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I don't get it.

OP seems to be of the belief that the only use for a Land Rover is to onto unclassified roads/byways/greenlanes/farm tracks or off-road. I, presonally, disagree. A Land Rover is a car, just like any other, and cars are meant to be used. That this particular make is capable, in hands of a driver who knows what he's doing and provided the routes taken are all legal roads marked as such on a map, of going to places other ones can't is irrelevant.

To the OP; are you one of the increasingly vocal group that tars all Land Rover owners with the brush of the irresponsible lot that wreck the unmetalled lanes and drive off-road illegally and who wouldn't be allowed into a legitimate Land Rover Club if they paid a million pounds?

Where I live It's pretty normal to see land-rovers or any kind of 4x4 used just for getting around. I think that's the same in most rural areas of the UK. They're not considered cool at all, pretty much the opposite.

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Not OP, but I think the point is that it's a large and very petrol-hungry car that isn't strictly necessary unless you're towing something or travelling on poorly maintained roads.

I'm in the U.S., but the reason I would roll my eyes at people cruising around good-condition roads in a Land Rover or equivalent is that it's a gas guzzler, and taking it is pretty wasteful if you don't have to.

Actually, I don't really roll my eyes at people doing it in real life, because I drive my mom's minivan to my medical appointments and don't have a whole lot of room to talk. I roll my eyes at pickup trucks and SUVs which have weirdly huge wheels and are far taller than they should be. But it is kind of a truism that many vehicles of this type are marketed with ads showing them driving through the wilderness, and then people buy them and use them to drive to Starbucks.

A yaris can handle a surprising lot for the cute little dinky things they are too.

This secret reminded me: I caught part of a Top Gear USA episode where they took a Yaris off-road in the desert and it made it through fine. (Then they used a crane to lower it down a cliff because why the fuck not?)

It's Sherlock Holmes. He turns up his coat collar to look cool and makes deductions about people even if it gets him punched in the face to prove that he's the smartest person in the room. It's safe to say that he likes making an entrance more than he likes being practical.

I love this comment

Who actually goes off-road in those things?

Farmers, quite frequently.

There are "pay-and-play" sites hidden all over the UK; places where you pay a small fee to the land owner, and you get a whole day to blast around a specially designed off-road course full of mud and water holes and hills.

There's the greenlaners, groups of 2-5 vehicles that use their Land Rovers to explore the backroads that few know are there; legal by-ways and unclassified roads that aren't paved, and sometimes look totally impassible to vehicles.

Land Rover Clubs organise the second two activities quite frequently. And the two UK shows run by Land Rover Owner magazine have off-road pay-and-play sites as part of the entertainment for the weekends.

Maybe, along with the solar system, Sherlock deleted a lot of what he learned about the world outside of London and figured they should be prepared for anything?

That's what I figure too. And it would be a lot easier to rent one car and have the capability of going off road if you needed to, then to rent a different car and then scramble for an off-road vehicle if the need turned up. And Dartmoor/Devon does seem to have some unpaved roads if Google is to be believed.

Exactly. Sherlock was going in the biggest, baddest vehicle he could get Lestrade to pay for.

I'm still surprised that Sherlock was the one doing the driving.

I was too, but alas, Martin can't drive. Couldn't have been too hard to learn for just a day or two of shooting, but maybe it was a manual. (I can't remember...)

Not the car I would have guessed they owned or would choose to rent.

Well, as someone who has rented a fair number of cars, you don't always get much choice in what you end up with, especially if you are cheap like me. They can charge more for the SUVs, so that's what they keep a lot of on hand. Then when they run out of small cars, they bump you up to midsize for free, but if you ask for midsize, they always have one on hand to give you. Sherlock might have asked for a Yaris and ended up with a Landrover anyway.

I'm guessing someone who owns a vehicle rental place owes Sherlock a favor, and selected the Land Rover to "rent" to him. Either it's a rental place with an eclectic mix of autos and they thought Sherlock would like this one best, or a place that handles luxury cars and this is the only one they weren't afraid to entrust to his driving.

Or maybe Sherlock said something about going out to hunt (for the hound), and Land Rovers are popular with weekend wild game hunters from the big city?

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I don't know what's going on here but it's funny enough to make me want to watch Sherlock.

As an American... your objection kind of makes no sense to me. It's an SUV, not a ATV.

In my experience, Europeans have pretty strict ideas about big cars likely related to, as someone up-thread mentioned, the small roads in their towns and cities, not to mention the higher gas prices, and crowded areas in general. America's national infrastructure (besides the northeast coast) is much friendlier for larger vehicles, especially if you live in the south or southwest, in which many of the cities were planned and built to be car-friendly (at the cost of making public transportation a nightmare). Around where I live, no one's going to think twice about a big car at all because, why would they? We have the room for it. In a sense, the American economy encourages bigger cars, whereas European ones favor smaller ones.

how do we know they didn't use it off road? did we see how they got to the moor?

they could've rented it with the possibility that they'd have to go off road.

Jeremy Clarkson, is that you? ...no, he wouldn't suggest a Yaris. ...James?