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Wow, sounds like a beautiful machine. Too bad it’s so badly adapted to modern life in the city. If it were electric powered and fueled by clean electricity, and you had the need to go on safari regularly, then maybe… but as it is, it’s the ideal symbol of wasteful consumption. I mean, the city streets are bad, but not that bad!

Although part of me thinks it would be hilarious to watch this thing explode, converting it into some kind of radical, electric powered art-car with a useful purpose would be my choice. Or bury it head-down in the grown, so it would stand like the monolith in 2001…

“It felt wonderful to be riding in a big luxury SUV, high above most of the cars on the road.”

What feels wonderful about that? I imagine that would feel about as wonderful as wearing a tall hat in a movie theater.

We used to have a Jeep Liberty, and I was always embarrassed to drive it, not because it represented conspicuous consumption, but due to the fact that most people behind me couldn’t see around me. It made me feel like a jerk.

Want to feel wonderful in a car? Get the smallest car you can fit into. I’m 6′4″, and nothing feels better than a car that fits like a glove. Small cars are SO much more fun, and you’ll never feel guilty for blocking somebody’s view.

My bet is that you don’t actually own the vehicle in question. Instead you’re using one to stimulate what in the end will be an empty discussion of feelings about such vehicles. So be it.

Having said that, I would be curious to see how well such a vehicle could be converted to become dramatically more fuel-efficient. Of course this exercise costs money, so I would imagine some sort of competition among the grown number of vendors (some of the more or less sham) for conversion kits, etc…

I say convert it to electric, in case the country goes to the crapper and you need to escape droves of cannibalistic citizens…its seems like it would make a good car for that. By electric though I mean slap a solar panel to the roof as well.

I say you make it into a ‘Mad Max’-style post-apocalyptic assault vehicle, complete with hood-mounted automatic weapons.

The point is to deliver a message, right? Find an artist and an expert in green to hack off the top, remove the wheels, etc, and turn it into a garden of some kind. I’m sure the city or a business in SF would love to have this artwork in their front yard or park! I’m moving to SF in a few weeks, let me know if you need some help marketing or photographing the project

I have the same problem. I own a monster, which is 7 yrs old. If I sell it, someone else will continue polluting the planet. I also need to buy a new car; its production also leaves a footprint. I guess the only option is to find a buyer who uses it less than I do (7.000 miles/year). Or offset.

Have a mechanic disassemble the thing, sell the parts to people who would otherwise be buying new replacement parts, and use the money to do something good for the world. This approach will keep junk out of the landfill, save new resources from being turned into a door panel (or valve cover, or rear differential, etc), and save a ton of energy that would be spent manufacturing new parts.

If you could covert it to a more eco- friendly means of propulsion, and then publish how its done many such as myself would also follow your example. So I say convert it.

Well first off I like the idea of getting rid of gas guzzling SUV’s but the reality of the situation is that they are here and some people will always want one.

People talk about how bad they are for the environment and how they cost a fortune to drive. But lets be honest here everyone didn’t just wake up one mourning and decide that they wanted to go green. Gas prices started to rise and the everyday person started to feel the pinch. It’s only human nature to try to distance yourself from the source of the pain. If gas prices were to drop all this save the planet green movement would slowly go back onto the back burner just like back in the 80’s. The mass public of the world only look out for themselves and not for the greater good. I believe you might actual be willing.

In my opinion you should use this vehicle to show how a gas guzzling SUV can be converted into a eco friendly SUV.

Now people have suggest converting to electric but lets face it that’s going to be a small fortune and the power to weight ratio will make that range rover lose a races to a 4 year old on a big wheel. I am pretty sure that kids would have a better range too. Hydrogen conversions are joke unless you’re a prince off a small country. Bio diesel would be a great idea if the truck wasn’t powered by a gasoline engine. So what does this leave you with?

Really only one option Bio-Mass. Now you might wonder what this is because I know I was when I read about it. First off it’s not some hippies idea thought up during a sweet trip.

