Welcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube, and this is my wife's 2017 land rover range rover, supercharged long wheelbase, and we bought it almost exactly one year ago now my daily driver is a 1994 chevrolet, suburban, alternating with a 2003 mercedes g55. With 230 000 miles, but my wife needs something nice, something that won't leave her on the side of the road. So i thought well range rover now i know range rover doesn't have the best reputation for reliability, but this thing's fairly new 2017. It only had 37 or 38 000 miles when we bought it, and i bought it with a full bumper to bumper warranty, covering this thing until 2024 and something like 100 000 miles and in this first year of ownership.

Even though this thing is pretty new, it did get well used in the first year of ownership, so today we are going to document the one-year ownership experience of this range rover. What we like about it, what we don't like about it, what broke and the most ridiculous part of owning this range rover, really it is so ridiculous. I never imagined buying this car and being in the position that i'm in there's really no other word for it. Other than ridiculous, but before we dive into the ridiculousness i'd like to thank manscape for sponsoring today's video last month, they sent me this their lawnmower 3.0, among other things, and it's a very effective, delicate tool to use around your delicate tools and this month, they've sent Me another package which i shall open now.

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Don't have the rear leg room of the older mercedes, because when we installed that car seat there was no room in the front passenger seat, you had to put the seat so far forward that your knees were basically in the dash and it was super uncomfortable. So i wanted to overcompensate for that mistake and a long wheelbase range rover is a very, very good way to do that. This extra several inches of room in the rear. Basically, this rear door is much larger, makes the car seat well seem small, it's basically a limousine back here, and that's why i was drawn to it.

I was also drawn to the 510 horsepower supercharged v8 as engines get smaller and turbocharged. This still has an old-school big v8 under the hood, but with all the latest modern technology, and it is an absolutely gorgeous vehicle inside. It's a great mix of old and new as well great old-school, build quality with the materials and the finishes in here, but with the latest modern technology. Now the technology may not be as good as some of its german competition inside.

It is one of my gripes, but the quality overall, the vehicle just in the fit and finish is so much better than really any domestic vehicle being made right now and even most german automakers don't have an interior as nice. As this, you really have to go up to bentley or rolls-royce to get something this nice on the inside and those well have been taken as a 250 000 car and a rolls royce: cullinan's. 450. 500.

000. This is way cheaper than that 130 000 new and i bought it for well half of its msrp yeah. Basically, half of msrp for a three-year-old range rover with 38 000 miles. We've put 12 000 miles on is now at 50 000 miles had one service, and there are a lot of things that i like about this, but a few things that i don't so we'll take it out for a drive now, and i will list all those Things along with what is broken and what has been the really really ridiculous part of owning this range over for the last year.

Oh yeah. I know this is my wife's car, but every chance i get to drive it. I do drive it and it is very nice all the things i talked about that i liked with it uh why we bought it. It continues the comfort, the quality of the interior, it's so nice, the engine, it's just ridiculous there.

It goes ridiculous, ridiculous power, but then there's the ride quality as well. The air suspension was designed primarily for off-roading. You could raise it up and have all different kind of terrains here. If you turn the switches, i've never turned those switches like most people that own these things.

This range rover has never been off-road and it will probably never go off-road. I just like the ride quality of it. It is so so good and it's why i'm really happy with my choice versus say, buying a new defender for the same money. I think a new defender well equipped is around 70 000 and it wouldn't be as good as this.

It doesn't have the same ride. Quality, the comfort in the seats it doesn't have the big 510 horsepower v8 either so you're, giving up a lot for something that looks arguably cooler and has more off-road cred. But uh i mean really. I don't care about that kind of stuff.

I think most people would prefer something like this used. That's not going to depreciate that much or or at all, more more on that in a little bit and have all of these nice comforts. It's it's really really really good. Also kind of surprising is how easy it is to drive this big old school bus.

The turning radius is actually really good and it feels really easy to drive. My wife had a few big suvs before this. She was always curving the wheels and bunking things. Maybe she needed to get used to big suvs, but she hasn't put a single mark in this one, and i think it's also because this thing is just so easy to drive.

There are some things that we definitely don't like, though, and a lot of it has to do with the electronics down here. You really need to be patient if you own one of these cars and want to use a lot of the infotainment things, because when you first started up just when you started up to get going, it takes a while for this knob to present itself and then For it to wake up, so you can turn the knob and put it in gear and then say you want to turn on your heated seats. Well, you have to push this button here and then toggle through the infotainment screen. If it starts up right away, sometimes it resets and takes a long time to start up, but it's always super duper laggy and quite annoying, because between that and turning your heated seats on you're, like waiting 30 seconds before you can set off sometimes that thing's really Feeling slow, it's just kind of annoying.

Another thing you probably saw there when i turned was that sudden surge of acceleration and what happens is when i want to go faster. This thing starts off in second gear. I floor it and there's a massive delay because it's shifting from second to first and then just goes because this thing has so much torque. So passengers are looking at you like what the heck are you doing and it's it's not your fault.

