@@nicolasarias4967this Range Rover is still Clarckson’s daily driver. He recently did a video on Harry’s Garage about it because Harry has the same model as his daily driver. Your comment has hilariously bad timing.
@@lookoutforchrisit’s not this one that’s his daily. He’s got a 57 plate one. The one in this video is off the road since 2021 and with 207,889 miles on the clock.
@@lookoutforchrisbecause Clarkson drives a similar model, doesn’t suddenly mean it does look good. Some people think it does and some people think it doesn’t. No one single person has an opinion that can be considered above others
@@niyazmather I put a recondition gearbox in it 86,000 miles and it’s still going strong other than that nothing major just normal maintenance and small bits going on here and there , I can honestly say the gearbox is the most expensive thing I’ve spent on the car I’ve been told I was very lucky I got a good one some cars are nothing but trouble ,I think its because I use the car every day for 5 to 6 hours going from one place to the other for work that it just keeps going and going , when I drive to Spain each year I can honestly say the car feels completely different after I burn all the excess crap out of the system as smooth as anything after my trip every year
@@laurencefahey2085 gearboxes had always been expensive, even for small cars. But, it's surprising to know your RR is still running after you put all that mileage.
Looks like I jinx it , today I noticed the rear footwell was soaked with rain water 💦, think it has come in through the rear door , I will have to get new rubbers for the doors now I think
What an awesome piece of top gear. I absolutely love Clarkson. He's just soooo good at talking about awesome cars. Makes my heart skip a beat watching the old range rover L322.
Just MOT checked the Range Rover in this and it is still going strong... on 207,000 miles! Legend. Land Cruiser off the road since 2016, only made it to 90,000 odd miles, BMX X5 off the road in 2007, only managed in the region of 45,500 miles. Jeep Grand Cherokee, off the road since 2009 at only 39,000 miles! So not only is the Range Rover more reliable by a hell of a distance, it actually represents the best value for money four by four there is.
@@Drasky-yh6bk I am not sure, it may still belong to Mr Clarkson and be stuffed in a shed somewhere. It may have been sold, written off, exported. Just not on the road legally in the UK since 2016.
My 2004 is going strong at 190k with only the main expense being a new gearbox at 138k. All the other issues in my 10 years ownership have been easy to fix myself and affordable. The key is to avoid main dealers for the work as you will be well and truly ripped off. The L322 is very easy to work on if you are handy with some basic tools, and it shares many parts with BMWs so sourcing used or new bits and bobs is easy.
@@iosifd2409 True. But I think this one might've been exported abroad rather than scrapped. That's what happens many old Toyotas from the UK - they end up in Africa or Southeast Asia after 20 yrs or so.
Yep mine has 235k on the clock all done by me and still going strong, on my 3rd gearbox, I change the oil in the gearbox each year as it doubles it’s life span
What was wrong with your gearboxes? I'm still on my original gearbox in my Discovery 3 at 250k miles, though did have a new torque convertor around 160k@@laurencefahey3132
@@chrisd4642 nothing wrong with them as such , I didn’t change the oil in my first one as Land Rover claimed it doesn’t require changing, 86k later it gave in , second gearbox done done 140k as I then changed the gearbox oil every year , then that gave up , so just put in my 3rd so hopefully that will do the same as the second box . It’s a known weakness in the L322
@@gto4609 buying any cheap vehicle is going to be hit or miss. know way of knowing the life any of those three vehicles lived before the trio got their hands on them.
The fact that Clarkson still drives one of these to this day is a testament to its design and capability. Excellent vehicles. As an American though, I couldn’t justify buying and driving one
As someone who worked for Land Rover for decades, it was quite honestly BMWs intervention and saving of the company and creation of the L322 which saved the company and made it an overnight sensation after 57 years!! (in the United States anyway)
Interesting seeing this 19 years later - given the issues I had with the Range Rover the assurance of reliability were not worth much. I can attest they have now finally improved.
Interesting my cousin works as i guess a service manager or whatever. Point is he oversees all the servicing at jag/landrover/bentley and said theyre hunks of shit. I asked him about the older bmw engined ones and he said ya those are the best...ill take his word considering he works on them 😜
i bought one of these in Oct 2020. its a 2002 vogue 4.4 v8 petrol. Id driven old diesels for the last decade and this proper petrol v8 was so smooth sounded great and l bought it. It looked really amazing inside and out. but certainly its drive is something else. the best drive ever by a long way, the engine is so smooth, the BMW M62, with a 160k on the clock!