No it’s an idea that was spawned by looking back in the history books. Ok now for a little trip back in the way back machine. Over 60 years ago there was this little thing that you might have heard of it. Some people call it the war to end all wars but to most of us it’s World War 2. See back then there was a fuel shortage going on kind of like now, because tanks and planes don’t run on happy feelings you know.

The point is people had to find a way to get around without the need for gasoline. So someone very smart thought up the idea of using wood in a wood-fueled gasification reactor to power a normal gasoline vehicle. For those of you who are wondering what the hell a wood-fueled gasification reactor is it’s basically a stove that limits the air entering the stove to keep the fire lit but not enough to burn all the fuel release from the wood (A.K.A BIOMASS). Which are carbon monoxide, Carbon Dioxide and hydrogen. Well all know hydrogen burns from the great Hindenburg disaster. These gases when put into a normal gasoline engine can be burnt without any modifications to the engine.

Now you might be wondering why i would suggest killing trees to fuel this eco tank from hell. It’s because I am not suggesting that what I am suggesting is this. Here is where you take a little of the old tech and spin the idea with some new tech and end up with something better. Think Google. They weren’t the first search engine out there but they were able to take a technology and make it better and we all love them for it.

In the San Francisco you have one of the highest coffee shops to person ratio on the planet. I believe some of you don’t even sleep, but that’s a side note on this never ending letter.

Now for the idea: If you where to recycle the old used coffee grounds and compressed them into pellet form. This is the same process as using sawdust to process wood pellets for wood stoves. You could power the range rover from this energy source that is normally just considered trash.

Yes you’re not going to save the planet but do you think that taking one range rover off the road will. If you need advice this would be mine. It’s not going to cost a lot of money to build a wood-fueled gasification reactor. FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) back in 1989 developed a document that explained how to build such a device. Now to be really smart I would suggest is making this and then getting sponsorship from a corporation like starbucks. They want to be in the news for looking green and the vehicle would be a great way to get media attention. Then you’d get to keep the beautiful range rover you have and your truck wouldn’t be looked as a planet killer.

Now this is just a idea but it sounds like your looking for something that is going to get media attention. So this there is it. People have converted lots of cars to electrics nothing new there, no one believes hydrogen works for the public, and Bio Diesel is tired as well. If you’re looking for shock and awe this would be it. The world is so depend on only what a few company offer use that we love when someone does something different.

Give it to me. I’ll not drive it. I’ll keep it as a Luxury Art in front of my door.

You are insane. Throwing away a perfectly good car that you like(!) based on what is a scientifically unproven idea. Sad.
However, if you are going to persist with this ridiculous experiment, what “Mark” said above ( Jul 24, 08 at 1:32 pm) is the most sensible option, however you don’t get that dramatic flair or photo op with Al Gore.

The best thing that you could do with this Range Rover is to find the oldest Range Rover in the US and trade your clean car for one that is dirty. Perhaps trade with the person who has the dirtiest licensed Range Rover in the continental US.

Work done at the University of Colorado shows that “gross emmitters” can generate 500 times the noxious compounds into the air than a newer emissions compliant car.

Blowing your RR up rather than one which pollutes to a much greater extent would be truly irresponsible

give it to me. i’ll blow it up in an indie film. itll be a “car bomb”

Just pretending for a second that you’re for real, which I doubt. Somehow trashing the car would show an incredible disregard for the environmental footprint of having it produced in the first place, but keeping it on the road wouldn’t be too hot either. So give it a long-term purpose that doesn’t involve feeding it more fuel. Something like a chicken run, or a tree house.

Oh please, if you really want to make a difference then sell the car and donate the money to a worthy charity. there are children being subjected to prostitution and you’re banging on about a totally pointless topic.