It's the range rover's crummy computer, just kind of trying to figure out what you want and it's it's weird i pulled into the land rover dealership just to look and see really thin inventory right now, not very much out there. Inventory is really thin here, like everywhere else, but the service experience has been very good. So far, let's get into what broke a little side note. I got to point this out.

First, though, that is an s 350 diesel all-wheel drive the last s-class diesel for sale. I looked it up. 28. 000.

That's that's! Really a cool vehicle, but anyway, what broke on this land rover well a year into it just right when i wanted to get it serviced, but it wasn't giving me a service warning about 12 000 miles in a year later. It started leaking coolant and it leaked a lot of coolant. Another thing i was noticing was a slight clunk, so i called to make a service appointment was going through their switchboard. I think in minnesota, or something like that, and they said at first that they couldn't get me in in two weeks, which is silly.

Obviously things looking cool. You need to get it in right now, so, thankfully i have relationships with people who actually work in the physical dealership and they're able to get me right in it's a smart thing and i knew have your service advisor car seat and call them directly not work. A switchboard got the car in it was leaking from a little coolant line that goes around the supercharger. There's a bunch of little ones, not a big deal, an easy fix there and actually there's no parts disruption, unlike a lot of automakers to where they're able to get the part within a few days.

So we weren't out of the car for very long. The suspension clock was due to the middle control arms. This thing has three control arms, because it's a beefy, off-roader and one side looked way worse than the other, which led to a little bit of uneven tire. Wear as well, that was all warranty, except for the tire, unfortunately, i'm still rolling on it, but all that was free.

It's probably going to be about a thousand dollars worth of stuff that broke, so not that bad, not like the doug de maro range rover of back in the day, but still nice to have that warranty until 2024.. We are now at 50 000 miles. So we are out of the factory warranty completely now and reliant on the certified pre-owned warranty. But i do have a few more things in the gripe category before we get back to the garage and talk about the ridiculous part of owning this range rover, and one of them is the service intervals.

Land rover recommends that you service their cars every year or 15 000 miles, and i was told that some vehicles are gon na, have it at two years and like 20 000 miles, which is absolutely absolutely stupid and insane. The reason they do this is to try and save money in the service costs for the customer, which is a nice thing and in consumer reports they look like they're a cheaper car to own long term, but in the long term you don't want to have those Kind of oil change intervals on any vehicle. When i was working at a bmw dealership back in 2007, we had the same service intervals with bmws and it was sludging up the engines. It's the dark ages of bmws, i think, partially, because of those oil change intervals.

I was freaking out when i realized i'd driven this thing, 12 000 miles without an oil change, so i got it in about a month early on the service, and i would already be super apprehensive about buying one of these when they reach hooptie level status. Just because of all the electronics but taking the service intervals on top of that and the sludging up of the engines, i would be really really worried. So i imagine values are going to tank eventually, not now. It's really weird, but eventually another slight annoyance has been with the app.

I have an app where i can remote start this thing and it expired in a year and i needed to renew it and i didn't renew it on the day it expired. So i tried to renew it paid the money and it's still not working in the car. I tried to call to get it activated and uh. The whole time was too long, so i just i gave up.

I probably could get it handled here at the dealership. Really easy, but i've just been lazy, so kind of my fault there, but uh look at all these beautiful hoopties here. There's one thing: my accountant told me: uh i've been talking a lot more to my accountant. Ever since the tax situation that uh, i got myself in with the lamborghini purchases that were paid for with uh, well well tax money.

Basically - and he said one thing i could do to write off. Uh say a car is to lease one and if i leased one brand new that i could write off the lease payments, i'm not really a new car guy doing new car reviews. But what do you think about me? Leasing, something the one that catches my eye is: the tie can and the ti-can turbo turbo s that black one there. The turbo is a 20 20..

I can get that one for over 20 thousand dollars off of its msrp, put it in elise or that new cherry red 2021 turbo s, which is an absolutely beautiful car 2.6. Second, zero to 60., basically the best that electric cars have to offer right now and really uncharted waters, nobody's really driving the heck out of these things and doing product reviews. Oh there's a plane landing right there, but i'm a hooptie man. Now i would really love a new 911, but the salesman.

The dealership tells me that they're getting one that is unsold for the entire year 1 911. Everything else is pre-sold, which is just absolutely crazy. Everything is so crazy right now they said that they'd be completely out of inventory in a month if all of them met their sales quota just because they can't get cars right now, which is really sad and crazy, which actually leads to the ridiculous part of this Video, what has been so ridiculous about this range rover which we'll talk about back in my garage, so some gripes and some issues, but overall the ownership experience of this range rover has been absolutely incredible and now we can get to the ridiculous part. Now, if this ownership experience had not been incredible, i'm in a very, very rare position.

Right now, where i went onto a car lot at a franchise dealer bought a range rover drove it for a year, and now i could sell it for easily more than what i paid for it. So i bought this thing for about 65 000 a year ago and that wasn't the cheapest certified pre-owned range rover in the usa. It was, it was a good deal, but it wasn't the cheapest. It was just a good deal and drove it for a year.

