What I Really Like - Some Pleasant Impressions

[@nd]

Another thing it has is ''presence'' i don't know how else to describe it, it's big and bold, you can't lose it in a crowded carpark on the road it stands out like a sore thumb
it's just there!!!
Downside 3 you cant get in to most carparks

 

[Trialmaster]

The other downside compared to the Landy is i can now hear my passenger...........................................................

Is that a benefit?

 

[DCPU]

One feature of the BMW auto shifter I really like is the button for park. It's so different to the really mechanical movement across the various selectors I've had in previous vehicles with an auto box; and it seems so much more mechanically sympathetic (although I have no evidence to suggest it actually is).

Well anyway, it's making me smile using it.

 

[emax]

The people I've met with the car so far all say the same thing: it's a beautiful car.

The technicians as well as car lunatics as well as the wife and daughter of a friend. I was surprised because some of them emphasized it "It's really a beautiful car".

That made me smile.

 

[Cheshire cat]

I'm growing to like mine without the side steps. Even though taller than my Defender, it feels easier to climb in and out of whilst still avoiding standing on the painted sills. Probably a different story on uneven ground.

 

[joejet]

Another thing it has is ''presence'' i don't know how else to describe it, it's big and bold, you can't lose it in a crowded carpark on the road it stands out like a sore thumb
it's just there!!!
Downside 3 you cant get in to most carparks

Can you get into 2.1m carparks? it should according to the specs.

 

[CountyV8]

Can you get into 2.1m carparks? it should according to the specs.

Do not trust carpark barrier measurements

 

[DCPU]

The people I've met with the car so far all say the same thing: it's a beautiful car.

The technicians as well as car lunatics as well as the wife and daughter of a friend. I was surprised because some of them emphasized it "It's really a beautiful car".

That made me smile.

Yes, I think it grows on you as well.

Caught my Mrs stopping to admire it from a different angle yesterday and she commented that she really liked the way it looked. Pretty certain she never said this about the old Defender, or indeed any of the other JLR products we've had.

She hated my Lightweight, although that might have had more to do with it leaving oil stains on her clothes on more occasions than not...

 

[AWo]

One downside is, It has the turning circle of an oil tanker but that you get use to.

BUT, an oil tanker has no 4x4 drive! That equals it out....

AWo

 

[Krabby]

… it's big and bold, you can't lose it in a crowded carpark on the road it stands out like a sore thumb …

That’s one situation that will not be the case here. It will be swallowed up by full-size, quad cab pickups in American parking lots.

 

[Eric]

Do not trust carpark barrier measurements

Especially those on the exit.....

 

[@nd]

Got stuck in our local Sainsbury’s , no height going in, only on exit. Funny people don’t like to driving out down the in ramp. !!

 

[ECrider]

Got stuck in our local Sainsbury’s , no height going in, only on exit. Funny people don’t like to driving out down the in ramp. !!

Same thing happened to the wife in the D4. Ok going in to the car park, scratched the roof bars to buggery on way out. Gits!

 

[Lollo050968]

I/We never had a car ever, which seems so interesting to other people. And only positive reactions. In the now two weeks in Scotland, we got every day minimum one positive response. On the filling station, on the car park, on the street with , funniest one was, that a man asked me in the Supermarkt if it´s mine Grenadier, we spoke a few minutes about it. Than at the women behind the cash desk asked me „Are you the one with the grenadier“, “Yes“, she closed the cash desk, went out to take some picture, came back to proceed with her work.
My wife said, we need some leaflets from Ineos, otherwise we have to tell the story 5 time a day.

 

[CountyV8]

We are telling the story 5 times a day

 

[DCPU]

You'd think your neighbour would have learnt to hide after the 3rd time?