I have a 2003 L322 , absolutely fantastic !! I really love it !! Looks classic chic !! With ivoiry leather and dark blue !!! LPG top of it no worries for the petrol seems even better on LPG
The Landcruiser has the last laugh now; both the X5 and Range Rover L322 are some of the most unreliable cars ever produced, not to mention cost to maintain as a result
@@gto4609 I wouldn't call a Toyota Land Cruiser cheap though. More like great value for your money. A Toyota Land Cruiser 70 costs US$ 70,000 in my country. But it will outlast any luxurious Range Rover that is 2x the price.
It's honestly till this day one of the best SUV's on the road, if you can maintain it yourself, it handles turns well, it has a phenomenal turning radius, parking sensors, air suspension (replace front air struts before they go) My 05 is still on original rear air springs, and yes stuff will break for no reason, like modules, but I've converted mine to manual seats, put a switch on the steering column so it doesn't move everytime I get in the car, and installed manual switches for the air suspension. All season 32" tires, It's perfect for offroad.
The only plate that seems to still be registered is the 62 year old land rover and the Range Rover. It looks like the defender had a new engine put it a few years ago but not bad. The Range Rover has over 200,000 miles on the clock.
Bikerboythousand the RR gm5 is more unreliable than the similar one in the X5. Never seen the same damage to the X5. Transfer box or output shaft differences or weight of the vehicle maybe?
It's a little bloated and slab sided these days. But, they truly nailed the design. Such an imposing striking car when it was new, and its design has aged so well.
I have a 2002 (one of the first of these to come off the production line.) It's even the same colour (maybe it IS this car?!?!) So yes, it has the BMW TD6 engine which despite being looked down on since the 3.6/4.4 TDV8 appeared, does the job just fine unless you're a full-on speed merchant (personally I don't need any more penalty points.) Bought mine about 12 yars ago, and yes i'ts had a new gearbox, turbo, front air suspension (both sides,) fuel pump, wiper motor, injector, brake pipe, some interior trim items, and some minor bodywork, but the local dealership tells me it's the best the've seen for the year. It's a joy to drive, it eats Alpine snow covered roads with winter tyres, and it is the better looking than any other Range Rover model, either before or since. I have a clip of mine on my channel, preparing to begin a 1200 mile trip from Latvia to Austria.
I always wondered, whether to buy an offroad car like other farmers. Until now, I resisted that temptation. The tractor pulling the 4x4s out of the mud at 8:15 was a relief for me. I stick to my old Insignia, celebrating my low fuel comsumption and using a tractor, when it gets to real offroad driving.
2020. You can pick up a 2002 range rover for $2000 (if you can find one that's still running.) 2002 Land Cruiser (100 series) you're not getting much change out of $10,000 today. As for hill decent, well, put my 2004 kia sorento in low range, put it in 1st gear, take your foot off the pedals and let the engine compression walk you down hills just as steep as that (seriously my driveway is steeper than that, and it's red clay. I use low range and engine braking to drive down it unless it hasn't rained for a week.)
Hill decent control can brake each wheel separately and it helps keeping the car straight when going down muddy hills. Call me mad but I would much rather have the Range Rover than the Land Cruiser.
That model Grand Cherokee - WJ - is the best looking, the most fun and total comfort all in one of all the GC since the 1st - ZJ. STILL, in 2021 is take it over 95% of modern vehicles.
Clarkson is talking about the Hill decent control as it is rocket technology. In fact the X5 has it aswell. Best off-roader is the land cruiser though.
and then all the BMW bits failed, the foundry finish came off, as did the timing chain. Then along came Ford and they said "I cast out ye BMW Demons" and things were good, well till 2012....
the jeep isnt a bad option. We had one we did a lot of offroading with it, where that x5 wouldn't have made it. It had some problem with the gearbox and the 5 cylinder mervedes engine was great expect the injector. But all in all was great experience.
2nd hand landcruisers are getting ridiculous now. A man down the road from me has his rusty 20 year old, 280k mile Mot failed Amazon advertised for £4399. Parts on them are definitely twice as durable but they are twice as expensive to replace and having owned one in the past I have had that experience. I have now gone for a smaller 200k mk2 crv that i thrash. If it breaks i will buy another. It will still cost less than the last repair i made to my old Amazon.
I love the look and performance of the Range Rover and I still feel like buying one in the nearest future but honestly, the Range Rover is nothing but an endless money pit.
They're not cheap to run, you an mitigate by using independent garages who know Range Rovers but you can't expect to drive a Range Rover and enjoy the same running costs as as other cars. It's about priorities, if you spend 3-4 hours of your life behind the wheel every day it might be worth the extra cost to enjoy it.
"What did you say to me this morning? 'This truck goes anywhere', you said." "It does go anywhere, look, it's come here." lmaoo jeremy always had that humor
Not sure if the top Gear team ever owned a Landcruiser prado or Amazon! Looking at the residuals, a 2002 model of either car is worth 4 times more than a top of the range 'Range Rover' of the same age!
