Re: Range Rover Posted by Leslie on May 07, 1999 at 19:26:51: In Reply to: Range Rover posted by Christina on May 06, 1999 at 13:50:34: I really started to consider a Range Rover once I started seeing a few priced around $5000. I started asking a lot of questions, and quickly caught on to a few things. 1) Range Rovers are not Series Rovers. I don't know if you're familiar with Series Rovers, but they are rather easy to work on. Very simple. Range Rovers are extremely complex by comparison. Realize that if you are paying someone to work on it there will be a substantial bill for labor alone. Parts will cost more than most any other 4x4 out there. 2)Condition: The Range Rovers that you see for under $10,000 will be requiring quite a bit of work in the near future to keep them on the road. They're still not cheap. The least I've seen one for was $4500, and it had a dint in every single body panel. Don't get me wrong: they are tremendous off-road, and are made of nothing but pure 'class'. But unless you have a bank roll that can support one, I'd suggest (dare I say it here?) a Jeep Cherokee. A Jeep will go most places (more than any other non-Land Rover SUV), can be repaired for much less (parts can be found anywhere), and the initial price for a very good clean one will be much lower than what you'd bay for a Range Rover in similar condition. Actually, for what you'd pay for the lowest priced Range Rover, you can get a Cherokee in really good shape. Actually, I have two Jeeps and a Land Rover. The Cherokee is the wife's grocery-getter. The Wagoneer (the older big type) is my daily field vehicle (I'm a geologist), and the Series Land Rover is more of a recreational off-roading tinker toy. That may sound like heresy around here, but it works really well. Hope that helps.
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