Watch this Range Rover soar… and then ponder the repair bill

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Jumping a vehicle is fun. More so when it’s a machine built to take such abuse, because that means you can do it again. You can drive away. And you don’t have to call a trailer to bring your now busted car or truck to a shop. They’ll stare at you. Perhaps they’ll laugh. That’s because there’s a massive repair bill heading your way. Maybe it was all worth it though, just to see your baby fly.

So what happens when you take a prior-generation Range Rover and send it. In the video above, what happens is that the truck soars for a moment for heading nose-first back down to Earth. There’s a quick puff of smoke upon landing. I assume that’s the money that was in the owners wallet quickly vanishing.

What do you think is now broken on this truck? Well… if it wasn’t broken already. Our man Kamil speculated the following in the Hooniverse Slack chat:

So how do you think this Range Rover did upon impact? What’s broken? And would you have gone with a full send like the driver did in the video above?

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Jeff Glucker

Jeff Glucker

Jeff Glucker is the co-founder and Executive Editor of Hooniverse.com. He’s often seen getting passed as he hustles a 1991 Mitsubishi Montero up the 405 Freeway. IG: @HooniverseJeff

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22 responses to “Watch this Range Rover soar… and then ponder the repair bill”

  1. Victor~~ Avatar
    Victor~~

    That one is toast , must have been in rough shape before the stunt.

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  2. SlowJoeCrow Avatar
    SlowJoeCrow

    I don’t think Doug DeMuro’s Carmax extended warranty is going to cover that.

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  3. Sjalabais Avatar
    Sjalabais

    The Range Rover jokes are best. A guy I know – respected, funny guy, runs an Apple store – went from one of the few XC90 V8 ever sold to a Range Rover. I caught him giving advice on AAA-ish memberships…pretty mandatory with these cars, even today.

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    1. Zentropy Avatar
      Zentropy

      Speaking of XC90s, my 17-yo son apparently just realized that not all have 3.2 sixes like the one his mother is letting him drive. He woke me with a text around midnight, randomly asking me how easily (and how costly) it would be to swap in a V8. The Yamaha unit is a sweet engine, but knowing my wife’s likely take on the suggestion, I quickly squelched the idea.

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      1. Sjalabais Avatar
        Sjalabais

        Why a swap, used V8’s seem to be very cheap in the US? It’s still a rare car and probably has some extra running costs in addition to all the existing XC90 issues…but that’s a soccer mom bus he could drive with pride, hehe.

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        1. Zentropy Avatar
          Zentropy

          Oh I completely agree– the swap would cost us more than the car is worth. He’s just being a teen. When I was his age, I was swapping V8s into everything I could shoehorn one into, so I can’t be critical. That particular V8 (with a couple of turbos added) is what powers the Noble M600.

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          1. outback_ute Avatar
            outback_ute

            They also had a 5.0L version running in V8 Supercars for a while, I think it had a flat-plane crank.

          2. crank_case Avatar
            crank_case

            Tell his mother the sensible thing is to buy him a Miata and let him put a V8 in that.

      2. Maymar Avatar
        Maymar

        I’ve always wondered if that V8 would swap into any of the big Volvo-based Fords, but mostly the Taurus so you could have a proper Yamaha engined SHO again.

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        1. Vairship Avatar
          Vairship

          Ford Flex SHO, as a big bad box? 😉

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          1. Sjalabais Avatar
            Sjalabais

            Did you see this?:
            https://jalopnik.com/ford-is-a-fool-for-forsaking-the-flex-1839425623
            The Ford Flex aka Ford V760 ? has been a favourite of mine forever. Pretty much cemented a bit of self-insight that the marked and me, we don’t agree.

          2. Sjalabais Avatar
            Sjalabais

            Did you see this?:
            https://jalopnik.com/ford-is-a-fool-for-forsaking-the-flex-1839425623
            The Ford Flex aka Ford V760 ? has been a favourite of mine forever. Pretty much cemented a bit of self-insight that the marked and me, we don’t agree.

          3. Zentropy Avatar
            Zentropy

            A shame about the Flex. It remains my favorite crossover design on the market, and it’s hardly changed since its debut a decade ago.

        2. Sjalabais Avatar
          Sjalabais

          Well, it should, it’s the P2 platform? A very compact V8 to boot.

          @Zentropy, I hope you find something else to shoehorn a V8 into. If I remember correctly, you guys got an entire fleet to choose from…

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          1. Maymar Avatar
            Maymar

            I wouldn’t expect fitment to be a problem, although who knows what it would take to get the electric stuff to play nice.

          2. Zentropy Avatar
            Zentropy

            Haha, yeah, I have a few that don’t yet have V8s. The XC90 is a good, safe vehicle for a teen driver, and I don’t intend to mess with it. He can drive it as-is until the wheels fall off.

          3. Lokki Avatar
            Lokki

            Your son: Challenge Accepted! (If he’s anything like I was when I was a teen)

      3. theskitter Avatar
        theskitter

        Money is better spent on driving lessons.

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  4. outback_ute Avatar
    outback_ute

    Looks like the RH front wheel grinding on the pavement so presumably blew that tyre. Maybe an airbag on the LH rear? It may have got away without structural damage – you’d be surprised how hard they treat vehicles in durability testing.

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  5. Fred Avatar
    Fred

    Its not made to do that.The repair bill,a new one will be half the price.Fords Raptors, F 150 and Ranger are designed to do that, not Range Rovers.

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    1. Zentropy Avatar
      Zentropy

      An unmodified Raptor will not do that without significant damage. A regular F150 sure as hell won’t.

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  6. crank_case Avatar
    crank_case

    All that stuff probably all need replacing in the next six months anyway knowing RRs. No real running cost difference.

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