(21-03-2013 08:34pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  I found a couple looking into and at mine today in a car park in Glasgow - even after 18 months people are still finding the Evoque a fascination. I treat all onlookers the same, unlock the car from a distance and when I get to it I ask them if they would like to see/ sit inside................. not had the offer turned down yet and even though my interior isn't one of the "regular" interiors being the Plus pack, everybody is very complimentary about it.

(21-03-2013 11:43am)XFullFatTim Wrote:  My Evoque is 18 months old and 15000 miles up. I'm starting to think about a replacement in the next 12 months but what to replace it with in a similar price range...............

a) Same again - New RRE Dynamic Coupe Plus Lux with a few extras, I love the car despite the shortcomings

b) New Disco4 HSE - can get one for not much more than a new Evoque after LR discounts

c) 2 years old 20,000 miler FFRR Autobiograpghy S/C or 4.4TDv8 of which there are several on the LR Approved Used website in contention, unfortunately they are Black which isn't a colour I would want but there is plenty of time for other colours to come up. Some poor soul has lost £40k in depreciation on an S/C FFRR in two years!

d) New preregistered with 50 miles on the odo Audi A6 Allroad which my local Audi dealership are offering with a heap of extras and £11000 discount on what they claim is a "cancelled" order

(22-03-2013 08:36am)XFullFatTim Wrote:  Invoke, I'm not yet ready for a motorised zimmer frame, all the wealthy oldies around here drive E class Mercs, most of them have an AMG badge on them but appear to be 220CDi's with AMG alloy wheels and a fancy steering wheel. Don't get me wrong, a real AMG is a performance tour de force but not the sort of image I wish. BMW and Merc sedans and estates are off my shopping list because they are RWD and they just cannot hack it when the roads turn white - this morning I notice two of my BMW owning neighbours are standing at the village bus stop in the driving snow rather than going into work in their 5 series rep-mobiles. A real AMG Merc is also way out of my price league in the UK, they are in the FFRR price bracket and I would much sooner have a new FFRR if spending that amount of money. I have to have 4WD ability would consider a Subaru BUT the local dealership just closed and a friend has one that has been off the road for 5 weeks waiting for some small parts to come from Japan.

There are some great suggestions there, but I'm finding it harder and harder to like Audi Q's, they may be great cars but hardly good looking. Porsche Cayenne's interior is a disaster ergonomically and also to me looks low rent with buttons scattered everywhere. I still have a deposit down on a new RRS and will be waiting until LR launches them and I can see one in the flesh, having had 2 previous RRS's I wouldn't be averse to another but not sure about the teaser pictures and it's scaled up Evoque-a-like shape.