I work at a proving ground and would like to see your car be run over by one or several M1 Abrams tanks. However, tanks only get 0.6 miles per gallon.

yea range rovers and all other suvs pretty much suk. id jsut get an 06 corolla.. i mean u really dont need all that luxury and power and jsut sell it. as for the enviroment not sure y ur so fixted on it u cant change it. its not the end of the world and u might long enough to see ur so called chnages but for now get another car thats worthwhile and frgt boutt he envoroment…

can you let me have it? i need a car to get to work. I’m not kidding I reqly do need a car and have no money to buy one . it would be a blessing. please consider it. contact my e-mail

Why don’t you sell it and give the money to a worthy cause instead of destroy it and make it worthless???????

i l0v3 trucks…i d0nt kn0 h0w y0u can d0 this t0 y0ur land r0v3r. scr3w da 3nvi0rm3nt

I think the thought of one less vehicle could be the way. To live in San Francisco and have a vehicle does sound absurd. There is a lot of alternative transportation in the city that is overcrowded. Friends and family that live in SF say that they enjoy taking the alternative then to pay high gas prices and outrageous parking fees. Just donate or give the vehicle to someone(like me) that doesnt have a vehicle that can pull a fifth wheel to go vacation or take their family on a vacation to the hills to enjoy mother nature’s wonder before they cant. It is cheaper to use a SUV to pull a fifth wheel or use an RV rather then traveling by plane, staying at a hotel, and then going out to eat. Staying in a RV or fifth wheel and cooking and staying in a hook-up spot is better. Then it encourages the people to possible sit out and enjoy mother nature. Then always watching TV and going out. The sky is a wonderful thing to enjoy and showing your children what nature is about is a whole lot better,.

If I were you, I would give the thing to me because I am currently driving a 1989 Ford F-150 4×4. I cannot afford a newer one since I have 6 kids and a wife. It would also get gas mileage than the van we have as well. I do need a vehicle that is more eco-friendly but I also need to haul quite a few family members as well. If you are going to destroy something that caused pollution to make teh you are not doing anyone a favor by blowing it up causing a fireball of pollution, nor would it be wise to donate it to a college that is rich enough to finance anything it wants and most colleges have way too many SUVs, with just one person driving, on the road as it is. A donation to me would only make sense. Yes, I would use it, but only when I needed to travel. And if you donated the thing to me then we would both be doing our part to have less of an impact on this great earth. Please consider this instead of an idea that would not work anyway, because if there really was a way to manufacture the perfect engine, the oil companies would buy the patent and destroy it anyway.

Ryan, I find this way over the top as people are struggling with the mortgage crisis. I am strapped to my eyeballs in student loans and you want to a perfectly good albeit impractical car that you purchased and got a huge tax write off.
Question one: How can you dispose of this car in a eco-friendly way?
Question two: Why not conert it to a biodiseal vehicle?

I am truly appalled by the notion that you have 60k to piss away in this manner. Your actions are not altruistic they are as wasteful as the car.

Why not just donate it to some poor village to drive people to market for supplies and food so they can survive. Sure it keeps polluting but the overall benefit outweighs the the harm.

I think you should use it as intended, but try to abuse it as much as possible. Drive it offroad, on steep slants. If it rolls, it rolls. Drive through water. If the engine gets flooded, so be it. Keep abusing it until it doesn’t run anymore.

Or convert it to electric. Of course, this involves putting in more money to it, so that may not be the best idea. But the benefits are astronomical, especially when it comes to saving money / the planet.

Or you could bury it… and lay concrete over it… maybe leave the roof above ground for use as a table?

Bye the way people I just read an article that says cow farts are more to blame for the global warming problem then cars. So save that beautiful car or sell it and give the money to someone who needs it.

This proves only one thing. Anyone willing to just throw away $60+ grand shows that Liberalism is definitely a mental disorder.

I just hope he feels good after he realizes that he blew $60+ grand for something that did not change a single thing and that he still has to pay for it if it is not paid off.

