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Article: Range Rover difficult to top as luxurious off-road vehicle
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 20, 1988
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Iwas standing in muddy Wellington boots early this year in front
of Major Hervey-Bathurst's castle in England after finishing a
rugged, off-road driving course in the Range Rover sport/utility
vehicle on his estate.
I had been quite impressed with the Range Rover. Despite its
British upper-crust nature, it had resolutely moved along in high,
muddy ruts that looked as if they would bog it down for the better
part of the week.
It also could be driven at seemingly impossible angles on sides
of steep hills.
It was there I decided the hot-selling Range Rover is not for
someone who knows the price of everything . . . and the value of
nothing. It is silly to compare this upper-crust, ...