At the risk of starting off the 4x4 debate once again, and believe me that is not my aim, I have just been reminded how silly the comments made recently are.
If my memory serves comments like " terribly uncomfortable, unsafe due to high centre of gravity, wont go round bends, sparse and plastic, unrefined" and I am sure many more were made by certain individuals. Also the other piece of advise given which sticks in my mind was " why lumber yourself with a 4x4 when you only tow your van for 3 weeks per year".
Well my car (Amazon) second one I have had was in for its first service today so I had to borrow my Sales Managers car, a quite respectable Jaguar family saloon. I cannot tell you how horrible it felt to drive compared with my 4 X4 and believe me I would not go back to a saloon car ever again by choice. The other comment recently concerned the cost of running 4x4's, service costs in particular were mentioned, well I have got to say in the 6 years and 200,000 miles I had my first one the only non service parts fitted to it was 1 set of front discs, it only ever had one replacement set of tyres.
Ok so I only get 25 mpg. Small price to pay IMHO.
If my memory serves comments like " terribly uncomfortable, unsafe due to high centre of gravity, wont go round bends, sparse and plastic, unrefined" and I am sure many more were made by certain individuals. Also the other piece of advise given which sticks in my mind was " why lumber yourself with a 4x4 when you only tow your van for 3 weeks per year".
Well my car (Amazon) second one I have had was in for its first service today so I had to borrow my Sales Managers car, a quite respectable Jaguar family saloon. I cannot tell you how horrible it felt to drive compared with my 4 X4 and believe me I would not go back to a saloon car ever again by choice. The other comment recently concerned the cost of running 4x4's, service costs in particular were mentioned, well I have got to say in the 6 years and 200,000 miles I had my first one the only non service parts fitted to it was 1 set of front discs, it only ever had one replacement set of tyres.
Ok so I only get 25 mpg. Small price to pay IMHO.
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