By the way, if it is not paid off, he better get an attorney because the creditors are coming after him.

I’d say, gut it and grow your own veggies in it. For what it’s worth, the “Globe” has been “warming” ever since the last iceage, or we’d still be in an iceage. However we’re not helping the situation.

Sell it, use the money to become educated on the true facts about global warming, not the Gore crap. Climate change is a cycle, caused by the sun. You might want to consider how much carbon will take to build your replacement vehicle.

Burning it or driving it down the cliff will actually increase your carbon footprint. Therefore I think you should convert it to a hydrogen or electric vehicle.

Or donate it to an NGO that could really use it on the rough terrains of some developing country. It could really help out an organization that can use it on the terrain the vehicle was designed for.

Please just take it apart by hand and recycle each and every component. Then, any revenue from the recyclers can be donated to a “Green-friendly” charity, to do some real good. Anything else is pretentious and a waste in the faces of less fortunate people. Think about it.

Convert it to Diesel, THEN convert it to run on SVO (- straight vegetable oil) or WVO (- waste vegetable oil)… Then donate it to a college to spread awareness.

In my opinion, destroying the car is not the best way to spread the message of global warming, air pollution and whatnot. Sure, maybe you’ll end up inspiring a handful of others who are eco-obsessed and wealthy enough to waste 60,000 to destroy a good car, but if I am right about the message that you’re trying to send, the SUV could be put to better use by being sold; the money could then be used to plant trees or donate to the WWF to save the polar bears. Be creative & use logic.

What a waste! How is it better to destroy it and waste all of the resources that went into it. There are so many people who could use a car and cannot afford on. Why don’t you give it to one of them? Or, hold a raffle for the car and give the money that was collected to an environmental charity?

You should give it to me. I’ll know exactly what to do with it. Make sure you give me the keys too.

well if your gonna destroy such a nice vehicle, why don’t you just take it for some extreme off roading and see how long it lasts, push the SUV till it is no more…it may defeat the purpose of saving gas but it would be fun

Hey wait!!!! Why trash it? When you could turn around, sell it, and use that money to start an electric car conversion business! According to a Do It Yourself group of people in California, an average car costs 8 grand to convert to electric! I saw it on CNN! Didn’t you see the movie “Who killed the electric car”? We NEED more independent people starting up conversion businesses! Taking that kind of control out of the governments hands is the only way you can make a real statement! Now that you’ve got peoples attention with your SUV, go electric! Solar energy into electricity is the only real choice.

Destroying the SUV, although dramatic, may not be the right idea. It does not make any sense. The first place, you should have not bought it. I have thesame SUV but a supercharged one. its 17 mpg. But I drive it to my work in the freeway. And also I have a big family. If you’re single, why the h__l did you buy a big SUV!!! If you want to make a statement, try to put it in perspective by looking at what exactly was the reason you bought it. Sure, burn all the SUV’s and buy a Prius. But my family came in for a vacation and we drove to the mountains and we still have to drive in 2 cars. In the end, which is more efficient, 1 car or two cars? Most off you here probably does not have a big family like I have. Probably you saw the good looks of the SUV and wanted it as a symbol(YOU BOUGHT A RR right?). If there is an SUV here in this planet that can seat more than 8, and has a gas mileage of 24mpg at least, then I will buy it immediately. But until then, leave my SUV alone.

What I would recommend to you is to sell it to somebody who needs. Yeah, its cool to blow something up, but whats your alternative?

If you blow it up you will be further disrespecting the Earth. Every thing is of the earth. Recycle that car and take care of the earth. Destruction is negativity and hate. Creation is positivity and love. Use your brain!

