Out of Pod Experience

It's an SUV!

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/lamborghini-not-secret-suv-leaks-early-urus-153631899.html

Urgh, it is ugly.

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Give me a fuckin patrol I'll show em how to go through a bog

You didn't see the Top Gear episode where a commercial van (a diesel Ford Transit van) was passing Porsches and other sports cars on the Nürburgring track? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=5KiC03_wVjc&NR=1


I, for one, welcome our hyper-sports car SUV overlords.

It's a hatchback with big tires on it. I think I'll stick to my Disco even if she does have a fat ass and chugs gas like a sailor in a bar.

Now that I could get in to. Kind of bears a little resemblance to the hummer when the hummer actually looked good.

Gimmy a landrover defender and I'll show you how to go through anything.

Bah those things cant go off road, at least not where the defender can go

and then they try to ride it in tarmac and crash the damn thing in the first serious corner they see.

the Defender is an awesome offroad vehicle, but having live axles on both front and rear makes it less than optimal to maintain stability in tarmac.

ORLY
I'm still trying to find the fully submersible Defender.

I got to looking at the stats for each. The defender has a 2.2 liter 4 cylinder diesel, which is ok for its size and it does pump out a decent 360 lb of torque which is essential for the low range power you need for those hill climbs. However, the Alpha holds a 6.6 liter beast with 520 lb of torque. easily capable of keeping up.

Not only that, but the towing capacity of the defender is abysmal. The average weight that I found on the defender is a whipping 3500lbs, which is essentially another Defender. But if you are looking at dragging a 40ft trailer to that remote lake I do believe that the Alpha's 17, 300 lb towing capacity will do quite nicely.

I'll also note that the Defenders base ground clearance is 12 inches. Pretty decent for clearing those nasty rocks. But again the Alpha beats it by 4 inches for an impressive 16" clearance.

Now the Defender does have the alpha beat on turning radius, which is to be expected with smaller vehicles. But that's ok because as you can see in the above video not even a 6ft wall can stop a hummer.

Don't get me wrong, I like my Land Rover just as much as the next guy, but at least I can admit when I'm outclassed. Hell, my dad's GMC pickup outperformed the Disco on our drive back from California. We filled up at the same gas station in Stockton and by the time we got to Wichita I was riding on fumes while he still had almost a quarter of a tank left. And while riding with cruise control on, each time we hit an inclined I would immediately lose speed while the GMC didn't even notice. Let alone the fact that he can basically haul a Sherman Tank with his transmission. In fact about the only thing I really had him beat on was the luxury interior, though that doesn't mean much because the GMC is a working man's truck and if you ever find it clean there is something wrong. I would also like to point out that the vehicle quality is not all that it's cracked up to be. In the 2 years that I've had it my transmission has burned up, I've got multiple oil leaks, 2 of my electronic door locks don't work, I've got the 3 amigo's lighting up on my dashboard, and my master cylinder is going out. I owned a nissan pickup truck for a decade of vehicular abuse and never once took it in the shop for anything more than a oil change.

I've noticed that all of your vehicle knowledge comes from 5th Gear so no doubt I'm sure that you'll want to broadcast the episode where they compete a Range Rover against a Hummer H2 and Escalade. But I'm sure I don't need to remind you that it was a H2 and not an alpha. The H2 and the H3 are simply **** and are geared towards high end soccer mom's. If wanted wanted a real challenge I would have offered up a Jeep Unlimited which not only can outperform both of those SUV's, it can do so at literally less than half the price. And just for the record, my little pick up could of made it up that hill they were climbing.