RANGE ROVER L322

PRICES CS of the third-generation Range Rover (2002 - 12) have been in a freefall for a few years now. Depreciation on luxury cars is high because the sort of people who can afford the eyeeye-watering prices of new oneones aren’t interested in buying secondhand ones. This means they soon fall to within reach of the ordinary buyer who fancies something a bit bigger and brasher than his usual fare. Butbu when things start to go wrong, and he realises how expensive it is fifixx them,th his L322 suffers. After all, you can’t bodge sophisticated top-end modmodern motors — or can you? Dave Barker reckons it’s not as unlikely as it sounds . . . “The L322 is fast becoming the Land Rover of choice for many as prices drop,” he says. “They’re great on and off-road and, yes, they can be run on a budget. There’s a lot of technology, but it doesn’t matter if it faifails as long as you are not bothered about having working TV screens and allall-round cameras, etc. Without them they are still great Land Rovers – a greatg drive and stylish.” Alisdair Cusick says L322s are cheap for a reason: “A good one is very hard to find.find. They are ramp maintenance intensive, and you can expecte years of skimped maintenance.” But he adds: “Conversely, well-maintained ones are superb, momodern cars, but will take time to find.find. The TDV8 is the pick of the bunch,bunch but TD6 models will do galactic mileages if the car is well-maintained.”