z31maniac said:
Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:
In reply to z31maniac :
I paid 79k for a 1905 Victorian, 2 story 1400 sq ft 3 bed 1 bath in Spokane WA in 2016. It wasn't the cheapest on the market by far. I admit I did get a good deal because he was rushing to leave the area and didn't shampoo carpets etc but there were several houses in the 50k range.
I sold it for more and the area has boomed now too
Spokane is a small town, even by Oklahoma standards.
How much would that house have cost in Portland? You have to understand most people don't want to live in some backwater, hilljack area, and that's why homes are cheaper in those areas.
Yeah, no
Spokane has over 200k people and a suburb with about 100k ,even has an international airport.
That's not a backwater no matter how poorly you googled
I want to spend stoopid money on my XJ.
In reply to Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) :
Both are cool, but for the price? Not for me. Not sure why everyone gets in a tizzy over it.
Not for you? Then don't buy it. It's that simple.
Whenever Mrs. Snowdoggie complains about what I spend on that old Jeep, I show her the Davis Autosports Website where people are spending stoopid money on cool old Jeeps.
Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:
z31maniac said:
Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:
In reply to z31maniac :
I paid 79k for a 1905 Victorian, 2 story 1400 sq ft 3 bed 1 bath in Spokane WA in 2016. It wasn't the cheapest on the market by far. I admit I did get a good deal because he was rushing to leave the area and didn't shampoo carpets etc but there were several houses in the 50k range.
I sold it for more and the area has boomed now too
Spokane is a small town, even by Oklahoma standards.
How much would that house have cost in Portland? You have to understand most people don't want to live in some backwater, hilljack area, and that's why homes are cheaper in those areas.
Yeah, no
Spokane has over 200k people and a suburb with about 100k ,even has an international airport.
That's not a backwater no matter how poorly you googled
Yes, it is. Even the Tulsa area is nearly 1.3 million. No matter how poorly you googled it.
Why do people from the coasts try so hard to denigrate the middle of the country while having so little knowledge of it?
Don't be upset.
Just say Ta Ta to Range Rover and buy something else.
noddaz said:
Don't be upset.
Just say Ta Ta to Range Rover and buy something else.
I see what you did there.
noddaz said:
Don't be upset.
Just say Ta Ta to Range Rover and buy something else.
Like a real off road vehicle?
In reply to z31maniac :
It's still not a backwater, it basically has the population of St Louis which is one of the huge problems of Spokane, too many people for the infrastructure it has.
I didn't Google Tulsa, why would I?
And when the berkeley did I say anything bad about the middle of the country and why are you so pissy about it?
m4ff3w said:
Man, I love the new Defender though.
I wanted to, but after driving one, bought a 4runner. I really, really wanted the Defender to make sense, but it felt cheap.
Steve_Jones said:
m4ff3w said:
Man, I love the new Defender though.
I wanted to, but after driving one, bought a 4runner. I really, really wanted the Defender to make sense, but it felt cheap.
Wow, really?
I was really hoping after a few years of hopefully massive depreciation I could replace my UJ100 Land Cruiser with one.
Duke
MegaDork
3/16/21 9:41 a.m.
captdownshift (Forum Supporter) said:
Fun fact, a spice girl once claimed to have designed it. (Apparently by mistake)
Well it is absolutely designed FOR spice girls.
2 door SUVs are cool. Convertibles are cool. Vehicles that have option sheets with red, orange, white, or mint green leather are even cooler.
If you buy an Evoque, you can have all of those things... PLUS piss people off while standing still? Brrrr. I might need to put on a coat.
docwyte
PowerDork
3/16/21 2:10 p.m.
So speaking of real off-roaders, with the massive 2 foot snow storm we just had here I actually had to USE the one off roader we have. To get around I had to toss it into 4 low several times and lock up the rear diff a couple of times.
My VW hasn't come out of the garage and probably won't for several more days until things melt more. AWD and snow tires don't fix a complete lack of ground clearance or a lack of a low range transfer case.
While we don't get snow like this that often, having a real 4wd capable vehicle is something I need. Luckily I can use this Xterra for the next few years before my daughter goes to college. If we get a storm bad enough I need it, her school will be canceled and she won't need it.
That does make me think that in a few years I should either replace the R with something with a real transfer case, or buy another Xterra like vehicle to just have kicking around. That will give me a few years to see just how horribly unreliable the new Disco's are, lol!
I know driving and taking pictures is not the smartest move ... but driving on the highway with a dog on your lap while half hanging out the window is downright stupid.
Paint it purple with gold flames and it would look for all the world like a hotwheels generic.
and not to flounder too much but not all populated areas we call "cities" are created equal. I moved from a non-coast metro of 2m to another non-coast of 500k. Not until I'd lived here a few months did I realize the drastic difference.
Not in a good way.
At all.
Seriously.
If I had FU money and wasn't concerned about reliability I'd take one. A decent set of all terrain tires and it's probably a fun beach cruiser.
In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :
People with FU money are driving evoques ? Oh how the world must have changed
In reply to mr2s2000elise :
My taste isn't going to improve just because I have money. Something about a convertible 4x4 appeals to me.
mtn (Forum Supporter) said:
I bet that the only thing you'd need to modify are the tires and possibly a roll cage, only for safety considerations, and this ugly thing would be as good as just about any "real" off roader off the showroom floor.
It isn't any different mechanically than the normal evoque, which was driven across Africa for some production.
I bet when they drove across Africa, they stuck to roads.
z31maniac said:
Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:
z31maniac said:
Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:
In reply to z31maniac :
I paid 79k for a 1905 Victorian, 2 story 1400 sq ft 3 bed 1 bath in Spokane WA in 2016. It wasn't the cheapest on the market by far. I admit I did get a good deal because he was rushing to leave the area and didn't shampoo carpets etc but there were several houses in the 50k range.
I sold it for more and the area has boomed now too
Spokane is a small town, even by Oklahoma standards.
How much would that house have cost in Portland? You have to understand most people don't want to live in some backwater, hilljack area, and that's why homes are cheaper in those areas.
Yeah, no
Spokane has over 200k people and a suburb with about 100k ,even has an international airport.
That's not a backwater no matter how poorly you googled
Yes, it is. Even the Tulsa area is nearly 1.3 million. No matter how poorly you googled it.
Why do people from the coasts try so hard to denigrate the middle of the country while having so little knowledge of it?
Tulsa also has Hallet Raceway which is really cool.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:
mtn (Forum Supporter) said:
I bet that the only thing you'd need to modify are the tires and possibly a roll cage, only for safety considerations, and this ugly thing would be as good as just about any "real" off roader off the showroom floor.
It isn't any different mechanically than the normal evoque, which was driven across Africa for some production.
I bet when they drove across Africa, they stuck to roads.
Good chance of that. I haven't watched the video. But here are some roads in Africa:
In reply to P3PPY :
I don't disagree, but 300k people isn't a backwater by any means. Spokane, believe it or not makes lists on being a city growing fast too. I actually dislike Spokane a lot which is why I moved too.
I live in a town with barely over 1k people, that's a backwater lol
Keith Tanner said:
DirtyBird222 said:
They died when they started catering to the status crowd and stopped using Lucas electronics.
To be fair, they died a lot when using Lucas electrics too...
32 Thumbs up and counting...I don't recall ever seeing as high of score.
