Buying Opinions SUVs - MB, VW, BMW..

**+44 Dave** · October 8th, 2007, 17:14

Range Rovers are built about 20 minutes away from me so if it breaks down it wouldnt have far to go back. And to be honest i think the build quality things a bit of a myth that has been developed solely because Land Rover are British and people dont associate our working class as being particularly hard working...
I've never seen a Range Rover at side of the road. And the Queen uses them at her Balmoral Estate in Scotland so they cant be to bad. She does have plenty of them however.
For motorway driving theres easily enough grunt in that 400bhp engine, thats more than most SUV's. And i dont think many SUV's corner well due to there centre of gravity.

**emc2rs4** · October 9th, 2007, 02:23

I like this Touareg ad: http://www.volkswagen.de/vwcms_publi...0009.File.html

By the way, sales rep. offer me an overnite test drive for T2 ^__^
But I have to find a free time to pick up.

**Arslanoff** · October 11th, 2007, 17:41

What about the Touareg R50? I like that one! Very cool!

**Leadfoot** · October 11th, 2007, 19:37

Originally Posted by Arslanoff

What about the Touareg R50? I like that one! Very cool!

Agreed it's nice and looks amazing but it's still a £60K VW and that means it will lose the best part of 35% in the first year, plus it's still got a huge big heavy V10 at the nose that will dull the handling. Compared to the others in the list the VW in this form is the least desirable in my opinion. But then again price and running cost do mean a lot to me.

**Fab** · October 28th, 2007, 11:55

I picked up my new ML 500 (5.5l 388hp) with AMG body kit last Thursday. What a great car. I love it. the drive is incredible and all the MBs gadgets are great. The sat nav is incredible, better than Audi.

The ML is a great complement to the RS4

I will break in the car a bit before to get the full engine perf and post a review. Some pics :

**Fab** · October 28th, 2007, 11:57

some more

**AndyBG** · October 28th, 2007, 13:08

First of all, Fab congrat's to you !

Beutifull car, enjoy it ! (Alltough it was better for you to get Cayenne S)

Just kidding, great car !

As far as this thread is concerd, and offered list of cars, call me old fashioned, but my choice would be VW Touareg. I love the ''classic'' look of it and it was one of my favourite cars from day one.