fozsug Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 This http://www.mod-sales...ange_Rover_.htm has just gone up on Witham's site, at nearly 4 tons! What licence would you need to drive it?! And how good would the traction control and hill decent trying to cope with that mass! Nice though and with a boot full of spares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Can you imagine how much petrol it burns to get that thing going? Do you think they'll get the 30K for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Idris Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 A bargain if you got shot at Probably cost over 100k though, so good value for the task? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozsug Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 I suppose its worth £ 30k if you are protecting a diplomat or ' superstar', but you would need alot of work to pay to fuel it, to keep it running, surely it can only do 8 - 10 to the gallon at that weight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 You can drive it on your normal car license but I would advise anyone who wants to drive it to get some training-think HGV weight but on a smaller scale and that's £165000 + to buy it new too! I was using armoured Ford excursions-for 4-1/2 years and know very well what they can stand up to-this is a B6 category armoured vehicle and will/should withstand anything up a suicide car bomber and beyond as was found out by our other team when I was working in Mosul northern Iraq John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverik Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 You could have fooled me... doesn't look armoured... just another silver range rover... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Mav, Armoured glass on vehicles normally has the large black ring around the edge of it-It's part of the reinforcement for the edge of the glass that is bonded into the bodywork John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverik Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Not loud enough for me, I'd want big stickers saying "go on just try it" I was expecting something looking like it was out of Terminator or something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 I'd say the idea of making it look less obviously armoured is that whomever wants you dead won't just up the scale of their ordnance straight away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UdderlyOffroad Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 This http://www.mod-sales...ange_Rover_.htm has just gone up on Witham's site, at nearly 4 tons! What licence would you need to drive it?! The kind of places where you'd drive it isn't the kind of place where the police are too bothered about driving licence categories, and if they are, $50-100 is folding ones will usually take care of that....But as JBS has said you'd better have the training to know how to drive it.... And I think on balance, I'd prefer my armour plating to be discrete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 I'd say the idea of making it look less obviously armoured is that whomever wants you dead won't just up the scale of their ordnance straight away. Correct Discreet armouring is the name of the game with LR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverik Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 This is my kind of descreet ; Mav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 This is my kind of descreet ; Mav Chris, Is that your Bristol purchase? Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 You can drive it on your normal car license but I would advise anyone who wants to drive it to get some training-think HGV weight but on a smaller scale and that's £165000 + to buy it new too! I was using armoured Ford excursions-for 4-1/2 years and know very well what they can stand up to-this is a B6 category armoured vehicle and will/should withstand anything up a suicide car bomber and beyond as was found out by our other team when I was working in Mosul northern Iraq John Is that a normal car license for old people those who passed their test before 1997? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan110 Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 I can see plenty of Brixton drug dealers snapping it up at that price.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Ross, It was the weight of the vehicle I was on about mate, you could drive one on a UK road with your car license as it is for all intents and purposes a car-It's just armoured thats all and as someone has already pointed out "The kind of places where you'd drive it isn't the kind of place where the police are too bothered about driving licence categories" But a decent amount of training would be needed to be able to use the vehicle as a weapon If necessary and also a few other driving techniques for hostile environments such as Iraq/Afghanistan etc, The ford excursions I used for 4-1/2 years had a 6L TDI, weighed in at 6 tonnes all up with men-firearms and equipment and they still did over 100 MPH too, so training to use them properly-In anger if you like was a necessity on a regular basis. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 6 tonnes at over a 100mph must be interesting to stop quickly in a controlled manner...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Barry they stopped very well- 6 pot callipers on the front with vented brake disc's and unfortunately we had to get the callipers-discs and pads changed every 30 days as the heat generated from the continual heavy braking caused the pistons to "crumble" for a better word, they also changed the brake fluid at the same time too John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozsug Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 Barry they stopped very well- 6 pot callipers on the front with vented brake disc's and unfortunately we had to get the callipers-discs and pads changed every 30 days as the heat generated from the continual heavy braking caused the pistons to "crumble" for a better word, they also changed the brake fluid at the same time too John Thats probably what the boot full of spares is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 That's an impressively short brake life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Yes it's a very short brake life,when you've got the threat of losing your's and the clients live's when you're in a place like northern Iraq then you tended to drive round most of the time like you stole them-we had to be very aggressive at times when we were travelling around up there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Ross, It was the weight of the vehicle I was on about mate, you could drive one on a UK road with your car license as it is for all intents and purposes a car-It's just armoured thats all and as someone has already pointed out "The kind of places where you'd drive it isn't the kind of place where the police are too bothered about driving licence categories" But a decent amount of training would be needed to be able to use the vehicle as a weapon If necessary and also a few other driving techniques for hostile environments such as Iraq/Afghanistan etc, The ford excursions I used for 4-1/2 years had a 6L TDI, weighed in at 6 tonnes all up with men-firearms and equipment and they still did over 100 MPH too, so training to use them properly-In anger if you like was a necessity on a regular basis. John I was on about the weight too John, I passed my test in '08.... so after 1997 which means my license is limited to 3500kgs MAM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 I don't think even with your license situation it would matter about the weight side of things-It is a car after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Cat B entitles me to drive: ' Motor vehicles with a MAM of up to 3,500 kg' from direct.gov.uk/motoring/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoltan Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Barry they stopped very well- 6 pot callipers on the front with vented brake disc's and unfortunately we had to get the callipers-discs and pads changed every 30 days as the heat generated from the continual heavy braking caused the pistons to "crumble" for a better word, they also changed the brake fluid at the same time too John Did you mean pads to crumble? If not what were they making the pistons out of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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