FFRR Ghia

[Pyrolysis]

Am I missing something here? Read on for a trivial observation.

I have been reading alot of FFRR threads recently because I may buy one soon. I consistently see people referring to the FFRR as a Vogue. In the way that you may refer to a model produced by a manufacturer. For example, Ford Sierra. I even read that somebody wanted to buy a Vogue V8 Autobiography! Surely thats like saying i would like to buy a Ford Sierra LX Ghia? Makes no sense, but it seems that a significant amount of people believe that Vogue is akin to Sport and Evoke, and forget that a RR was always just an RR.

Edited by Pyrolysis on Thursday 25th August 21:09

[SmithCorona]

You're not missing anything. They are fking idiots.

Thank god JLR dropped the phrase for the L460.

[2 GKC]

Wtf is a Vouge?

[Pyrolysis]

2 GKC said:

Wtf is a Vouge?

Yes I know, typing in haste. Fixed that for you x

[Pyrolysis]

SmithCorona said:

You're not missing anything. They are fking idiots.

Thank god JLR dropped the phrase for the L460.

Thanks for confirming SC, I wholeheartedly agree!!

[SmithCorona]

Now go and buy one! You won't regret it. Though many people who have never had one will say you will.

[Deranged Rover]

I keep reading threads that refer to the Range Rover as an ‘FFRR’.

Probably the same idiots.

[babelfish]

Deranged Rover said:

I keep reading threads that refer to the Range Rover as an ‘FFRR’.

Probably the same idiots.

[Chrishum]

JLR under the Land Rover division now market a number of cars including 4 different types of Rang Rover, each with their own trim levels.

It’s not a Land Rover Evoque or a Range Rover Evoque by Land Rover. They sell a Range Rover Evoque.

So for many people who haven’t still got a mess in their pants over the fact a Range Rover ‘Sport’ now exists feel it sensible to make it clear they’re not a pauper buying an Evoque or Sport, nor an influenza buying a Velar. I’m not really sure it matters what anyone refers to a car as provided you’re happy with your purchase though.

[Cold]

It's a real bugbear of mine too. Vogue is not a model of Range Rover. It is a trim level on the previous generation of car - and an entry level one at that.

Range Rover needs no other label or nomenclature.

[Pyrolysis]

Deranged Rover said:

I keep reading threads that refer to the Range Rover as an ‘FFRR’.

Probably the same idiots.

Nothing more than an affectionate nickname I'm sure. I don't expect there to be a Full Fat badge on the back or available as a trim level so not quite the same.

[SmithCorona]

Nothing wrong with FFRR as nomenclature, otherwise you have to deal with a prick in an evoque telling me he drives one too. Would you rather it was called a vogue??!

[SmithCorona]

Chrishum said:

It’s not a Land Rover Evoque or a Range Rover Evoque by Land Rover. They sell a Range Rover Evoque.

Not really, its a Land Rover, Range Rover, Evoque.

[Deranged Rover]

SmithCorona said:

Nothing wrong with FFRR as nomenclature, otherwise you have to deal with a prick in an evoque telling me he drives one too. Would you rather it was called a vogue??!

No. I’d rather it was called a Range Rover. Which is what it is.

[Stick Legs]

Guilty pleasure is asking someone which Range Rover they have and if they say Evoque/Velar/Sport I just act politely disappointed.

As my Father in Law put it, if it hasn’t got a split tailgate it isn’t a Range Rover, but a jacked up estate car.

[CSK1]

First gen Sport wasn’t a Range Rover as it was based on Discovery underpinnings.
From L494 onwards, floorpan of the Range Rover Sport is shared with the big/proper /FFRR or whatever you’d like to call THE Range Rover.

[SmithCorona]

Deranged Rover said:

No. I’d rather it was called a Range Rover. Which is what it is.

But in reality it doesn't work, because its a model line and a model.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/morri...

(Old link that you may remember from when it was first talked about on PH)

[AstonZagato]

Even dealers do this. Winds me up. "What car have you got?" "A Range Rover" "Oh, a Vogue."

[Deranged Rover]

SmithCorona said:

But in reality it doesn't work, because its a model line and a model.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/morri...

(Old link that you may remember from when it was first talked about on PH)

No it’s not a model line; it’s a model. The four models with the similar names are:

- Land Rover Range Rover
- Land Rover Range Rover Sport
- Land Rover Range Rover Velar
- Land Rover Range Rover Evoque.

The initials of Decca’s Full Frequency Range Recording system of the 1940s do not appear anywhere so are completely unnecessary!

As to the linked article, the journalist who wrote the article is clearly a moron who hasn’t done his research, and the article has not been peer reviewed.

Pandering to morons is not a reason to start inventing new names for things.

[SmithCorona]

Range Rover is a model line, though.

And it's not just the journalist who think that DS (Discovery, Sport) is a Range Rover, the owner does too.