Now. Has 50 000 miles on it, and i decided to look up the wholesale value, the mmr, which is basically mannheim's market resource tool where you scan the vin and it tells you what they sell for at auction and the wholesale value currently of this range rover is 65. 000. That's what few have come to market at auction and they're all looking like they're lower condition report cars that have had accident history prior paint, not as nice as this.

Now, if you look for certified pre-owned 2017 range rovers with around the same miles. Right now: well, they want over 70 thousand dollars for them. If you jump forward a year into 2018, which would be like me buying a car now versus a year ago, the local dealer actually has a 2018 range rover, just like this same specs same miles same cpo, it's 90 thousand dollars. A lot of these are in the higher 70s too.

These 2017s are in the higher 70s for cpo, so chances are. I could list this thing for, like 69 696 nice and sell the car like that, because it still has a warranty until 2024.. I'm not gon na do that, though, because i can't replace it and the reason for this ridiculous situation that i find myself in is a perfect storm when it comes to new and used cars. That is completely disrupting really destroying the car market right now.

Of course, you know what happened last year, the shutdown and everything it really disrupted the supply of new cars, and now that we're coming out of the darkness, hopefully of what was 2020 2021, has tons of demand tons of pent-up money from people wanting luxury items like This and production just can't keep up some automakers well can't produce at all because they quit their suppliers a year ago from supplying things like microchips and now they're ramping up production as much as they can, because they're selling cars before they hit the lots. That's why you look at car lots across the united states right now and they're all parked diagonally to try and fill up as much space as possible. Basically, all the lots are empty and they can't even ramp up production right now. I was reading this article this morning, where it said ford and stellanas.

That's like chrysler jeep fiat. They are out 80 000 vehicles last week. That's the shortage because of microchips. They stopped supplying microchips a year ago and now that well they ran out.

They can't ramp up production fast enough, and these cars fords can't be built because they don't have the microchips to run these very electronically dependent cars. This is what's unbelievable. Forest said last week that chicago and flat rock plants, as well as the f-150 and transit van sides of its kansas city plant, will be down the weeks of may 3rd and 10th as the automaker continues to get pummeled by the semi-conductor crisis. Thirty thousand vehicles from stellanas fourteen thousand seven hundred jeep grand cherokees fifty six hundred dodge durango's and general motors also thinks about forty nine hundred chevrolet express vans.

They won't be able to make as well, so they can't make new cars right now and there's a huge demand for them. So prices on used cars are actually literally higher than new cars. It's absolutely insane. Another thing happening is all the rental car fleets they sold them all off in 2020 because everybody was locked down and now rental car demand is huge and rental car companies are buying up used cars to replenish their stock.

When i was in arizona barrett-jackson, you couldn't get a rental car, a compact car, and i couldn't even get it because it was sold out, was four hundred dollars a day, four hundred dollars a day and you couldn't get an uber either, because most people had just Gotten their stimulus money they were sitting at home. They didn't need the extra money working side gig at uber, so you couldn't get a ride anywhere. It really was crazy. This is the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube.

I don't think of myself as a savvy. Buyer flipping cars for massive profits. I usually lose money and well i'm definitely not an economist to say well. This is hyperinflation and everything's expensive.

Now, look at lumber look at everything i don't really know, but pretty much everything that i own is worth more money and i never intended for that to happen. My ferrari 348, for instance. I bought it for 35 thousand dollars almost two years ago. I imagine even with its high mileage and its weirdness, i could sell it for forty five thousand dollars snap in a second, my mercedes, sls amg is probably a better example, though the cheapest one for sale right now is like a hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

That's like fifty thousand dollars more than what i paid for mine and mine. Is it's not a hooptie? It's 36 000 miles clean history. It's not a hooptie, so i have no idea. What's going on and speaking of hoopties even hoopty prices are absolutely insane.

As a lot of you know, i was a car dealer in a previous life 10 years in the car business. I thought living through cash for clunkers was insane, but i can't imagine being a used car dealer, like my friend urination bob right now. He is having to get very, very creative when it comes to buying cars. Normally he buys six to ten cars a week at auction and in the last two three weeks he's bought exactly zero cars.

I tag along with him at the auctions and the wholesale bidding just just for fun, because i used to love doing that kind of stuff and most recently the craziest one that i can remember is a 2013 bmw x3 that had around 100 000 miles on it. The resale on it thing, kelly blue book, was like 13 000. Well, it sold for 12 dollars and it needed a lot of work. It sold for four thousand dollars more than what bob bid on it.

It's absolutely insane. The good news is when urination bob does get a hold of something he's able to sell it very quickly and if not he's able to sell it at auction for more than what he paid for he's making money selling cars at the wholesale auction. So it's not all bad, but eventually all this inventory is going to dry up just just like houses. Right now, i think in my area, there's like 12 houses in the school district that everybody wants for sale and prices are just skyrocketing going off on a tangent.

Here but basically to summarize this range rover, lovely lovely vehicle, i would recommend owning them under a cpu. Warranty has been a great one year in a really really weird ridiculous year. Thank you for watching.