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I absolutely love my BMW (but it's goodbye when whenever I can get my hands on a 2020 911) but the X7 can not compare to the King..the Range Rover. |
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Oh, yes! Jersey...one of the most expensive states to live in. You being from podunk-ville would think an X7 lease is making it. All while you dine on Chipotle and think it’s fine cuisine. Don’t forget to flash that Movado. Lmao!
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Do you hang out on the movado forums and talk about how much more “elegant” or “stately” your Rolex is too?
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08-20-2019, 03:33 PM | #75 |
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When did you abandon your masculinity? Just take your blingy SUV to the mall and enjoy some Dip n Dots. Lmao
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So do you consider your rr blingy? I’m confused because you’ve used the price as the main reason it’s more of a status symbol? That probably qualifies it as “bling” |
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I do love me some dippin dots though. Although I’m living paycheck to paycheck paying for my cars so I only get to splurge on dessert occasionally.
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Wow, you people have issues. Buy what you like for you, not for other people. I bought the X7 because I like it. I could have bought a range rover, and I do think it looks good, but I don't like the interior, however nice it is. I was seriously considering the new lincoln aviator, but I simply prefer the idrive system and interiors on bmw's.
And, you are naive if you think someone in an expensive car is wealthy. They could be living pay check to pay check in an apartment or have a mansion. Who cares. Buy what you like and enjoy life. |
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You just proved everybody's point: there is a certain niche of Range Rover customers; and you fit PERFECTLY in there... |
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Yup I read the entire thread...
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08-29-2019, 08:39 AM | #82 | |
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branding also succeeds at keeping people brand loyal for subjective reasons. i don't fantasize much about someone enjoying generational wealth in the british countryside with a shotgun over their shoulder and with their waders on. i'm generally resistant to marketing and FOMO and things like that. i have a check list just like everyone else and the vehicle that checks the most boxes in a given class is what i drive. fwiw, the asp of a range rover is not >100k, fyi. the bulk of the ones you see sold are to the average demographic of an x7 buyer. the lowly, merely affluent US consumer. sounds roughly like head to head competition to me. the fringe AB buyer is not the demographic demonstrative of what one buyer values vs another. the fat part of the distribution curve is. I've actually owned a bunch of Range Rovers. I've also owned a bunch of GLs. Much like miss duvy (a current land rover owner) im very objective on the topic. if someone is as convinced as you are that a range rover is >> x7 they aren't objective and they can't be engaged in constructive dialogue. besides, i don't care what you prefer and why, nor should you care what i prefer and why. go buy what you buy and the rest will be sorted out by automotive darwinism. if you can share something about range rovers I don't know, i'd love to hear that, though. that's what these forums are to me: information exchange. not trying to feel better about yourself for what you drive vs what the next person does. range rover will sell 15k range rovers this year in the US, BMW will sell roughly double that. Land rover will keep the niche smug brand whore buyer (i was once a smug brand whore buyer, myself), and that will likely never change. bmw will win over people who love the range (like me) but are open to leaving the brand for whatever reason (me). i have opinions of where the tata owned LR brand is headed. same for the RR itself. those opinions don't need validation, nor should you and yours. buy/fantasize what you like. that's the beauty of having options. |
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if i had seen this nonsense never would have acknolwedged your trolling with 3 mins of my time. jeez dude get it together. cognitive therapy isn't enough. going to want to dig deeper, i think
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God, I’m not sure I want to wade into this cesspool, but I cross shopped the Range Rover I I preferred the driving characteristics of the X7–specifically the suspension. I’d also say that when driving the GLS, RR and Cayenne, the X7 was the only car that I was smiling like a giddy kid while test driving.
So I bought X7. (Should be delivered in early October.). Does that make the X7 BETTER? Does it matter? To me it was better, and at the end of the day, since it’s my money and my happiness, nothing else should matter. If brand prestige is the only criterion, then maybe I settled for the less prestigious option. But unless you’re last name is Gates or Bezos, if your happiness is pegged on brand prestige alone, keeping up with the Joneses is going to be a perpetually losing battle. |
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Ah yes. Such as this Royal "Range Rover". |
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I also use/used both the RR and X7 to tow a 6,000lb boat. The diesel RR had the X7 beat in the towing dept off the line and going up hills, but the 40i X7 does just fine with it's turbo 6. I have no complaints with the X7 there. I've actually had several people come up to me in the boat ramp asking if I was sure "that BMW" could handle "that boat..." haha. As big as the X7 is, it still looks minuscule next to a jacked up Ram 2500 or Ford F-250. IMO, the RR totally wins in the exterior looks dept. Inside though, comparing the ride-quality and especially the interior luxury and tech pkg, BMW X7 wins hands down. I was so tired of the RR's outdated slow and clunky "infotainment" system. Plus, I wanted the X7's autonomous driving for all of the hours and hours of stop and go traffic I have to deal with in the Bay Area. Do I have any regrets? When I see another RR on the road I still think it's the best looking SUV on the road, but inside, the X7 suits me and my wife the best for driving nearly 20,000 miles per year, and towing a boat up steep mountain overpasses besides. I think the X7 is handsome also, but agree with other sentiments here, that it's more likely to be mixed up with an X5 or something and not as luxurious looking as an RR at first glance. That said, everyone who has seen and sat in my X7 in person has been *blown away* and I never got that kind of reaction out of the RR before! Now the RR Sport is another story....totally for posers who can't afford the real thing. kidding, kidding...kind of. |
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