I'm genuinely surprised at how much I've enjoyed the P38 series so far, Nick has that easy charisma and dry humor that has been missed since the earlier days of top gear imo.
I have an honest question, not a troll: what is the joy/fun of offroading? I haven't had the opportunity to try it so I'm curious. This stuff in the video doesn't seem fun to me but I might have different opinion after I try it.
@@JuNo7373 much like spirited driving, it's all about the feel. In rock crawling specifically, the technical aspect of choosing your lines right and managing the steering and throttle is appealing to people like me. You don't fully understand until you've experienced it, but don't do an offroad expedition with some company, those are watered down. You can probably find someone in the community, perhaps a friend of a friend, who will let you ride and get you hooked.
Your HVAC warning light is most likely for the blend motors. It's a common P38 issue, and would make sense if you're still getting cold air, just not much.
I love following along with mine that I've owned for 7 months! Just had mine towed because a problem with the door latch maybe set off the alarm and immobilizer.
The funning thing is, out of all of the cars there, the P38 is the only vehicle I want. My first car was a 2001 Epsom green P38 and lord knows that was such a fun car for a 16 year old haha. The adventures it went on, mudding, rocks, trails, camping. It did it all.
@@metadata4255 a combination of both. Lmao at the time I wasn’t a car guy (I now run body shops and I’m very much a car guy lol) so I didn’t know it was expensive I just knew I loved it and I took all the courses and such my parents asked for and picked one out. Once it was mine it was 100% on me to maintain and take care off. (Insurance, gas, maintenance, etc) So I got a job and whenever something went wrong I made the appointments to get it fixed and learned to do maintenance myself. It’s what got me into cars to be honest. I genuinely went off road often with it. I had friends with jeeps and tahoes and 4runners and we had a lot of fun. I got to learn engines on the Bosch 4.6 lol my next vehicle was a an e46 330 with the zhp package. So my first two cars were my first experience with repairs and maintenance. Now nothing scares me 😂
@@metadata4255 I had my dads 1994 classic range rover for my first car to mob around san francisco, it was 2002. my dad thot it was a great choice because its was slow and safe and gave him an excuse to get a new P38. my brother had a porsche 928 as his first car and rolled it so the $4000 '88 bmw M635csi (70k miles 1 owner red on beige leather) that I test drove and I had money for and wanted so bad was a big no. Girls really really liked my range rover tho and then I got a clutch pedal on vacation to a german junkyard for a manual swap which made it perfect.
@@metadata4255all models of range rovers are extremely reliable the best being late model classics. owners like to boast by making it seem that even if you could afford one you couldn't afford the maintenance and tow bills. but maintenance was less than competitors like the naviagtor and escalade. that said if you overheat the engine expect to have to install top hat liners for $10k so mind the temperature gauge. cracking the block and dropping a liner is always the driver's fault -> aluminum blocks are generally more delicate.
I don't know HSE 2002 Java black over 200,000 mi and I've wanted one ever since they came out and I bought the last year on purpose and it's been the best vehicle I've ever owned
I had a 2001 30th Anniversary Edition P38 that suffered from electrical gremlins. One of the critical gremlin was the left turn signal would stay on and not blink even if the car was turned off. I did a lot of research and thought I had to have my ECU under the passenger seat rebuilt. Once I opened up the ECU I found that either a hot chocolate or coffee has spilled on to the ECU and covered some of the circuits/chips. I cleaned the circuit board and solved my issues.
I had a P38 for 18 months. That was over 14 years ago. It was my favorite and most hated vehicle at the same time. I traded it in on Lexus RX hybrid. I still own that hybrid a decade and a half later and I still miss that Range Rover.
For all the digs about reliability and faults, the P38 still has a presence about it, even in bright yellow paint! Getting wheel spin on the articulation part - you may find if you kept into the throttle a little, it would figure it out. If not, then your Traction control and/or auto center diff may not be working right.
My 03 L322 Range had a steering column solenoid lock up on it, to start it I had to install a fuse tap into the glove box fuse box. With this I had a switch wired that I had to flip on and off for a start, then turn the key 3 times and then it finally started. I loved that Range but it was a constant nightmare.
