I am currently considering moving up from my 4.2SC to a newer 2010my Autobiography. Probably second-hand with a bit of the depreciation hit taken.

What model would people recommend? Should I stick with the 5.0l SC or go for a TDV8 3.6 or wait for the bigger engined TDV8?

Anything that I should know about the models? Brakes, diffs, handling, reliability.

The cost of the petrol doesn't really worry me but i hate all the time spent in petrol stations. Equally I loathe diesel as a fuel - nasty smelly stuff.

As it not's my money, go for the new autobiography black

http://www.lookerslandroverlondon.co.uk/Ne...ition.aspx

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The cost of the petrol doesn't really worry me but i hate all the time spent in petrol stations. Equally I loathe diesel as a fuel - nasty smelly stuff.

I didn't think diesel smelt of anything.
Less than petrol which evaporates while you are trying to get it in the car.

I'd go new 4.4 TDV8, purely because I like diesel and they are almost as fast, have to be refueled less often and hold value better than the S/C.
If you are spending that kind of cash why get the 'old' TDV8.

iT LAD wrote:

As it not's my money, go for the new autobiography black

http://www.lookerslandroverlondon.co.uk/Ne...ition.aspx

Fox wrote:

I'd go new 4.4 TDV8, purely because I like diesel and they are almost as fast, have to be refueled less often and hold value better than the S/C.
If you are spending that kind of cash why get the 'old' TDV8.

Yours is what, an 07 plate?
Extemd the warentee a year and hold on.
Otherwise you'll look at the 4.4 and think... if only I'd waited.
Unless you have too much money. In which case buy a new one, and one for me too.

Emperor Mong wrote:

The cost of the petrol doesn't really worry me but i hate all the time spent in petrol stations. Equally I loathe diesel as a fuel - nasty smelly stuff.

Yeah, I used to think like that but I have finally converted to one of the log burners. Main reason is towing the tintent causes the battery on my pacemaker to go flat very quickly. This FFRR is my 1st diseasal but I really love 2 things about it.
1. 600 miles between fill ups.
2. Torque when towing. Not so much different over a S/C but massively improved over my old 4.4 Disco (sans S/C)

But you're right. Nasty smelly, greasy which gets everywhere. All over the pump handles, all over the floor round the pump (which then gets on your shoes) and I used to avoid all this by using a "Petrol Only" pump when I ran petrols.

Mind you, a rather amusing thing happened a long time ago. You need to picture it. I've just returned from living and working in the USA where I ran a Disco 2 V8 very happily. So we decided to come back to the UK for various reasons and I sent the wife home 6 weeks before me so I could pack up the house etc. Her list of things to do were
1. Rent us a house
2. Buy me a car.
3. Get the kids enrolled in school.

She called me in the US - "Buy a car? What on earth do I buy?"
Oh, get a Disco V8 I responded which she duly did. A nice black ES one.
So I get home early one saturday morning and she collected me from Heathrow in the D2. I drove us home which included a fuel stop at Toddington services on the M1. So I stand filling it up. Click. Pump handle docked and I looked at the display. £63.
At this point I had a real Tourettes moment right in the middle of the forecourt much to the wife's embarrasment. Almost hopping with disbelief I was noted as crying in a very anguished tone, "Sixty three F***ing quid. !!!!! That's a hundred F***ing bucks!!!" (I used to fill the D2 in the US for about $28 )
Most of the other drivers filling up started looking at their shoes etc. Wife hissing at me to shut up. Me almost apoplectic at the price of "gas".

Still ran it for 2 years though

So, if you don't tow, the 5.0 S/C, definitely the S/C. There's something about the smell of petrol and the whine of a supercharger. Smells like Victory.

If you do tow, the 4.4 TDV8 makes much more sense. I don't care much about the price of fuel nowadays but 8 or 9 MPG would cause more Tourettes moments I fear.

Just my 2p. It's your cash.

oy, and me...

Fox wrote:

Yours is what, an 07 plate?
Extemd the warentee a year and hold on.
Otherwise you'll look at the 4.4 and think... if only I'd waited.
Unless you have too much money. In which case buy a new one, and one for me too.

Trouble is, I have an itch for a new Rangie...

Last edited by Emperor Mong on 4th Oct 2010 7:43am. Edited 1 time in total

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XXXAngelXXX wrote:

SC !

Emperor Mong wrote:

I don't need another car with over 450bhp

So why ask about the 5.0 Litre SC ,

If your driving is almost all in town I would go for the S/C - the benefits of diesel economy only work when you do long runs and they are not there in stop start driving - take a look at the fuel consumption posts recently where people with diesels are reporting 14-18mpg in London driving. Diesels might be nice for economy but if you are sitting in city traffic the vibes and rattle (I know they are very well damped and muted but they are still there, I have a TDV8!) are not there in the 5.0V8 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

The diesel But if you drive only mainly city, don't take it. Problems with blasting free the filter will drive you mad. Test drove the 5 liter. Fantastic but most useless engine in such a car. It belongs in a Jag. And if yes get a extra tank bulid in. Daniel

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