Should have a retractable blind for the pan roof. Until I saw the interior it was worryingly similar to the one that I had (for two weeks)Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 4:42 pm Thank you That plus a pale interior and Panasonic (sic) roof makes it super-airy. It might end up being a greenhouse come summer though.
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Hope you get it home fast so it can be among even more cars than in the picture.Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 4:06 pmWell that didn't last longSundayjumper wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 12:43 pm I'm behaving myself at the moment and waiting until both are gone before I buy anything new.
New car game. What kind of silver 2017 Range Rover 4.4 SDV8 Autobiography did I buy today ??
Excellent, good looking interior too. It should be a terrific place to while away the miles. Let us know how the first drive pans out.
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Thank you. It ended up being delivered last night. It’s been to Tesco (fuel) & Sainsbury’s (in store Argos for a data SIM) today. It’s reporting 21mpg for that pootling about. Not great but the Bentley would be doing ~10mpg so this is quite an improvement. I tried pitching this to the wife as me being financially prudent but she saw right through it.Explosive Newt wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 5:32 pm Hope you get it home fast so it can be among even more cars than in the picture.
Excellent, good looking interior too. It should be a terrific place to while away the miles. Let us know how the first drive pans out.
Actually it’s interesting to compare to the Bentley. I was slightly surprised that the a-pillars in the RR are just coloured plastic. The Bentley has leather, it’s leather *everywhere*. RR V8 is impressively smooth….. for a diesel. The W12 is just awesome though. The trade off being 2x the fuel consumption of course.
It’ll have a proper run on Thursday, the long drive to work & back. Very much looking forward to the adaptive cruise control & having CarPlay. Just like a Golf !
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P.S. how’s the Aston shopping going ?
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On gentle questioning Mrs Newt informed me that she was violently yet slowly remove my testicles if I remortgaged the house to buy a car so I may need to do a little more saving before I can start browsing autotrader again…
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Yours is an Autobiography isn’t it? I thought that would mean alcantara headlining and pillars at least. The RRS Autobiography I went in felt nicely plush inside, and I’d always felt an RR is a step up.Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 7:34 pm Actually it’s interesting to compare to the Bentley. I was slightly surprised that the a-pillars in the RR are just coloured plastic. The Bentley has leather, it’s leather *everywhere*.
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Headlining yes, pillars no. As I said, I was surprised. Even the Cayenne is fabric to match the headlining, not bare plastic.
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Would it have been an option or part of an extended leather (or similar) package? Does sound a bit stingy given what it would have cost new.
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Quite possibly, I’ve not looked. There’s lots of leather elsewhere and it’s all very lovely. I’m not disappointed with the car !DeskJockey wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 7:37 am Would it have been an option or part of an extended leather (or similar) package? Does sound a bit stingy given what it would have cost new.
Another area - inside the door pockets. Leather in the Bentley (and Aston FWIW), flocked in the RR.
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As the rr is designed to be able to go off road, it’s possibly plastic as it’s a potential touch point when entering or exiting the vehicle with the possibility of having hands covered in horse shit, so anything other than plastic or leather would be ruined- you’d clean your hands once you got sat back down so other controls wouldn’t be damaged but the a pillar would be fucked
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I thought the Autobiography had the full leather as standard. But if the headlining is alcantara and the pillars aren't that's just weird. Porsche charge you extra for the sunvisors to be covered in alcantara (Race Tex as they call it) on top of the cost of the alcantara headlining, but the pillars are always included with the headlining.DeskJockey wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 7:37 am Would it have been an option or part of an extended leather (or similar) package? Does sound a bit stingy given what it would have cost new.
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Maybe it is as @jamcg says, a nod to the cars intended purpose.
Edit: or recognition of who normally buys them new, and the extra money that can be extracted from them.
Edit: or recognition of who normally buys them new, and the extra money that can be extracted from them.
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Headlining is leather. Sun visors are leather on the side you see when they’re up, alcantara on the other side. Secondary visors are alcantara. Dash is leather. Doors are leather top half, plastic lower half. A, B, C, D pillars are plastic.
I’ve no idea if this is standard but honestly, it’s far too late for me to worry over it
I’ve no idea if this is standard but honestly, it’s far too late for me to worry over it
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I'm surprised by the plastic pillars and door panels.
My Jag has alcantara/suede pillars and roof lining/sun visors and everywhere else is leather or piano black wood.
Its been a while since I've been in that shape RR so I can't remember if they're all like that, but probably to make sure it's easy to clean, which would make sense.
My Jag has alcantara/suede pillars and roof lining/sun visors and everywhere else is leather or piano black wood.
Its been a while since I've been in that shape RR so I can't remember if they're all like that, but probably to make sure it's easy to clean, which would make sense.
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Sort of related but opposite, I'm getting a steady flow of people doing stupid lowball offers on the Bentley "because it has to go to a main dealer for repairs and they're expensive".
Fcuk off. Nobody buys a £5k Bentley and then writes the main dealer a blank cheque to look after it
(I'm not selling it for £5k, that's what they're offering, and one person tried for £3k)
Fcuk off. Nobody buys a £5k Bentley and then writes the main dealer a blank cheque to look after it
(I'm not selling it for £5k, that's what they're offering, and one person tried for £3k)
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I thought you had planned to sell the Bentley prior to buying the RR?
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Explosive Newt wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 11:09 am I thought you had planned to sell the Bentley prior to buying the RR?
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