And... you made that up, the dvla said the Land Cruiser aren't registered an stop at 90k km mileage. The Range Rover however still registered on the road till this day at 240k km mileage.
I had one they do use industrial parts but they still go wrong and are extremely expensive to repair. Most are 20 years old now so expect rust at least one bad owner and a asking price I don't think makes sence.
I find it amusing that he says the X5 is not a proper off-road car because it doesn't have looking diffs. Neither does the RR Mr Clarkson. They both have traction control. It may partially come down to how smooth and quick the xdrive central diff can react but the tyres fitted are the overwhelming difference between the two.
@@aboodmki3 all land rovers have open axle diffs. Defenders, early discos and early range rovers only had a locking central diff on the transfer box. Axles remain open. Range rovers in the early 90s I think moved to a central viscous couple. Therefore having no difflocks at all. To be honest a viscous coupling is a great option, works just as well as a locking diff without the drawbacks. Only issue with it is limited lifespan. The way they get round having open axles is to rely on traction control from the 90s onwards. I've always felt they shouldn't have compromised on the locking diff side of things.
@@richardschofield2201 funny my l322 2012 has locking centre diff like all l322 as well as the optional rear locking diff fitted at the factory where do you get your info that the range rover only uses traction control because its wrong
@@craigleach2952 out of date info would be my source. L322 in this video doesn't have locking diffs so my initial comment is correct. Second comment however: Lockers were introduced in 2007 on the L322 apparently.
People who bought a car in that era and now thinking of selling to buy a new electric have really won the market. Nothing really changed worth mentioning since then until about now.
@@kristoffscuba5466 well yeah if you are in the high end market. Normal cars were getting incremental upgrades but nothing game changing. Some high end cars were kinda ruined for some palates with over-techfying, electric steering and weirder engines, yes
Ive driven quite a few range rovers on the site of an old ww2 fort in belgium . It was a promotional day for range rover . & by god i want one so bad . The vogue the velar . Both eccelent cars . & even their cheapest offering the little evogue . All their cars have the capability to do quite some offroading :) .
The x5 is a city suv and the range rover? Well kim kardashian has like 5 of them so there's that. I completely disagree with the landcruiser being chinsy. If anything, it's the range rover. You never seen them off road, whereas the land cruiser has become the most popular suv for off roading in and has held its value. And it doesn't have the stupid limp mode where it lowers its suspension so you can't even get out of the swamp if it becomes damaged.
Great video! The heater inconsequential my of course, is a diesel heater. This is arguably the best Rangie ever made, and ( God help me) the land cruiser SUV VX models except, possibly, the 80 series SUV. Kitted of course, with the standard skinny knobblies and decent hard bush protection. I live and work in Kwazulu Natal in the bush and drive the subcontinent in my work on rivers and large sugar estates and mines. Out of all these vehicles mentioned I would go for an L322 4.4 v8 first, second a Toyota product. What do I use over the worst terrain possible mixed with long highway drives? A humble Mahindra s6 Karoo edition 4x4 double cab with Monroe shocks, Terrafirma rt tyres and nothing else. I am fitting Camil shocks, steel full face replacement bumpers with winch and bar light, and 2x 90l fridge freezers off solar. I still prefer a 320 mm thread canvas chopper tent and military canvas 6x3m tarp for camping and long range fuel tanks of course. Trailers are a no no thanks to personal painful experience reversing from charging pachyderms which ended in tears. There is no need to r more.
I got several Range Rover’ s l322 2012 I adore it , it’s not soo expensive . If you have some time , also if you can search some parts for it by your own it will cost you less cheaper even in Servise .
Plus 3 gearboxes, the entire wiring harness for the electrical system, all the suspension, & 2 new seats in the front (because their electric motors died). World class quality from England.
I have an L322 and love it, it’s got its problems and everyone loves to bash them but they are great cars. In Lincolnshire we don’t have the best back roads so this is wonderful to have, my wife’s Skoda is knackered after 2 years. YES it costs a lot to run and fix and it currently has an annoying suspension issue 😂
The hilarity and irony of how he jokingly mocka country life and test drives the l322......but now exclusively lives in the countryside,loves it,owns a farm and spends 90 percent of his time working on it,slowly becoming a legit farmer and owns and swears by this very same car in the exact same colour.😂
Monocoque maybe less wobbly, but from experience with the RR Sport also much more expensive for maintenance and repairs, and British cars seem to have much technical issues 😅
It’s funny than after 19 years the only one that could be still alive is the Land Cruiser. Maybe LCruiser doesn’t fit and use not a “green” color as British understand green. But Toyota knows what they do when it comes to finality REALIABILTY…something important when off roading that Land Rover still doesn’t control at all!
