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30-01-2021, 09:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 30-01-2021, 09:45 PM by Tigerfish.)
With too much time on my hands, I sometimes find myself hankering after changing my car, but in truth today there are no cars about that excite me.
I have grown up to love big heavy or powerful cars. In the early days big and very powerful Jaguars, later a string of Toyota Landcrusers and Mercedes ML’s. I always insisted on an unrefueled range in excess of 500 miles so that for example leave home in Bristol and see a client in Sheffield and come home again without having to stop for fuel.
But all the modern electrics and electric and Petrol Hybrids are weedy things designed for short local journeys, no bl**** use at all for real motoring.
So is the art of real motoring dead?
TF
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Yes, I think true motoring died years ago , the cars of today all look the same and no fun to drive
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Now just boring, boring,boring, but driving classic vehicles helps.
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Could it be that we are mostly of a sedentary disposition? We have probably all had our thrills and spills over the years, I know that I have, both on four wheels and two. I used to love driving and I still do love driving my motorhome, but thank goodness that I don't have to drive every day, it's a rat race. But no doubt the youngsters of today are just as enthusiastic as we used to be and for them, the motoring future looks bright,as it used to in our younger days
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Sorry AD, but they will never be experience the sheer joy of setting off on a long journey in a powerful XK engined Jaguar or heading out over rough terrain in a Landcruiser knowing that come what May you will get there and come back!
Today’s toy cars are about as tough as a chocolate fire guard!
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Our Defender is only ten yrs old, but can handle rough terrain with little difficulty!
Bags of grunt & power, and great fun to drive 
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If anybody wants to enjoy the open road, buy a good motorbike and get out on rural roads. The enjoyment is still as good as it was in the 60s.
Car driving on motorways and built up areas is boring. Yes you can get to your destination quicker but there is no thrill in the journey.
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(31-01-2021, 12:13 AM)Tigerfish Wrote: Sorry AD, but they will never be experience the sheer joy of setting off on a long journey in a powerful XK engined Jaguar or heading out over rough terrain in a Landcruiser knowing that come what May you will get there and come back!
Today’s toy cars are about as tough as a chocolate fire guard!
TF
Think your spectacles may be tinted rather rosy TF.
Give me a modern reliable economical engine anytime, I've done too many running repairs in the past on so called reliable engines, hoping to get to my destination and back home 
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(31-01-2021, 12:43 PM)AlfiesDad Wrote: (31-01-2021, 12:13 AM)Tigerfish Wrote: Sorry AD, but they will never be experience the sheer joy of setting off on a long journey in a powerful XK engined Jaguar or heading out over rough terrain in a Landcruiser knowing that come what May you will get there and come back!
Today’s toy cars are about as tough as a chocolate fire guard!
TF
Think your spectacles may be tinted rather rosy TF.
Give me a modern reliable economical engine anytime, I've done too many running repairs in the past on so called reliable engines, hoping to get to my destination and back home
AD How very true are your comments. In my youth I had a job that required my to travel many miles per week, often over 1K per week. I found it was better to change every 6 months than put up with lost income having the car repaired even under warranty. I once took delivery of a new Austin 1100 at 8.00am drove to the office 15 miles away, nearly there and there was an almighty bag and smoke from engine, oil all over the road, the engine had disintegrated. Next new car was a Volvo never looked back .
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Between. 2003 and 2015 I had 4 Toyota Landcruisers. I was doing 30,000 miles a year then and swapped each one for another at 90,000 miles. So a total of 360,000 miles. I am a stickler for regular and timely servicing. But apart from Tyres and wiper blades etc, no failures of any parts were experienced- not even. Brake light bulbs!
Bomb proof reliability!
TF
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