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Looks like a right beast doesn't it Defender, to answer your question, I don't think there's any substitute for horsepower & at over 3.5 tonnes you'll be hard pushed to find anything it can't tow but the site I saw it on reckoned 14 to the gallon solo motorway fuel consumption so I don't think I'd have one.

It may not be a problem for you but I'd worry about selling it on after I'd finished with it. Looking at the front of it, I'm sure they do a pick up version as well. if it's the same it's a heck of a machine.

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Not that at that figure it makes much difference, but that's 14mpg at US gallons. I reckon around 18.3mpg UK gallon. Whichever way you look at it, its still an 'ouch!' figure  The pick-up version I believe is called the F250?

Selling on is a consideration. We would either keep it and run it into the ground or sell it in the future and accept the low private sale price. I can't remember what I read from the TfL site re: Low Emission Zone (LEZ) regulations. (I haven't been back to view the vehicle due to the poor weather conditions). I'm not sure if it falls outside the rules and is therefore, by default, allowed into London; or falls foul of the rules in some way. There are more and LEZ's cropping up all over Europe and anecdotally I hear that several English Cities/towns are considering implementing similar schemes.

I don't suppose that the efforts of 4x4 drivers in this country during the current poor weather will cut any mustard with those in power and so the LEZ's will continue to multiply

We recently fell foul of the LEZ when we had two lorries advertised, they were euro 3 & needed to be euro 4 or above so the guys from London who wanted them couldn't buy them. I didn't realise this restricted cars as well as commercial vehicles.

The efforts of the 4x4 owners won't even ripple the surface on the powers that be, considering they were threatening to prosecute farmers who clear snow with their tractors if they use gas oil in them instead of derv, they certainly won't recognise the help given by those who can get around. It makes me wonder what these people are on.

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