Ironic. The fact is the Range Rover l322 and the Series 2a still registered till this day while the Land Cruiser stopped at 90k km mileage. Plus Jay 25s and 40s had been using green color since the late 50s. I think that proven yourself as non cultured car person.
Watching this after seeing Clarksons Farm, with a 2007 model.
He became everything he ridiculed here. But still, JC's farm is a great show!
Pretty sure he brought that new and its just stayed
@@willpickman2763 Yes. He kept it despite buying the newer model too.
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@trainman655 - Jeremy bought the new model too, he drives both.
Funny thing is that old Defender would be worth more than the X5 today
Series not defender
Which X5? The BMW or the Range Rover 🤣
(This series of Range Rover was based off the X5)
@@Cust0mBuilder Erm.......What?
@@Cust0mBuilder no
If you can find one of those x5s still around
Almost 20 years and this still looks great.
Inside the junk yard but looks good😅😂😂😂
Totally agree!
@@nicolasarias4967this Range Rover is still Clarckson’s daily driver. He recently did a video on Harry’s Garage about it because Harry has the same model as his daily driver. Your comment has hilariously bad timing.
@@lookoutforchrisit’s not this one that’s his daily. He’s got a 57 plate one. The one in this video is off the road since 2021 and with 207,889 miles on the clock.
@@lookoutforchrisbecause Clarkson drives a similar model, doesn’t suddenly mean it does look good. Some people think it does and some people think it doesn’t. No one single person has an opinion that can be considered above others
If only it were reliable, because this is one of the most tasteful looking cars ever made. Period.
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With an BMW engine ☺️
@JOSE ADAME With the BMW diesel, of yes best Choice that Engine will Outlive US all
@JOSE ADAME 2 major problems in 5-6 months is quite a lot...
@@idreeskhan8885 air suspension fault isn't a major problem bro 😁
James May has lost weight.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ikr. James has lost a 100kg
That isn't James may.
@@jorainina8890 That would be the point of my joke, yes.
@@jorainina8890 no shit mate
My 2002 Range Rover is still going strong , I bought from new 210,000 miles all done by me and I love it , drive it to Spain every year 😍
Nice... how much you spent on repairs till now?
@@niyazmather I put a recondition gearbox in it 86,000 miles and it’s still going strong other than that nothing major just normal maintenance and small bits going on here and there , I can honestly say the gearbox is the most expensive thing I’ve spent on the car I’ve been told I was very lucky I got a good one some cars are nothing but trouble ,I think its because I use the car every day for 5 to 6 hours going from one place to the other for work that it just keeps going and going , when I drive to Spain each year I can honestly say the car feels completely different after I burn all the excess crap out of the system as smooth as anything after my trip every year
@@laurencefahey2085 gearboxes had always been expensive, even for small cars. But, it's surprising to know your RR is still running after you put all that mileage.
Looks like I jinx it , today I noticed the rear footwell was soaked with rain water 💦, think it has come in through the rear door , I will have to get new rubbers for the doors now I think
@@laurencefahey2085 it's old, sun roof drains will clog.
What an awesome piece of top gear. I absolutely love Clarkson. He's just soooo good at talking about awesome cars. Makes my heart skip a beat watching the old range rover L322.
Back when it was a car show……before Clarkson turned it into three boys being stupid.
I've just bought a secondhand l322 03 plate 4.4 v8. Thirsty but what a car to drive. I love it.
Just MOT checked the Range Rover in this and it is still going strong... on 207,000 miles! Legend. Land Cruiser off the road since 2016, only made it to 90,000 odd miles, BMX X5 off the road in 2007, only managed in the region of 45,500 miles. Jeep Grand Cherokee, off the road since 2009 at only 39,000 miles! So not only is the Range Rover more reliable by a hell of a distance, it actually represents the best value for money four by four there is.
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Wut happened to the land cruiser?
@@Drasky-yh6bk probably in Africa
@@Drasky-yh6bk I am not sure, it may still belong to Mr Clarkson and be stuffed in a shed somewhere. It may have been sold, written off, exported. Just not on the road legally in the UK since 2016.
My 2004 is going strong at 190k with only the main expense being a new gearbox at 138k. All the other issues in my 10 years ownership have been easy to fix myself and affordable. The key is to avoid main dealers for the work as you will be well and truly ripped off. The L322 is very easy to work on if you are handy with some basic tools, and it shares many parts with BMWs so sourcing used or new bits and bobs is easy.
Fun fact: the Landcruiser in this clip most probably is still working like new!
and certainly not worth 30 quid
@@LR_84 Land Cruisers , and even in general the Toyotas are keeping their values really well because of proven reliability
Just did an road tax check of it - that particular Land Cruiser hasn't been on the road since 2016
@@shaumikhaque1443 Now it depends a lot by the owners
@@iosifd2409 True. But I think this one might've been exported abroad rather than scrapped. That's what happens many old Toyotas from the UK - they end up in Africa or Southeast Asia after 20 yrs or so.
