New Rover guy needs help on Marinello wheels

[stolenheron]

i think a chrome center cap would be find...if you hate it, grab some rattle can.

its true. the full size and sport models aren't for offroading anymore. well they can offroad, and some do, but they are marketed to the street crawling luxury crowd.

[XtremeMarine]

If your going to rock the cragars; we got to get a petition going to get the teflon coated "mojave" wheel made in LR offsets and bolt hole applications. Those would be killer on any Rover. Even a RR3 HSE or RRS.

[ArmyRover]

Originally Posted by Jupiter Rover

the little bit of chrome gives it some class haha.. it is a Land Rover after all.. 60k brand new back in the day.

How dare you accuse my RRC of having class.... Neither she nor I have any class I thought that would be evident to all by now

[Thor]

Originally Posted by BullDogSix

Lets face it, the Range Rover Sport/Range Rover HSE is not marketed to the off road crowd...and for what its worth, neither was the Classic in North America in its day. It's only been second and third hand owners who fully tap what a Classic or Disco has to offer off road. In the UK/Europe different story...Land Rovers there are much more utilitarian...less fluff...at least up until the late 80's...and that's where their off-road prowess was made legend.

I mean really, if you went out and dropped $80k on a Range Rover HSE you're not really gonna go out and wheel it thru the sticks, picking up pinstripes and rock dings. Now, go buy a used 2003/04 RR for $25k...you might not be so worried about it. Given a little time I bet you will see the after-market begin to make more trail worthy items for them...especially if enthusiasts start to use them to their full potential. Yes, they have an over abundance of electric gizmos...but compared to other domestic vehicles, so did the Classic RR when it hit the US

If you look at 90% of the ads for the RR mk1 and the RRC, they were in off pavement situations, and they did the Great Divide Expedition in 1990 (or so) to gain attention.

My point was the new non live-axle rovers will not be as simply mod-able and you will never see the numbers that the live-axle RR's (RR mk1, RRC, and RR mk2). At some point we will run out of worthy LR's.

I wouldn't even notice if the LR3, Freelander, RR3 or RRS were discontinued. I just don't view those as vehicles worthy of the LR name and heritage.

Even the Queen has gone off road in a RR1 for heaven's sake!

The fast SUV is nearly the most worthless thing ever invented. I'd go after a E55 estate car or an M5 estate car if that need arose.