Hello! I am about an year away from paying off my two seater Porsche, can pay it off sooner. Also, have a family hauler. Thinking of leasing a Range Rover Sport after I pay off the former.
Now, there are people who argue it’s no fun driving a base model luxury car - it must be loaded with features.
When I bought my manual Porsche, I heard the same arguments. At about 72k MSRP, by no means it was a base model - it came with 19’’ turbo wheels, premium sound system and sport seats.
But the only thing or two I always enjoyed are the way she accelerates and the sound of that 3.4 liter flat 6.
Is a Range Rover Sport similar? What are the features that are an absolute must? I love the idea of a torquey diesel engine and of course its fuel economy.
What am I going to miss if I get a base Range Rover Sport HSE TD6.
It appears that blind spot assist is an option on an $80K car. wow. So that would be a starter. Besides that, I think it would be nice to have the activity key and the HUD
On the I6 model, aside from exterior aesthetics (personal choices), the features I would add would be as follows:
- Heated front and rear seats
- At least the midrange Meridian system for like $300, if not the higher end
- Park pack - you need this
- Drive pack - RR adaptive cruise in the drive pro pack doesn’t really work that well.
- Power tailgate - only $100
That would be the bare minimum I would accept on the RR Sport.
Puts you right around $72K
I’ve been looking at these and apparently it isn’t and the configurator is incorrect. I found one with a low msrp I liked, only had two options. I asked the dealer if it had blind spot, despite it not being listed, and they said they all come with it (and sent me a video of the car with it).
I had a 2016 RRS HST before my M340i. Great SUV, the beefier engine was nice and the blacked out exterior accents were very cool. Miss it.
Ok makes sense. It includes stuff like 360 camera standard so I was really surprised
Monitor or assist? From what my contact and their product specialist have told me, monitoring is included, assist (actual steering) is an option at least on the td6 RRS HSE.
I have never used the heated seats as I live in South Florida. But a premium sound system, park assist and power tailgate I believe are needed. Thank you. Gotta look up on Drive pack though.
I found the steering assist on a rented Cadillac Escalade to be a little annoying but may be it needs a little getting used to.
HUD I like from what I have seen but the activity key? What if you lose it with the keys left inside the car?
Then you lost a key. It’s similar to a watch, and unless you’re loosing watches then I wouldn’t loose too much sleep.
I can’t comment on comparison to an Escalade, haven’t driven an Escalade compared to a sport yet (a contact was so gracious to have me source a used one locally).
Read the reviews, I was going to pull the trigger on one,No way I want my wife yelling at me everytime it breaks.
Most of my clients have not had mechanical or electrical issues that are not self imposed. I highly recommend at least test driving one, they are indeed very nice vehicles.
The 2018 X5M at $100k+ didn’t have blind spot monitoring as standard, and you could only get basic cruise control.
Every make seems to have its weird specs and omissions. All designed to force people to pay more.
For the RRS I’d be tempted by a 2017 CPO SVR as they’re in the $70-80k range now with low-ish mileage.
i love the car but if it breaks i will never hear then end of it with my wife, Battery went out on current car while parked in the Garage. When she called you would of thought the house was on fire.
She needs something with a great track record.
Adaptive cruise control was most likely left off for airflow, the giant sensor on the bottom bumper probably messed with cooling or wasn’t putting down enough air/fuel ratio for what bmw wanted out of the turbo’s.
Same reason they left off adaptive cruise initially on the hellcats and still isn’t available on the charger.
I’m sure they could figure a way around it but seems like they are either lazy or trying to save money.
If you thought that was bad, you should try selling it when you inevitably tire of it.
Isn’t the whole reason of a hellcat is to run it fast and showoff speeding / weaving skills, adaptive cruise control goes against the hellcat buyers purpose
Lol.
I mean the m5 and e63 are also supposed to go fast.
Weaving is not the chargers game, straight line only really.
Using acc on the highway is nice, kinda useless on city streets though, it’s not a deal breaker but it would be nice.
It is weird though how manufacturers have different quirks. I remember when my parents bought the Honda pilot in 05 and Honda had a quirk where they offered navigation or rear entertainment system but not both together, countless examples come to mind but that one might be the most bizarre by far.