That range rover looks to be still going strong. Passed last years MOT with just over 200k on the clock.
Remarkable.
Excelent job.
Yep mine has 235k on the clock all done by me and still going strong, on my 3rd gearbox, I change the oil in the gearbox each year as it doubles it’s life span
What was wrong with your gearboxes? I'm still on my original gearbox in my Discovery 3 at 250k miles, though did have a new torque convertor around 160k@@laurencefahey3132
@@chrisd4642 nothing wrong with them as such , I didn’t change the oil in my first one as Land Rover claimed it doesn’t require changing, 86k later it gave in , second gearbox done done 140k as I then changed the gearbox oil every year , then that gave up , so just put in my 3rd so hopefully that will do the same as the second box . It’s a known weakness in the L322
its an old saying that the range rover will get you no doubt wherever you want to go, but if you want to get back home get a land cruiser.
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@@gto4609 buying any cheap vehicle is going to be hit or miss. know way of knowing the life any of those three vehicles lived before the trio got their hands on them.
@@gto4609 #scripted
Fake narrative, theres no such saying otherwise just a hate comment.
The fact that Clarkson still drives one of these to this day is a testament to its design and capability. Excellent vehicles. As an American though, I couldn’t justify buying and driving one
Patriotism won again huh lol
Why can‘t you justify it? Would the eagle be sad or would your neighbours shoot you?
Yet you americans justify driving arround in a boorish and stupid pickup truck… 😂😂😂
Because parts and service are charged at a premium here in the states@@realtoverland
@@shenton18 🦅🦅🦅
I used to make the front and rear subframes for the L322
The best Range Rover so far.. it was the modernized version of the original.
As someone who worked for Land Rover for decades, it was quite honestly BMWs intervention and saving of the company and creation of the L322 which saved the company and made it an overnight sensation after 57 years!! (in the United States anyway)
Ironic considering that the BMW suv failed in the episode
Interesting seeing this 19 years later - given the issues I had with the Range Rover the assurance of reliability were not worth much. I can attest they have now finally improved.
Interesting my cousin works as i guess a service manager or whatever. Point is he oversees all the servicing at jag/landrover/bentley and said theyre hunks of shit. I asked him about the older bmw engined ones and he said ya those are the best...ill take his word considering he works on them 😜
@@stefanfreestylez Even the 4.4 V8?
@@djyems1021 v8 trash. Best to go for is diesel 3.0 👍
@@stefanfreestylez 4.4, 4.2 Jag motors were both very good engines. 5.0 Jag was good too but those had a few issues in the 5.0’s early year.
@@stefanfreestylezplenty 4.4 V8 on 150k + miles still going strong. 3.0d couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding and nearly as bad on fuel as the V8
i bought one of these in Oct 2020. its a 2002 vogue 4.4 v8 petrol. Id driven old diesels for the last decade and this proper petrol v8 was so smooth sounded great and l bought it. It looked really amazing inside and out. but certainly its drive is something else. the best drive ever by a long way, the engine is so smooth, the BMW M62, with a 160k on the clock!
I have a 2003 L322 , absolutely fantastic !! I really love it !! Looks classic chic !! With ivoiry leather and dark blue !!! LPG top of it no worries for the petrol seems even better on LPG
Same here brilliant vehicle
Some say, Clarkson is still driving the Range Rover on his farm which Land Rover lent him for 6 months back in 2002.
No, he drives the 2007 model.
What I love is that you know all those blokes were drunk out shooting and mudding and operating heavy equipment. lol Good times
The Landcruiser has the last laugh now; both the X5 and Range Rover L322 are some of the most unreliable cars ever produced, not to mention cost to maintain as a result
Not to mention old Land Cruisers are increasing in value instead of decreasing....
Yep if you can’t afford a bmw or a Range Rover it’s definitely better if you settle down for a cheap toyota
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@@gto4609 I wouldn't call a Toyota Land Cruiser cheap though. More like great value for your money. A Toyota Land Cruiser 70 costs US$ 70,000 in my country. But it will outlast any luxurious Range Rover that is 2x the price.
VW Touareg was the best Off road car at that time !
The rangie has a valid MOT till September 2021 and has done over 207,000 miles!
Also interesting to note it has a good MOT record, very few fails on the MOT and usually just wear and tear bits, nothing major
It's honestly till this day one of the best SUV's on the road, if you can maintain it yourself, it handles turns well, it has a phenomenal turning radius, parking sensors, air suspension (replace front air struts before they go) My 05 is still on original rear air springs, and yes stuff will break for no reason, like modules, but I've converted mine to manual seats, put a switch on the steering column so it doesn't move everytime I get in the car, and installed manual switches for the air suspension. All season 32" tires, It's perfect for offroad.
