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NoDo$h

Member Since: 02 May 2006
Location: Finding new and exciting ways to milk badgers.
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28 April Black (HSE?) with tints - A30 Honiton to Exeter

Very 8)

I'm afraid I belted past you in my 156 Sportwagon at a less than sedate pace, but admired your D3 for long enough to spot the sticker on the back advertising this site

Still trying to decide between a D3 and a Touareg.......

2nd May 2006 8:44 pm

Dom Harvey
Lord of the Four Fingers

Member Since: 15 Apr 2005
Location: Dorset
Posts: 7460

No contest, if you want to come and look at mine feel free, I live in the same county

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2nd May 2006 9:18 pm

NoDo$h

Member Since: 02 May 2006
Location: Finding new and exciting ways to milk badgers.
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Dom Harvey wrote:
No contest, if you want to come and look at mine feel free, I live in the same county

I may just take you up on that! Whereabouts are you? I'm Wool/Bovington way.

There's no contest as a true off-road beasty (D3 every time), but my needs are for an exec type car that can handle farm tracks, trips to the alps and lengthy cross-country jaunts (Exeter, St Albans, Nottingham) with comfort. My wife has an L200 for the roughty-toughty stuff (daily use and abuse in the fields on the estate we live on) and as long as whatever I buy can negotiate the mile of unmade track from my place to the road in all weathers I'll be happy.

It seems at any given price, the Touareg dips out on air suspension & terrain response but gains in cabin lovliness and toys. It will be a few months before I splash the cash (sale of old house moving very slowly) so I've plenty of time to test drive both.......

3rd May 2006 10:21 am

Dom Harvey
Lord of the Four Fingers

Member Since: 15 Apr 2005
Location: Dorset
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NoDo$h wrote:
to the road in all weathers I'll be happy.

It seems at any given price, the Touareg dips out on air suspension & terrain response but gains in cabin lovliness and toys. It will be a few months before I splash the cash (sale of old house moving very slowly) so I've plenty of time to test drive both.......

have you driven the D3 yet

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3rd May 2006 1:29 pm

NoDo$h

Member Since: 02 May 2006
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Not yet. Extensive drooling over brochures and a few minutes sat in and looking around the Treg and the D3 in dealer showrooms has been the limit of my enquiries so far. I just find the cabin of the Treg to be more, well, plush than the (relatively) utilitarian offering of the D3. Not that the D3 interior is poor by any stretch of the imagination, just the Treg interior seems more prestigious. IMHO of course.

I'm not keen to test-drive either until I'm in a position to slap a large cheque on the salesman's desk. Used to sell cars for a living and nothing wound up the salesman more than a protracted "gestation" from test-drive to order. If it drags out too much, you lose the interest of the salesman and their desire for your money wanes. If you want to do a keen deal, be prepared to test-drive and order on the same day, particularly if you tell the salesman you will be back-to-back with a competitor's car!

3rd May 2006 1:59 pm

Very Annoyed

Member Since: 19 Nov 2005
Location: Up there, past the strange people and the sheep.
Posts: 3698

There's always the Range Rover Sport! Ok I'm off now

Loving the power of the TDV8!

3rd May 2006 2:13 pm

Mossy

Member Since: 01 Jul 2005
Location: Hollyoaks, UK
Posts: 2687

2006 Discovery 3 4.4 V8 HSE Auto Zambezi Silver

Very annoyed wrote:
Ok I'm off now

Why? Have you spotted some boobies?

D3 HSE V8...

3rd May 2006 2:34 pm

Dom Harvey
Lord of the Four Fingers

Member Since: 15 Apr 2005
Location: Dorset
Posts: 7460

More likely 'a chequed shirt' sale

2004 Discovery 3 - gone
2006 Discovery 3 - gone
2008 Discovery 3 GS - gone
2011 Freelander LE Special Edition - gone
2007 Discovery 3 XS - gone
2012 Discovery 4 GS - gone
2019 RangeRover Evoque 2.00 D150 R-Dynamic

3rd May 2006 3:00 pm

Dom Harvey
Lord of the Four Fingers

Member Since: 15 Apr 2005
Location: Dorset
Posts: 7460

NoDo$h wrote:
just the Treg interior seems more prestigious. IMHO of course.

...........wait til you drive one

, contact Ben Darch at Westover Landrover, he did me a great deal, mention this site too

. 2004 Discovery 3 - gone
2006 Discovery 3 - gone
2008 Discovery 3 GS - gone
2011 Freelander LE Special Edition - gone
2007 Discovery 3 XS - gone
2012 Discovery 4 GS - gone
2019 RangeRover Evoque 2.00 D150 R-Dynamic

3rd May 2006 3:03 pm

NoDo$h

Member Since: 02 May 2006
Location: Finding new and exciting ways to milk badgers.
Posts: 19689

Will do Dom, thanks.

As for the RRS suggested further up the page (tic, I know), I don't play football, run a nightclub or sell illicit substances for a living, so I don't think I'm allowed to buy one. Looking in the driveways around Sandbanks I can only assume that Westover's used car lot is littered with discarded Cayennes!

3rd May 2006 4:02 pm