Donate the car to a suitable emergency respoonse organization. They will have use for this type of vehicle during a flood, tornado or other natural disaster. If you can convert it to hybrid/electric before doing so, all the better. The car could be emblazoned with eco logos as well to help spread environmental consciousness.

i say you take it to one of those places that will put a diesel engine in it that can run on veggie oil. that would def. help the enviroment more than blowing it up and sending all that smoke and oils and stuff. or, better yet, i have an expedition that’s more of a gas gussler, and i’ll trade you, you take my expedition and blow it up, and i’ll take your nice new range rover and drive it around looking awesome

Have it taken apart and then recycled.

Just like a hermit crab may make its home in a soda can, or a bird may weave a plastic bag into its nest, let the environment assimilate the SUV. Let it go back from whence it came. Drain all oil, gas, coolant, or any other pollutants incl. lcd screens, batteries, etc. Then fill the gas tank with concrete and tow it to the most affluent area of San Fransico. Then make a photo journal of its life on a daily basis until it decomposes into some urban corpse.

You say that in 2006 “a big part of the motivation then was the huge tax write off for heavy SUVs.” What huge tax write off are you referring to? I’m unclear how you were saving money by buying a Range Rover.

Wow this looks cool and I have plenty ideals but I agree with some other people that it does need to go because it is so bad for the environment but it should have a purpose such as like maybe sent back to the campany and maybe they could reuse the parts and you could probably get payed for it too. And also wouldn’t it be kind of bad for the environment if you blew it into the ocean with all those chemicals in it and if you blew it up wouldn’t it add to greenhouse or something. i totally agree that it should be gone but I think you should seriously consider something more “green” if you catch my drift.

Also if you are a “green” person you should visit http://www.recycle-all.webs.com

You could give the SUV to me then you could get my gas guzzling, air polluting 79′ Chevy Blazer off of the road forever instead. My vehicle doesn’t even have a catalytic converter which produces even more pollution and in addition to that it leaks oil like a sieve. I do however still need a vehicle to drive everyday and cant afford to get anything else at this time. If you still want to destroy your Range Rover then take it to a wrecking yard have them pick it up with one of those cranes and drop it a couple of times and then run it through the car crusher. It would be fairly environmentally friendly. Thats my idea tell me what you think.

Here is my idea….you may be successful ….but are you also insane?…..try this before any thing else..trade the beast for a more fuel efficient car….so what if someone else is driving it …that isn’t your problem…sounds like your problem may reqire a good psychiatrist

If you donate it to 1-800-Charity Cars we will provide it absolutely free to a struggling family and you can receive a tax-deduction for the “fair Market value” of the vehicle. We lead the nation in providing free cars to the needy. 899 vehicles worth over $5 million dollars last year alone. The benefit of saving a family is simply to important to ignore. Thid would certainly be a statement worth making. 1-800-Charity Cars also runs a 24 acre organic farm for the needy and supports your environmental stance. Good job and whatever your decision is thanks for performing such a selfless act!

Give it to me to haul my 6 kids around (more coming, hopefully someday)to educational places (homeschool fieldtrips). Maybe one of them will find a way to make cars super efficient and find a way to “save the earth”. I promise I’ll make that issue a priority as I teach them at home. I’ll keep working on having more kids to contribute to the human cause as much as I possibly can!

Just convert it into CNG(compressed natural gas).

Convert it. Destroying it will pollute in other ways. Convert to get the word out that electric is not only possible - but efficient.

Hmmm…so I read through all these things and saw some pretty good ideas. Before I read all of this, I was pretty much thinking of some kind of artwork kind of thing…but realistically, other than getting it off the road, what does that help? Nothing really.

So as I was going along I was trying to think, what else could be done that would actually make this thing useful???

Honestly, I was unable to come up with anything really original, but I wanted to comment, because I saw a couple of other good ideas here.

The one about using the coffee grounds to fuel it was very interesting and really kind of a cool idea. It would certainly get publicity and maybe make people think, but realistically, it still would probably not make a huge impact. Let’s face it, not that many people are going to go to the effort of making those drastic changes.