Not gonna lie I have asked a couple p38 owners I met where they get it serviced xD P38 is as capable as the other 2 trucks out there, under 10k and looks awesome doing it. You will sell it and will stay in your mind and you will buy another one thats been sorted later on, they are just great.
The p38 is the better choice out of those 3 for offroading. Cheap, capable and if you can find it with a 2.5 diesel (bmw engine) it's also reliable. Just raise the air springs and strap some off road tires and that's it have fun.
@@laurentiup5312 no 2.5 in the US but rover v8 power is better than the 2.5 for any off road work. Mine still has the EAS, would not have it any other way
@@oficina_moomoo yes the petrol engine has more power but people are complaining about reliability so that's why I suggested the 2.5 diesel also with a manual transmission there's no way it's gonna break.
@@oficina_moomoo neaaah they're tanks just like the 1.9 Tdi from VW trust me I've seen a lot of them with more than 600k miles still running good. The 2.0 diesel BMW from that era is also bulletproof.
One of my favorite pieces of automotive journalism, can't remember the magazine, but they did a rental car road test and one of the tests was acceleration and top speed in reverse lmao
Tavarish got his bag from running alt-right conspiracy websites in the 2016 election cycle which tracks too well with the dude...can't stand him. Also one of the most puncheable faces of automotive RUclips.
P38 is the last real Range Rover and I love it. I have had five of them before, and I always come back to them, now I got another one, a twentyfive year anniversary model, nr 18 of 100 made! It has 240000 km on it. I´ve had some issues with them all, but not so bad. If you just maintain them they are pretty reliable. Pity yours don´t have the air suspension left. That makes all the difference! I would never buy one without it! The parts are supercheap so why not fix it if broken? one airbag 90$!
Making and marketing a vehicle to go off road that doesn't have sufficient cooling to keep itself from overheating while going slow. That's all you need to know about Land Rover
I own a 2002 HSE with over 200,000 mi on it now and it's honestly been the best vehicle I've ever owned 🤷🏻♂️ If you're too poor to not do maintenance don't buy Range Rover If you can do maintenance on them they'll last forever as long as you maintain them
😂That fans of mechanical fan nit wits.The electric fans are on the AC condenser. The Range Rover doesn't cool by electric fans it's a mechanical one fer fuck sakes. 😂 yo my banjo what it was cuz y'all definitely aint experts🎉
The rock at the end looked like you need to take some amount of care - the rest looked pretty tame. Now that I own a very capable SXS, watching Jeep and other off-road vehicles doing anything but severe rock climbing is pretty boring. SO SLOW.
In terms of a combination of approach/breakover and departure angles that Range Rover owns the other two... (the Toyota looks especially bad, maybe a good overlander but not an off-roader).
In an earlier video in the Range Rover, they said the seating position and height made it tower over a TRX in traffic and here it is sitting lower than a Rivian and sequoia. Lmao so….
IMO, LAME. I used to live in the San Diego area and that just the perimeter access road at Corral Canyon OHV Area. Been there more times than I can count and that route is 2WD.
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Doug with sunglasses looks just funny 😂
It's almost an Uncanny Valley situation.
I'm genuinely surprised at how much I've enjoyed the P38 series so far, Nick has that easy charisma and dry humor that has been missed since the earlier days of top gear imo.
Yup, this works. It's cool that Doug Inc is trying new things and stuff.
You think Nick makes money off these videos?
@@fnikacevic no he loses money cos he bought a Range Rover of legal drinking age
"You don't have air conditioning?"
*pause*
"I have a warning light for the air conditioning..."
Literally spit out my water I was drinking lmao
I'm so psyched that Doug and co Have been doing so much experimenting on the channel.
As a SoCal offroader, I know Corral Canyon and I respect C&B for choosing such a great spot for this video
I have an honest question, not a troll: what is the joy/fun of offroading?
I haven't had the opportunity to try it so I'm curious. This stuff in the video doesn't seem fun to me but I might have different opinion after I try it.
@@JuNo7373 much like spirited driving, it's all about the feel. In rock crawling specifically, the technical aspect of choosing your lines right and managing the steering and throttle is appealing to people like me. You don't fully understand until you've experienced it, but don't do an offroad expedition with some company, those are watered down. You can probably find someone in the community, perhaps a friend of a friend, who will let you ride and get you hooked.
@@sivildisobedience Makes sense, thanks for the explanation!
