stan wrote:

a way to find out the tax on the range rover is to find what you are looking for on autotrader and then look at the 'running costs'.

the car tax is quoted along with the official mpg..

Highroller wrote:

The AJ engines 4.4L (Non Supercharged) Started in 2005 - As they were the 2006 model year upgrade & are totally different to the BMW engined variant. Different H/lamps, Gearbox, Interior etc.

Unfortunately they are getting quite rare now.

Also £360 Road tax.

Fox889 wrote:

If fuel costs are a thought, get a piece of paper & work out 3k miles at 20mpg for the petrol & 28mpg for the 3.6 diesel & see what the difference is, bear in mind that up here at least, diesel is 25ppl more expensive than petrol, that’s £1.13 a blinking gallon more expensive than petrol.
In your scenario I would err on the side of a nice well sorted 4.2 supercharged that’s been very well looked after.
Just my twopennyworth 😁

mjdronfield wrote:

So just done a quick calculation using costs at my local Tesco… petrol 150.9 a litre, diesel at 173.9 a litre, using 3000 miles and 20 mpg against 28…..

Petrol RR £1029
Diesel RR £845.15

Obviously the more miles you do, the difference is greater… but it’s not a massive difference and differing road tax costs may easily shift that….

Haylands wrote:

check the rear of the sills and the rear wheel arches for rot, don't buy one from a coastal town... etc etc...

and then you would also have to know where every past owner has lived, and that is no longer possible due to GDPR

best just to visually give the car a thorough looking over !

I’ve had a 2008 3.6 TDV8 and now have a 2009 4.2 supercharged. I used to do 12,000 miles per year in the TDV8 and now do 5,000 miles per year in the 4.2. I do miss the torque of the diesel but I have to say there’s a lot less to go wrong on the 4.2 (no EGRs, or turbos - which killed the TDV8, or DPF on later diesels). I lucked out finding a really clean 4.2 supercharged at a dealer, it’s been great since then but I have my eyes open and know what it costs to keep an L322 running in good shape. I think there’s a lot to be said for a clean petrol powered L322 if you’re not doing big annual mileages. ---------------------------------------
2009 4.2 SC Buckingham Blue
2021 Hilux 2.4

Petrol or Diesel, the age old question car forum users ask all the time, non more so than me.

So using an online fuel calculator just now (I do this regularly) I will show some brief details and comparisons:

I will compare a Petrol car doing 20mpg = say FFRR 5.0 S/C

Versus...

Diesel car doing 30mpg = say FFRR 4.4 TDV8

Petrol:

£148 per litre UK average on 17.02.23
1000 miles
£336

Diesel:

£1.70 per litre UK average on 17.02.23
1000 miles
£257

So the 1000 miles will cost £79 more for the petrol V8

Over a year lets say 5000 miles:

Petrol £1683
Diesel £1289

So the annual mileage will cost £394 more a year in the petrol, or £7.57 more a week......

FYI

Steve

Thank you Steve that is very helpful.

Well I could definitely live with that with regards to running a petrol over a diesel.

A 4.4 V8 then for me!

I fit into the low annual mileage category. If I don't do the 3 long trips I am thinking of this year, I thinks my annual average mileage might be as low as 3000 to 4000........

Which opens to door for a 5.0 S/C.


Just got to get the mental thing sorted in my head to go Petrol. Certainly makes sense in the wear and tear stakes V diesel.....

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@Jessica Jones did say that the majority of her journeys are 3 miles or less.

In my petrol S/C 5.0 that's 6mpg. I know because I used to drop off and pick my wife up from the station! I use my EV now

Just for information.

Yeah it’s not an exact science. The 1000 mile journey above is purely theoretical. Straight road for the whole journey. No braking. Steady speed. Completely and utterly impossible. But just to illustrate the bare mathematical difference in the 2 fuels X cost X MPG etc. If I’m honest I think I will still go for the TDV8. Only working 2 days a week after retirement from my main profession leaves plenty of time for random 50 mile journeys to keep a diesel engine in good order !!!

I’m still sticking to a petrol one and see how I go. Can always change if it doesn’t work out but I’m looking forward to trying the V8.