Chaps,

What is the latest advice on buying FFRRs with an "OY" registration - do I need to give a big miss?

Also, were all LRE cars white or could some have been a different colour?

Seen one that I like that's not white but on "OY". Trying to get more info on previous owners. MY11 Vogue 4.4 TDV8 - "African Queen"

I think all OV & OY are factory registered.

Only the tiniest fraction go to LR Experience & they are white.

The car could have been used by royalty, a celebrity, the police, a JLR employee as their own car, a pool car, R&D etc etc Anyone that JLR would 'loan' a car to is potentially in scope.....

My previous black 2011 VSE was an OY registered car used by royal protection......allegedly it was used in a big wedding.

The garage refused to give me a discount, but the car was perfect, so I bought it anyway.

There was some evidence of the wiring having been tapped into, for extra lights or radio's, but otherwise all was good.

Mike

Alistair wrote:

The car could have been used by royalty, a celebrity, the police, a JLR employee as their own car, a pool car, R&D etc etc Anyone that JLR would 'loan' a car to is potentially in scope.....

R&D and Engineering would be a VX plate and yes all recent LRE cars are white.

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Current
RANGE ROVER Vogue 4.4L SDV8 - 2013 - Indus Silver, on Almond.
RANGE ROVER Vogue 4.4L V8 - 2002 - ex-2003 G4 Challenge Event Vehicle, Stage 3: Australia
RANGE ROVER HSE 4.4L V8 - 2004 - one-of-one Overfinch
RANGE ROVER P38a 4.0L V8 - 1999 - ex-2000 TReK Event Vehicle: South Africa

Previous:
RANGE ROVER Vogue 4.4L TDV8 - 2012 - RANGE ROVER 3.6L TDV8 x3 - RANGE ROVER Td6 x1 - RANGE ROVER Classic 3.5L V8 x1

First letter O is a standard Oxford registration area and OV and OY are standard issue numbers. Statistically likely to have been an ex-JLR car, but equally could just have been registered new in the Oxford registration area by a first owner.

V is from the Worcester registration area (although the local DVLA offices have long gone but the principle still exists in the DVLA of a registration area) and VX is again a standard plate registration although seems much favoured by the R&D dept). Interesting fact is the V stands for Severn Valley (the area the Worcester office covered) Current Fleet:-
2018 Discovery 5 3.0 HSE
2021 Ford Ranger Wildtrack
2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt 5.0 V8
1993 Defender 90 200TDI Pickup

Gone - not forgotten
2016 L405 4.4 SDV8 Vogue SE
2012 L322 4.4 Westminster
2004 L322 4.4 V8 Autobiography LE
2000 P38 RR 4.0 HSE (ex Clarkson test car)

Of course, back in the day LR vehicles were Coventry and later Birmingham registrations.....😇 "YYS" G4 FFRR
G4 2006 Thailand Support Vehicle - Fleet Number 81

I wonder if Land Rover keep a register of all their Company registered cars showing their original allocation?

My first Range Rover was an ex Land Rover Company car.
At the time they were using lot of BKV numbers.
I was told my 2.5 VM Vogue was originally issued to one of the European Sales Directors based at Lode Lane, but I had no way of proving it, other than it was bought as LR used Approved.
Mike. G reg 2.5VM Vogue Portofino red 1991- 1999
V reg 2.5td P38 Rioja red 1999- 2006
53 reg td6 Vogue Oslo blue 2006- 2015
11 reg 4.4 TdV8 Vogue SE. Baltic blue 2015- date.
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Depends.... Camel and G4s did! "YYS" G4 FFRR
G4 2006 Thailand Support Vehicle - Fleet Number 81

Baltic Blue wrote:

.....I had no way of proving it, other than it was bought as LR used Approved.

That's a good point - I know that JLR auction some of their cars into their dealer network. However, there are others that are put through public auctions.

The L405 that I did my experience day in was for sale with Saxton 6 months or so later......http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic36323.html

VX is a popular registration prefix with engineering vehicles

Some 2004/05 registered 2006 model year AJ V8's

The 2018 405 I drove at the Land Rover Experience:

a lot of the press launch vehicles which arent white are also OY, we have had none white LRE vehicles too, for example when new MY comes out. Cheers

James