A Wealth of Affordable 4x4 ; Buying Into a Used Land Rover Used to Be Quite Expensive, Until the Arrival of the 'Ordinary' Freelander Line-Up, Although Iain Robertson Still Believes in a Cautious Approach to Buying One

Lincolnshire Echo › October 16, 2009

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The entire 4x4 scene is under the cosh at the moment, held by a government that is so clearly anti-car in its outlook. Monitoring the sudden drop in SUV values has been one of the more fascinating, if unfortunate, elements of used car scene-watching of the past few years and not even the might of Land Rover can escape this downturn.

Naturally, your reaction to the economic crunch all depends on your personal and perhaps broader view of the entire argument. Yet, one aspect is abundantly clear. Fuel prices are not going to reduce by any great amount at any time in the future and it is the operating costs of an SUV that will stymie any forward consumer interest in the 4x4 sector. Pity then the other side of the coin, the person needing a 4x4 for access to outlying land or for work purposes.

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A Wealth of Affordable 4x4 ; Buying Into a Used Land Rover Used to Be Quite Expensive, Until the Arrival of the 'Ordinary' Freelander Line-Up, Although Iain Robertson Still Believes in a Cautious Approach to Buying One

Fashion has played its part in making the SUV a desirable prospect and, as the market spread occurred, over the past 15 years, it took a back seat as the ...

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