The only plate that seems to still be registered is the 62 year old land rover and the Range Rover. It looks like the defender had a new engine put it a few years ago but not bad.
The Range Rover has over 200,000 miles on the clock.
Well its still going strong on 200k+ miles.
Unlike the x5
David Lang funnily enough that Range Rover and the X5 Of the same year share the same engines and platform
BTCC true! Worked on them both in my time and the X5 has a stronger gearbox
@@themuseicman and which gearbox is that then?
Bikerboythousand the RR gm5 is more unreliable than the similar one in the X5. Never seen the same damage to the X5. Transfer box or output shaft differences or weight of the vehicle maybe?
The L322 is still in service today with tax and MOT.
I wonder if the owner knows he has the Top Gear Range Rover
Narrow tyres are the winner every time. That's the secret of the old LR ability
And the fact that the series LR is nearly 1.5 tons lighter. Skinny tyres on a heavy vehicle will = sinking
Not at all, different situations require different tires.
It's a little bloated and slab sided these days. But, they truly nailed the design. Such an imposing striking car when it was new, and its design has aged so well.
I have a 2002 (one of the first of these to come off the production line.) It's even the same colour (maybe it IS this car?!?!) So yes, it has the BMW TD6 engine which despite being looked down on since the 3.6/4.4 TDV8 appeared, does the job just fine unless you're a full-on speed merchant (personally I don't need any more penalty points.) Bought mine about 12 yars ago, and yes i'ts had a new gearbox, turbo, front air suspension (both sides,) fuel pump, wiper motor, injector, brake pipe, some interior trim items, and some minor bodywork, but the local dealership tells me it's the best the've seen for the year. It's a joy to drive, it eats Alpine snow covered roads with winter tyres, and it is the better looking than any other Range Rover model, either before or since. I have a clip of mine on my channel, preparing to begin a 1200 mile trip from Latvia to Austria.
Its still on the road. Still taxed, insured and MOTd in June 2021
The Range Rover? What???
I miss the old Top Gear! Very nostalgic feeling watching this, man we had some good TV.
I always wondered, whether to buy an offroad car like other farmers. Until now, I resisted that temptation. The tractor pulling the 4x4s out of the mud at 8:15 was a relief for me. I stick to my old Insignia, celebrating my low fuel comsumption and using a tractor, when it gets to real offroad driving.
I have just bought a 2004 4.4 v8 petrol one. I love it
Still own a 2005 from new and it's a keep ... The L322 is Timeless
When was the last time it ran? A decade ago?
@@Dranreb865 it's a garden ornament.
Now looking back a this Range Rover from 2002 it’s now a car that u would see just driving around out there
2020. You can pick up a 2002 range rover for $2000 (if you can find one that's still running.)
2002 Land Cruiser (100 series) you're not getting much change out of $10,000 today.
As for hill decent, well, put my 2004 kia sorento in low range, put it in 1st gear, take your foot off the pedals and let the engine compression walk you down hills just as steep as that (seriously my driveway is steeper than that, and it's red clay. I use low range and engine braking to drive down it unless it hasn't rained for a week.)
2002 land cruiser is the 100 series (105 outside North America), not the 80 series.
Hill decent control can brake each wheel separately and it helps keeping the car straight when going down muddy hills.
Call me mad but I would much rather have the Range Rover than the Land Cruiser.
Lovely to see this episode (or this par tof) thank you for the upload.
That model Grand Cherokee - WJ - is the best looking, the most fun and total comfort all in one of all the GC since the 1st - ZJ. STILL, in 2021 is take it over 95% of modern vehicles.
Clarkson is talking about the Hill decent control as it is rocket technology. In fact the X5 has it aswell. Best off-roader is the land cruiser though.
Such a retro design 😍
and then all the BMW bits failed, the foundry finish came off, as did the timing chain. Then along came Ford and they said "I cast out ye BMW Demons" and things were good, well till 2012....
Clearly, this was filmed before Jeremy got pregnant.
the jeep isnt a bad option. We had one we did a lot of offroading with it, where that x5 wouldn't have made it. It had some problem with the gearbox and the 5 cylinder mervedes engine was great expect the injector. But all in all was great experience.
I've been looking for this video for years!!!
Long Live L322!
2nd hand landcruisers are getting ridiculous now. A man down the road from me has his rusty 20 year old, 280k mile Mot failed Amazon advertised for £4399. Parts on them are definitely twice as durable but they are twice as expensive to replace and having owned one in the past I have had that experience. I have now gone for a smaller 200k mk2 crv that i thrash. If it breaks i will buy another. It will still cost less than the last repair i made to my old Amazon.
