Month: December 2023

Over the years my daily-driver car choices have been constrained by: efficiency for commuting and business miles, and family practicality. Since Covid my commuting and business mileage is practically zero so I no longer need a highly efficient motorway machine that can reliably consume 15k miles a year with just a cheap service. Also, my girls now have cars of their own so Dad’s taxi and the summer holiday transport is no longer a consideration. So if I am not constrained what would I like to drive? Well let’s start with a Range Rover Vogue (L322). I’ve always wanted one and much prefer the L322 styling above the “brand” styling of the L405. I’m sure it will be troublesome but I need to experience one.

I walked into this experience with my eyes open, but certainly wasn’t expecting this level of faults or the rectification to be so costly. I had the optimistic hope that a Range Rover would behave like any other modern car i.e made in the 10 to 15 years. How wrong I was. Maybe it was just this car, but I found out the hard way that running a Range Rover after it’s warranty has ended is not for the faint hearted unless you have the skills and tools to fix them.

It has now been sold back to the dealer I bought it from and been replaced by a daily driver that I can depend on – a VW Toureg.