Gaurav

Looks like you all have beaten me up to add anything in my trip report. So I let my pictures do the talking, just added in the gallery: https://carnity.com/gallery/category/26-maliha-adventurous-night-drive-6-july-2017/

Guys, enough is enough please don't spoil this thread and forum anymore. Leave the DOHC argument and focus on thread title if you have anything to add meaningful.

Yup our dear "my priend" @shadow79 claimed there is nothing exists like center differential, including my car center diff lock option and light is just a gimmick.

In my experience RR are the most comfy and friendly car I have ever owned and at same time I always felt like I am sitting on a ticking bomb. What desertdude is explaining the fact, but after your first year of ownership and few bad bites you will graduate to that level of ownership experience when you can differentiate between real and honest LR professional and just greedy monkeys. What Danny shared is based on lot of greedy monkey experience touting around the market and LR name, esp RR name become too notorious because of those greedy workshops. They made this judgement that everyone who own RR is a big shot and if they rip them for couple of thousand then it's acceptable in their business dictionary. I have even come to hear from one of such greedy mechanic - that you drive RR and looking for a bargain.....! Ticking bomb was the beep of EAS - Beep beep beep - I still remember it clearly and it used to be the most haunting beep of my life, that while driving all of sudden three beeps can turn your ride in to limping beast running at 60 kmph. After couple of attempts, I finally gave up on EAS and switch to solid springs (softer version) and enjoyed my RR thoroughly. Like desertdude mentioned, I also agree that in newer version RR have improved much better on their EAS build quality and reliability. I also tasted Arnott ballons that comes about the same price and last forever in one of my close friend car, who is still driving the same RR without any haunting EAS beeps with best ride comfort. The second best thing of RR after comfort is the seating position that shows you almost every nook and corner of the road with almost zero blindspot - some seriously amazing design done by LR guys, much better than Porsche, BMW and Merc in similar league. As I owned my RR, I happen to realize that they are very easy to work on many DIY things like changing oil, filters, spark plugs and other basic maintenance that if you just have an honest mechanic, he wouldn't charge you fortune for same jobs as compare to LC, Patrol or any other Japanese 4x4. For ride comfort explanation, all I can say that I drove that RR to Salalah and while coming back due to some rush, I drove 1600 kms in 12 hours non-stop, with just fuel top-up break every 400 kms.

@Danny with all due respect, this is not the way you need to address anyone on such friendly forum. Please learn to show some respect, even when you don't agree to other's point of view. Challenge it professionally than just with these kind of insulting comments.

Sweihan drive is back on and hope to do it nicely this time. Fingers crossed.

After all this you can argue all day long. We were not comparing that, as there is no comparison on that ground. I used my car and his car wiki stats to prove a point that engine displacement is not everything as in some cases engine displacement difference makes a noticeable difference and in some cases it doesn't, whereas his argument was "no it doesn't" @treks based on my several year of off-road experience, especially in sand - Power-weight ratio is "KING". For rock climbing and mud tracks may be not but for sand hp/ton makes the big difference. Then second comes the torque band - lower the prime torque delivery RPM, better the response unlike prime torque delivering at higher RPM. Third is gearing for sure makes a big noticeable difference. DOHC engines are better than SOHC when it comes to performance gains and higher RPM for various reason: More variable timing per cyl gives valve better (fully) opening and closing times Dedicated cam for each exhaust and intake valve Due to two cam on each bank makes it less restrictive movement unlike SOHC and offer more balanced movement require for higher RPM. Few videos to clear that myth:

For 265k car he shouldn't be bother about 5k fuel consumption every year. I used my Cayenne for almost two year and spend 5694 AED for 16341 Kms

It's not mental hurdle, but experience. I kind of agree that now Japanese are not as great as they used to be before, but they are still FAAAAAR better than US cars in terms of durability, reliability and resale.