I love that Doug's craziest friend has the calmest voice 😂😂😂
Best looking of the three trucks BY FAR. What a beautiful car.
Your HVAC warning light is most likely for the blend motors. It's a common P38 issue, and would make sense if you're still getting cold air, just not much.
Thank you for creating this channel! I’ve been a fan for YEARS but this was so much fun.
This might be one of my favorite series that you’ve done so far. Very enjoyable. This episode was top-notch.
That P38 looks sooooo good on the trail.
This is such a FUN video to watch The banter and doing simple off-road maneuvers make me miss my P38
Doug is the kind of guy who has his friends make his content! And it’s great
Dead meme. Stupid comment.
I love following along with mine that I've owned for 7 months! Just had mine towed because a problem with the door latch maybe set off the alarm and immobilizer.
The funning thing is, out of all of the cars there, the P38 is the only vehicle I want. My first car was a 2001 Epsom green P38 and lord knows that was such a fun car for a 16 year old haha. The adventures it went on, mudding, rocks, trails, camping. It did it all.
16 year old with a Range Rover? Familial wealth or reckless mechanical abandon? Not mutually exclusive, but I'm CURIOUS.
@@metadata4255 a combination of both. Lmao at the time I wasn’t a car guy (I now run body shops and I’m very much a car guy lol) so I didn’t know it was expensive I just knew I loved it and I took all the courses and such my parents asked for and picked one out. Once it was mine it was 100% on me to maintain and take care off. (Insurance, gas, maintenance, etc) So I got a job and whenever something went wrong I made the appointments to get it fixed and learned to do maintenance myself. It’s what got me into cars to be honest. I genuinely went off road often with it. I had friends with jeeps and tahoes and 4runners and we had a lot of fun. I got to learn engines on the Bosch 4.6 lol my next vehicle was a an e46 330 with the zhp package. So my first two cars were my first experience with repairs and maintenance. Now nothing scares me 😂
@@metadata4255 I had my dads 1994 classic range rover for my first car to mob around san francisco, it was 2002. my dad thot it was a great choice because its was slow and safe and gave him an excuse to get a new P38. my brother had a porsche 928 as his first car and rolled it so the $4000 '88 bmw M635csi (70k miles 1 owner red on beige leather) that I test drove and I had money for and wanted so bad was a big no. Girls really really liked my range rover tho and then I got a clutch pedal on vacation to a german junkyard for a manual swap which made it perfect.
@@metadata4255all models of range rovers are extremely reliable the best being late model classics. owners like to boast by making it seem that even if you could afford one you couldn't afford the maintenance and tow bills. but maintenance was less than competitors like the naviagtor and escalade. that said if you overheat the engine expect to have to install top hat liners for $10k so mind the temperature gauge. cracking the block and dropping a liner is always the driver's fault -> aluminum blocks are generally more delicate.
I don't know HSE 2002 Java black over 200,000 mi and I've wanted one ever since they came out and I bought the last year on purpose and it's been the best vehicle I've ever owned
holy cow, this trio is actually... watchable? Maybe even... FUN?
The P38 is still a Range Rover classic underneath
Completely different
the P38 looks 750x better out there and I love it so much
Once again I have to comment on what a beauty the P38 is, especially in that yellow. It looks at home on the trail.
His smile at @18:10 says it all #P38 #Power
Put a smile on my face. Even love the Land Rover T-shirt. Waiting for the next installment.
More videos like this please.. Great job.
The P38 was the most capable out of the box offering of the time. With minimal upgrades they are really good offroad.
I had a 2001 30th Anniversary Edition P38 that suffered from electrical gremlins. One of the critical gremlin was the left turn signal would stay on and not blink even if the car was turned off. I did a lot of research and thought I had to have my ECU under the passenger seat rebuilt. Once I opened up the ECU I found that either a hot chocolate or coffee has spilled on to the ECU and covered some of the circuits/chips. I cleaned the circuit board and solved my issues.
Best series! Please do more!
I've always wanted a P38. They are so underrated.
I had a P38 for 18 months. That was over 14 years ago. It was my favorite and most hated vehicle at the same time. I traded it in on Lexus RX hybrid. I still own that hybrid a decade and a half later and I still miss that Range Rover.