The price of parts and rust makes me wonder why they're so highly rated. Personally I think they're the most overrated vehicle in the world
The L322 was epic. I sold my ‘07 Supercharged with 335,000 miles on it- still running great!
I love the look and performance of the Range Rover and I still feel like buying one in the nearest future but honestly, the Range Rover is nothing but an endless money pit.
They're not cheap to run, you an mitigate by using independent garages who know Range Rovers but you can't expect to drive a Range Rover and enjoy the same running costs as as other cars. It's about priorities, if you spend 3-4 hours of your life behind the wheel every day it might be worth the extra cost to enjoy it.
Ignore this other person; get a Lexus or LandCruiser! Range Rovers are for imbeciles.
20 years later that green td6 is SORN as of 2020 with 207k on the clock. Looking forward to getting one after waiting the obligatory time period 😂
L322 and J100 are unbeatable. Wish L322 was more reliable... Still looks stunning.
That end music gave me the chills
"What did you say to me this morning? 'This truck goes anywhere', you said."
"It does go anywhere, look, it's come here."
lmaoo jeremy always had that humor
these look better now than the facelift ones.
The old Land Rover only took the trophy because it was THE ONLY car with proper tires for surface
The Jeep never got stuck. They will never admit it
Jeez just admit that land rovers are better off-roaders already
@@pockettwizzard7175 yeah, tell the delusional LR owners whatever will help them sleep at night!
@@Simone-Bucnbeen sleeping just fine for the 2 years
yep it's his off the farm show. same reg
Clarkson's daily driver in 2023...
Not sure if the top Gear team ever owned a Landcruiser prado or Amazon! Looking at the residuals, a 2002 model of either car is worth 4 times more than a top of the range 'Range Rover' of the same age!
Pretty sure Clarkson owned both 80 and 100 series land cruisers at some point
This is the best example of British mentality I have ever seen . Period.
i’m pretty sure that land cruiser is still working and has a high value
Doubt it considering they rust like ladas. Horrendous corrosion issues with them sadly
And... you made that up, the dvla said the Land Cruiser aren't registered an stop at 90k km mileage. The Range Rover however still registered on the road till this day at 240k km mileage.
I love how the audience are just trolling Jeremy
The Land Cruiser is still working well to this day with minimum maintenance and plenty of cheap parts.
Not according to the dvla who have listed as off the road. While the rr here is still running strong.
I had one they do use industrial parts but they still go wrong and are extremely expensive to repair. Most are 20 years old now so expect rust at least one bad owner and a asking price I don't think makes sence.
I find it amusing that he says the X5 is not a proper off-road car because it doesn't have looking diffs.
Neither does the RR Mr Clarkson.
They both have traction control.
It may partially come down to how smooth and quick the xdrive central diff can react but the tyres fitted are the overwhelming difference between the two.
OMG is this for real?! 🤯
Are all LR322s without locking-differentials?
@@aboodmki3 all land rovers have open axle diffs. Defenders, early discos and early range rovers only had a locking central diff on the transfer box.
Axles remain open.
Range rovers in the early 90s I think moved to a central viscous couple.
Therefore having no difflocks at all.
To be honest a viscous coupling is a great option, works just as well as a locking diff without the drawbacks. Only issue with it is limited lifespan.
The way they get round having open axles is to rely on traction control from the 90s onwards.
I've always felt they shouldn't have compromised on the locking diff side of things.
@@richardschofield2201 funny my l322 2012 has locking centre diff like all l322 as well as the optional rear locking diff fitted at the factory where do you get your info that the range rover only uses traction control because its wrong
@@craigleach2952 out of date info would be my source.
L322 in this video doesn't have locking diffs so my initial comment is correct.
Second comment however:
Lockers were introduced in 2007 on the L322 apparently.
People who bought a car in that era and now thinking of selling to buy a new electric have really won the market. Nothing really changed worth mentioning since then until about now.
Agreed, it could even be argued they got worse from this point until now, due to all the emissions addons causing problems and reducing power.
@@kristoffscuba5466 well yeah if you are in the high end market. Normal cars were getting incremental upgrades but nothing game changing. Some high end cars were kinda ruined for some palates with over-techfying, electric steering and weirder engines, yes
A luxury classic 20 years later.
Ive driven quite a few range rovers on the site of an old ww2 fort in belgium . It was a promotional day for range rover . & by god i want one so bad . The vogue the velar . Both eccelent cars . & even their cheapest offering the little evogue . All their cars have the capability to do quite some offroading :) .
Sorry.. you can have the best 4x4 system in the world..but if you put the wrong tires on it and it will be confused by wet grass.
Beautiful car 🇬🇧👍
It’s a shame they can’t make Land Rover reliable
They are worst then KiA when it comes to reliability
That series 2 Landrover is still going probably
The x5 is a city suv and the range rover? Well kim kardashian has like 5 of them so there's that.
