasses, DISCOVERY on the bonnet. Kids in uniforms in the back.

I attribute it to the decision to go to painted wheel arches. Was marketing genius for sales as wifey could be convinced it was now almost a RRS.

The black wheel arches looked purposeful and manly. I hope the D5 goes someway back and leaves RR & RRS to their new domain of 20"+ wheeled Cayman wannabees.

Originally Posted by LRD414

Could the data be picking up addresses where the vehicle registration is still with the dealer? That would put a high concentration of vehicles in the post codes where dealers are located.

Scott

That doesn't work for Sydney, none of the suburbs with RR have dealers.

Land Rover sells cars at very few places. Bendigo, where I live, is not one of them. The day in Melbourne for service, starting early or staying overnight, is a bind so there aren't many Discos in this area. More outlets, more sales!
When my MY07 Disco 3, 225km, bought when I lived in Melbourne, retires I would be silly to buy another one although there is nothing else that would bring me such happiness.

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

That's the way it is here also. Straightened hair, big sunglasses, DISCOVERY on the bonnet. Kids in uniforms in the back.

I attribute it to the decision to go to painted wheel arches. Was marketing genius for sales as wifey could be convinced it was now almost a RRS.

The black wheel arches looked purposeful and manly. I hope the D5 goes someway back and leaves RR & RRS to their new domain of 20"+ wheeled Cayman wannabees.

I still have my 1997 Prado, I thought I might get cheap registration, but not for years ... I bought it new too. And the plastic guards are a pain. If they get hit, their plastic connectors break, and you need to pay $500 to get a new one and get it fitted. Someone hit one of mine, and I had to screw the guard in. And they don't write off Prados so much, so spares are not so common and not so cheap.

I hate the guards!!!

Still a can of Plasti-Dip is all it takes to colour the guards ... and you can peel it off later on. I need to spray underneath in some areas to protect against stone chips. I should turn my white D4 into a black kit one; I have the darkish GOE wheels, so I could spray the air intakes, the arches, the mirrors and pretend I paid $7000 for the black kit, plus the guards must have been a special from LR!!!

There's quite a few D4's in Kalgoorlie these days, and plenty of Defenders.

Most of the D4's though are in the same "duty" that you would see them in around Nedlands / Claremont area.

There is one often seen white D4 that is the station owner's / manager's vehicle from a sheep station not too far out of town. Very easy to spot, usually plenty of mud on it and has the name of the station on a sign in the back window - often pulling a large caged trailer with farm equipment / hay bales / animals etc on board.

He certainly travels at a pretty good rate of knots in it too - passed me late one night coming back up from Perth - I was doing about 120 and he left me for dead.

He is one of the very few LR Owners around Kalgoorlie who always waves to you though.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

That doesn't work for Sydney, none of the suburbs with RR have dealers.

Good point. New theory ... the top postcodes for Qld are all regional cities (Toowoomba/Cairns/Mackay/Bundaberg). Obviously there is more LRs in Brisbane but it's broken into lots of postcodes. The top Brisbane-based postcode is Brookfield, which is the well-off-soccer-mum-with-horsefloat heartland**.

Cheers
Scott
(**note: wild generalisation alert)