That yellow car looks 😎👍
This video reminds me of classic Top Gear episodes… BUT YOU WOULDN’T KNOW THAT, NICK, WOULD YOU?!?!?
haha touche
For all the digs about reliability and faults, the P38 still has a presence about it, even in bright yellow paint! Getting wheel spin on the articulation part - you may find if you kept into the throttle a little, it would figure it out. If not, then your Traction control and/or auto center diff may not be working right.
Toyota has been on fire.
Love the styling of Doug’s Sequoia. They are the most reliable cars and now some of the best looking cars on the market.
I’d say the opposite. Just fugly. Even if they like to make it look a bit edgy and sharp it is still boring.
What current styles do you like?
Land Rovers are pretty sweet if your wheeling buddies have reliable vehicles.
Truly excellent content as of late, but you already know that
My 03 L322 Range had a steering column solenoid lock up on it, to start it I had to install a fuse tap into the glove box fuse box. With this I had a switch wired that I had to flip on and off for a start, then turn the key 3 times and then it finally started. I loved that Range but it was a constant nightmare.
Perfect video
Would have been cool to also see the Rivian and the Sequoia do some more offroading
That would damage those $100k mall crawlers too much. 😆
Coooool!
That was nothing! I could do that in my Honda Accord!
I was going to say lol my rx330 does stuff like that all the time
Yeah. I used to take roads worse than that just to get to a boat launch in an E46... While towing the implied boat.
Loved the video!!! offroad stuff is fun
Not gonna lie I have asked a couple p38 owners I met where they get it serviced xD
P38 is as capable as the other 2 trucks out there, under 10k and looks awesome doing it.
You will sell it and will stay in your mind and you will buy another one thats been sorted later on, they are just great.
The p38 is the better choice out of those 3 for offroading. Cheap, capable and if you can find it with a 2.5 diesel (bmw engine) it's also reliable. Just raise the air springs and strap some off road tires and that's it have fun.
@@laurentiup5312 no 2.5 in the US but rover v8 power is better than the 2.5 for any off road work. Mine still has the EAS, would not have it any other way
@@oficina_moomoo yes the petrol engine has more power but people are complaining about reliability so that's why I suggested the 2.5 diesel also with a manual transmission there's no way it's gonna break.
@@laurentiup5312 I dunno, bmw diesels from that era are not really known for their reliability :D
@@oficina_moomoo neaaah they're tanks just like the 1.9 Tdi from VW trust me I've seen a lot of them with more than 600k miles still running good. The 2.0 diesel BMW from that era is also bulletproof.
They should take airport rental cars off road
One of my favorite pieces of automotive journalism, can't remember the magazine, but they did a rental car road test and one of the tests was acceleration and top speed in reverse lmao
Music was great for this!
The branches scratching the roofs caused me a lot of pain 😅
DO MORE OFF-ROADING VIDEOS THIS IS GREAT
A jaguar XJ has got to be the next car😂
I'd really like a 2002-2006 XKR - definitely on teh list
@@NickRoshon manual swap
I absolutely hate to be this guy but Ive done that exact trail in SoCal in a lifted first gen Prius.
I would buy a Prius Sterrato.
Nick speaks into the walkie-talkie like he's doing voice-to-text 6:33 6:45 7:05 7:13
My mom regularly sends me voice recordings where she talks like a robot (while stating punctuation) because she thinks she's doing voice-to-text.
4:37
Nick : "I bet it'll go 1st try! 5 dollars!"
Sam: "...that's not impressive."
The banter in these videos is 10/10.
I'm an experienced off-roader in 4low on tarmac
Nick will be paying someone on Cars & Bids to take his P38 🙂
as you can tell by my profile picture, i once owned a p38. greatest off road vehicle ive ever had.
Temu Cartrek coming next
Temu CarTrek, which is Temu TopGear
Tavarish got his bag from running alt-right conspiracy websites in the 2016 election cycle which tracks too well with the dude...can't stand him. Also one of the most puncheable faces of automotive RUclips.
Next project I want to see Nick take on is a BMW E60 M5!!!😂
I could do that in my Honda Accord
Appreciate keeping things in that every one else would cut 😂
Nick treating a Land Rover like a Land Cruiser is funny
The world needs more Nick.
earliest ive ever been to a video
Sam looks like hoovies stunt double.