I completely disagree with the landcruiser being chinsy. If anything, it's the range rover. You never seen them off road, whereas the land cruiser has become the most popular suv for off roading in and has held its value. And it doesn't have the stupid limp mode where it lowers its suspension so you can't even get out of the swamp if it becomes damaged.
I sort of agree, but theres just something about.... The Range Rover!
10:30 richard is correct on the transmission the L322 did it alright and costly
Great video! The heater inconsequential my of course, is a diesel heater. This is arguably the best Rangie ever made, and ( God help me) the land cruiser SUV VX models except, possibly, the 80 series SUV. Kitted of course, with the standard skinny knobblies and decent hard bush protection. I live and work in Kwazulu Natal in the bush and drive the subcontinent in my work on rivers and large sugar estates and mines. Out of all these vehicles mentioned I would go for an L322 4.4 v8 first, second a Toyota product. What do I use over the worst terrain possible mixed with long highway drives? A humble Mahindra s6 Karoo edition 4x4 double cab with Monroe shocks, Terrafirma rt tyres and nothing else. I am fitting Camil shocks, steel full face replacement bumpers with winch and bar light, and 2x 90l fridge freezers off solar. I still prefer a 320 mm thread canvas chopper tent and military canvas 6x3m tarp for camping and long range fuel tanks of course. Trailers are a no no thanks to personal painful experience reversing from charging pachyderms which ended in tears. There is no need to r more.
I love my l322
I got several Range Rover’ s l322 2012
I adore it , it’s not soo expensive .
If you have some time , also if you can search some parts for it by your own it will cost you less cheaper even in Servise .
too bad you got the ugly looking facelift models
The Land Rover already has 5 engines replaced 😂😂😂
Yeah, nice joke
Plus 3 gearboxes, the entire wiring harness for the electrical system, all the suspension, & 2 new seats in the front (because their electric motors died). World class quality from England.
When Jeremy puts full effort into a film
To be fair all the cars tested there would have done far better with the correct tyres fitted. On road tyres are not designed for a muddy field.
That particular RR is still taxed and MOTed with the same owner from 2013
So the Range Rover fits the countryside and the Land Cruiser, which is equipped with just about the same off-road bits, doesn't. Nonsense.
"ItZ dA wRoNg ShAyDe oV GrEeEeEn..." - Jeremy Biased Clarkson.
this car lasted till 2021 and 207k miles impressive
love the l322 till my full landrover engine blew up
it's a British brand on a British TV show off course it's gonna be the best
the greatest off roader
Jeremy : car of the year is Range Rover !
live crowd : oh no
Loved this
FANTASTIC! Jolly Good!
now if it would just make it home after collecting it from the W-Shop!
why is the evoque silhouette bigger than other models in your intro? is it supposed to be the smallest?
Aged like fine wine. Now the range rover is old an knackered and people use them to offroad
The days when top gear was a great program 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
I have an L322 and love it, it’s got its problems and everyone loves to bash them but they are great cars.
In Lincolnshire we don’t have the best back roads so this is wonderful to have, my wife’s Skoda is knackered after 2 years.
YES it costs a lot to run and fix and it currently has an annoying suspension issue 😂
The hilarity and irony of how he jokingly mocka country life and test drives the l322......but now exclusively lives in the countryside,loves it,owns a farm and spends 90 percent of his time working on it,slowly becoming a legit farmer and owns and swears by this very same car in the exact same colour.😂
for a premium of 20k I can get next to a normal car for everyday another Lada Niva and get some rust protection as well and have a real offroader
Now that x5 worth 200 pounds and that defender 50K
X5 on road tyres gets stuck. How odd. It’s almost like you always need the right tyres!!! 🤦🏻♂️
Monocoque maybe less wobbly, but from experience with the RR Sport also much more expensive for maintenance and repairs, and British cars seem to have much technical issues 😅
Thumbnail looks like something from the mid 2000s Top Gear.
It’s funny than after 19 years the only one that could be still alive is the Land Cruiser. Maybe LCruiser doesn’t fit and use not a “green” color as British understand green. But Toyota knows what they do when it comes to finality REALIABILTY…something important when off roading that Land Rover still doesn’t control at all!
IIRC, Land Rover used to dominate Australian markets until Toyota came along with the Land Cruiser.
The Aussies loved them then, still do to this day.
Ironic. The fact is the Range Rover l322 and the Series 2a still registered till this day while the Land Cruiser stopped at 90k km mileage.
Plus Jay 25s and 40s had been using green color since the late 50s.
I think that proven yourself as non cultured car person.
the x5 last mot 2007, jeep 2008, the range rovers runs out november 2021, and the toyota....not found....