Growing old disgracefully, hey Rory? Good for you.
I drove the Cayenne RS around Milbrook’s high speed bowl at 200mph and was frankly terrified. It wasn’t so much the speed as the height at which I was sitting while doing the speed. It’s an impressive bit of engineering in terms of handling but I don’t really like it.
The Audi Q7 looks great but there’s bugger-all room inside.
So that gets us to the Range Rover Sport and the BMW X5. 2006-year 4.2 litre Sports start at around £28,000, while an equivalent M5 will be more like £20-22,000. So that’s the kind of depreciation you will suffer if you buy new.
You would need to like the Range Rover an awful lot to pay a premium like that. Although 8 weeks ago it was up in the early £30,000s, so you could argue that you are quids in anyway. It turns out, the credit crunch isn’t all bad.