This dude being in 4low on tarmac killed me 💀you can tell 4 wheeling ain't Nick's territory
P38 is the last real Range Rover and I love it. I have had five of them before, and I always come back to them, now I got another one, a twentyfive year anniversary model, nr 18 of 100 made! It has 240000 km on it. I´ve had some issues with them all, but not so bad. If you just maintain them they are pretty reliable. Pity yours don´t have the air suspension left. That makes all the difference!
I would never buy one without it! The parts are supercheap so why not fix it if broken? one airbag 90$!
As a British car person whenever I meet someone with another British car I always ask who their mechanic is
Making and marketing a vehicle to go off road that doesn't have sufficient cooling to keep itself from overheating while going slow. That's all you need to know about Land Rover
Why does this feel like three kids playing make-believe in mom’s backyard?
I own a 2002 HSE with over 200,000 mi on it now and it's honestly been the best vehicle I've ever owned 🤷🏻♂️ If you're too poor to not do maintenance don't buy Range Rover If you can do maintenance on them they'll last forever as long as you maintain them
And if you suck at that doing vehicle maintenance or even properly maintaining a machine by a f****** Honda or a Kia
😂That fans of mechanical fan nit wits.The electric fans are on the AC condenser. The Range Rover doesn't cool by electric fans it's a mechanical one fer fuck sakes. 😂 yo my banjo what it was cuz y'all definitely aint experts🎉
Great trip.
Was EAS up high?
It's coil spring converted so sadly no EAS wizardry!
@NickRoshon sadly?? That probably saved another $10k on the rebuild, that's a blessing!
@@NickRoshon I don't want to tell you what to do mate, but get it back on air shocks :)
That was nothing I could do that in a Honda accord
Too funny.
I would hardly call any of that off-roading 😂
Everyone making fun of the P38 but the Rivian got left behind and then the Toyota got left behind. The P38 did the hard stuff.
So, they visited Brokeback Mtn?
Seems like he used the P38 on highway-locked mode. P38 was just too low and not high enough.
Nick’s level of disaster is amazingly satisfying every, single time. Total dumpster fire.
I can do that in my Honda Accord
Love the p38
I hate that they act like a “$10,000 off-roader” is a $1,500 off-roader. Otherwise, this has been a fun series
The rock at the end looked like you need to take some amount of care - the rest looked pretty tame. Now that I own a very capable SXS, watching Jeep and other off-road vehicles doing anything but severe rock climbing is pretty boring. SO SLOW.
This is 'offroading' in California? ... It's a dirt road.
Is this a question?
16:36
FILIPPO GET A QVALE MANGUSTA!!!
Also being in Low on the road… What a bad duo with the P38
These are great promotional videos before selling the car on Cars & Bids, really babied by the owner
Nick the type of guy to pressure wash the F out of a Range Rover P38's engine bay and tell you about it with a smile.
Dead meme. Stupid comment. Grow up
Very well water washing the engine….
I could do this in my Honda accord! This was nothing.
I could’ve done that in my Honda Accord!
The only thing missing is Clarkson, May, and Hammond.
If it doesn’t have camo fenders I’m not interested.
How many thousands of dollars will be lost on this auction?
That’s nothing! I did that trail in my unicycle!!!
In terms of a combination of approach/breakover and departure angles that Range Rover owns the other two... (the Toyota looks especially bad, maybe a good overlander but not an off-roader).
I don't like the new background music. is it to mask the reverb ? can we just treat this garage properly WRT acoustics ?
Who the heck over 18 pressure washes their engine?
Lol as if this thing wasn’t clapped enough he pressure washed the engine bay and gave it electrical problems. Good luck with that💀
In an earlier video in the Range Rover, they said the seating position and height made it tower over a TRX in traffic and here it is sitting lower than a Rivian and sequoia. Lmao so….
Imagine if they all brought something terrible
In 1985 when living in Brazil, I did a lot worse on a VW Santana. Did not see any real Off-roading 😂😂😂
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IMO, LAME. I used to live in the San Diego area and that just the perimeter access road at Corral Canyon OHV Area. Been there more times than I can count and that route is 2WD.
What's the timestamp where they actually go OFF road? What I'm seeing isn't any more challenging than a rural driveway.
16:35
Why wouldn’t you learn the vehicle before driving it???