(12-07-2014 08:57am)XFullFatTim Wrote:  I have to agree with both Tony and J77, even compared to my last Evoque the new one has more rattles and in places I never had them in the old car which was one of the earliest cars produced. The finish and rattles would be unacceptable in a Skoda costing £13000 ( wouldn't be there on delivery either) so they simply should not exist in cars costing between double and four times the cost. They even more inexcusable in a car that has been in production for three years. One really does wonder if Land Rover management gives a monkey's cuss about customers feed-back - they certainly don't seem to have learned anything whatsoever in the last 10-15 years. It's about time each executive at LR had a deduction from salary equal to the cost of repairing build issues for every car that has to be returned to a dealership for quality and poor build issues because it is at the factory that the problems need to be sorted and not at the dealers.
Land Rover and Range Rover cars are now being sold at a price point where these issues simply should not be there when the customer takes delivery, if production has to be slowed or even stopped until they get quality and finish right then so be it, but this customer is getting fed up with having to return brand new cars to dealers to have quality issues fixed that should never be there in the first place - rattles, software out of date in months issues and tat quality fittings issues need fixing asap otherwise customers will abandon the brand very rapidly. It's time LR built the cars up to the price they charge for them.

(12-07-2014 10:59am)XFullFatTim Wrote:  Tony, mechanically I am very pleased with it. The general finish is faultless BUT it still has rattles and cheap and flimsy trim that should have been cured in 2012 with the changes then, LR had enough to read about dissatisfaction from owners then and appear to have done little or nothing except give management ever fatter pay cheques on the back of unjustified price rises. It used to be said that the best built Land Rover cars were those built at Halewood, now I would say the Solihull has left Halewood in the shade as Halewood pushes more and more cars downthe production line in less and less time and it seems to me that longer build time on the line and more time spent taking care and pride in what is built would not go amiss. I will not be replacing my current Evoque with another Halewood built Land Rover if this is the best that they can do. But like J77 I also would consider a Korean car over a German car these days, the Germans build such boring and clinical machines.

(12-07-2014 04:21pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  Tony, I too have had drives in new FFRR and new RRS and totally agree with you about your findings, but I also think that they are heading into the "overpriced for what they are" realm even if build quality is first rate. I was also very impressed with the lowest powered FFRR, one thing for sure it didn't feel like a small engine in a large car!