The long answer to, “What’s that you’re driving?!”

[washingthegreaseoff]

I tell people it's a kit car built on a Jeep chassis. It's interesting to note which people will actually give me the "yeah right" look. Never who you expect.

 

[HRJ]

When I get asked I will just say “Not sure, it’s borrowed” and move on.

 

[Karearea]

When I get asked I will just say “Not sure, it’s borrowed” and move on.

Are you “borrowing” from INEOS until you just return ?

 

[HRJ]

Are you “borrowing” from INEOS until you just return ?

Whatever it takes to not get bogged down in a 30 minute conversation every time I fill up. I learned that years ago when driving my first 911.

 

[landmannnn]

Or that awkward conversation
" is that a Grenadier?"
"Yes"
"What's it like?"
"Great, a couple of minor issues, good off road and a comfortable tourer"
....
[Silence]
....

 

[Tom109]

There are never any people at the station when I fill up

Outside a Home Depot I did have a quick convo with a well-informed potential owner. And another time, while parked in the contractor pick-up area for a load of 4” pvc pipe, I saw an all black new Defender (with all the lunchboxes, etc. bolted on…) parked and staring at my Gren. I know he drove immediately to his LR dealer to ask how to get one !!!

 

[landmannnn]

lunchboxes I will be using that one.

 

[Chem409]

Most people think it's a Restored/Modernized old Defender. I don't even correct them anymore. Overall, people just love it.

 

[Pretenderdefender]

I now usually say "It's a G-Wagon for half the price" and sometimes add "…developed in Styria by the same engineers who built Arnold Schwarzenegger"