mse wrote:

we dont want them to go out of business and/or move out of he UK fully and loose all the UK manufacturing etc etc - there are enough of everything else trying to destroy it

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Been stalking on the D5 forum and it seems there are still niggly issues with the D5s. I feel really bad for the owners tbh. When they have stuck up for the brand, overlooked the nappy-looking concussion-making rear end and forked out a small fortune on something that really doesn't warrant the price tag, they are still dealing with a pee-poor customer service and lack of answers/help/solutions. They are on a contact loop back to the service department.

professorpool wrote:

mse wrote:

we dont want them to go out of business and/or move out of he UK fully and loose all the UK manufacturing etc etc - there are enough of everything else trying to destroy it

It was a joke. They have already been owned by all three

Russell wrote:

Yes there are still issues but look back at when the D3 was first launched and the issues associated with that, then when the first D4's came out and the issues with them

As for other makes, look at BMW and the issues with engines there and they are far less forgiving or supportive to their customers

As for Audi, friend has a Q7 that was coming to end of warranty and required a few bits doing Audi refused all of them under warranty and put it down to wear and tear things that LR have covered under warranty for customers

Sp to summarise, yes LR are not great with some things and there are niggles with new models, but so there are with a lot of other makes who don't seem to be as customer focused as LR

Agreed. On the rare occasions that I’ve had a problem LR have really gone the extra mile (with the exception of the D4 surround camera issue, but at least I knew what to expect with the cameras in my last D4!)

These people deserve credit where credit is due

Moo wrote:

As an alternative to a D5 the Rexton does look attractive on paper.

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There's no denying that, on the road, the Ssangyong feels a little archaic. The last equivalent body-on-frame car we tested was a decade-old Jeep Grand Cherokee, and the Rexton barely feels a generation removed from it. The uncanny body shimmy, like a jelly fish haphazardly tacked to an oak tabletop, is unmistakable on any surface, at any speed.

The ride isn’t ruinously bad – given time, you adapt (regress?) into the Rexton’s gambol, and merrily loll about with it – but anyone switching from a monocoque-bodied SUV will wonder at the untidiness of it all.

The steering follows suit; over assisted into weightlessness, it needs be cranked almost to a half-turn before it will finally oblige. A quicker setup or better directness would hardly be appropriate given the Rexton’s structural reluctance to swiftly change direction, but the logic of it doesn’t prevent every junction becoming a necessary blur of palmed on and palmed off steering wheel input.

It’s probably for the best then that you never approach one carrying too much speed. The 2.2 diesel isn’t the cheapest to run, with the manual returning an official 36.2mpg, which is 2.0mpg better than the auto.

Around you the interior is large and chunky and also stranded in the plastic and appearance of yesteryear. It’s reminiscent of the kind of low-rent Korean effort that Kia and Hyundai used to crank out before they invested their way to acclaim. Seats six and seven are clumsily packaged beneath a raised boot floor too, but in comfort and capacity, they are strictly for temporary accommodation.

Red Merle wrote:

Would I buy a Rexton to save a shed load of cash and get “something similar”? Absolutely not, but a lot would / will / have already done so...

Well, if you consider it from an investment point of view - suppose you get something for half the original budgeted cost AND that something is roughly equivalent to the thing that was originally intended to be purchased at the original price AND both options do solve your (business) problem... why wouldn’t you make the choice which increases your return on capital employed?

The real end customer (= horses) most likely don’t care if the vehicle is pulling their trailers from Solihull, Stuttgart or Seoul