So, from all the ideas so far, I would say you have two options. I really like the idea of trading it to someone else who has a horrible, old one and trading it in for all those scooters and motorcycles like Doug mentioned above. That would be really cool to get MORE than one bad vehicle off the road…

Also, I REALLY like the idea of donating it to some really great humanitiarian agency who does great work in Africa. No, it wouldn’t help the pollution problem, but it would be extremely useful and help them in their work. Like someone mentioned above, there are actually places where they NEED these kinds of vehicles because there is no other good way to get from place to place being that there are no roads, etc.

So all in all, I would say you should find a way to donate it and have it taken to where it can actually be useful.

Whatever you decide to do, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT BLOW IT UP!!! I am sure you are smart enough to realize that if you were to blow it up, it would cause more pollution that 20 years of driving it!!

Anyway, cheers on your decision to get rid of it. I am always happy to know of people who are trying to change the way they use our resources.

DUDE!!!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING? even though you are proably doing this for “votes” to “destroy your car DONT. if you are so willing to “drive it over the cliff” or “blow it up” here is a joke ill give you 800 dollars for it lololol

I know that you want to do something for the environment; having said that, what about making the world in general a better place to live? If you really don’t want your vehicle, donate it to a Battered Woman’s shelter. Some woman out there who has been abused would love something that she could safely take her children to and from home, school; where she could feel like a human being again. Trust me, I know from where I speak.

I don’t get it… mr. go green wants to launch the car into the ocean? Polluting the ocean? This wouldn’t even enter your mind if you were truly doing this for environmental purposes.

Want to be environmental… recycle it. Oh wait you’ll just be helping china industrialize as they’re buying all our metal anyways.

Want to do something great. Donate it to someone that needs a car. Or give it to someone that doesn’t commute and would just be using it for a few thousand miles a day.

Or trade it in and get a smart car or something. Destroying an incredible machine isn’t going to do anyone any good at all as most of the ideas you’re gonna get are going to cost time and money to clean up and properly dispose of the car and the rest of them are going to directly negatively effect the environment (Like tossing it in the ocean or burning it)

So… my proposal is to give it to someone that can use it.

you do know you can add a gas vaporizor, or a Hydrogen kit, and get DOUBLE or 4 TIMES the mpg right?

Fantastic idea.

Once, we had a 1966 Toyota Corolla that “died.” While certainly not in the same class - or universe - as this beautiful hunk of opulence, our final resting place for the Toyota was scrap yard for what we could pull out and recycle/sell, but the rest became a yard planter.

That’s my vote. Gut this thing, then plant strawberries in the shell.

Am sorry to say but this is a bad ideal, your more worried about carbon that this Suv is producing. If this machine was destroyed it would effect the environment in so many ways. The material the this machine was made with will be use again. This machine should be donated to a school or college to make it an eclectic vehicle or just give it to me a broke college student that’s trying to make it threw school. I know you got money and don’t care about losing a sixty thousand dollar item, but think about the other people not just your self sixty thousand dollars is a lot of food. So please be an good man that your are and don’t destroy this machine it has done nothing to you. It protected you from danger and death, that you want to thank it by destroying it. So if u feel the need of getting rid of this machine, I would be happy to take it off your hand but promise promise to make it more Eco friendly. Have a good day Randy, just send a e-mail and we can talk more about it and plans to convert it to an HHO Hybrid

I’m sure you’ve heard this more times than you can count; but you could always trade me rigs! I own a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee and would gladly hand it over for demolition. I also live in the Northwest corner of Oregon, and will ACTUALLY use the Rover for what it was intended - off road. We hike, camp, fish and hunt. So yes, I really DO use my 4×4 for what it was made to do, not just run to get groceries or play “soccer mom”.

But….I suppose that’s not a viable option. So my suggestion is to convert it to an HHO engine. We’re working on doing it to our lawn tractor. http://www.hho-fuel.com/ Why destroy something and create more garbage and pollution, when you can convert it and donate it?

I’m sorry, but this just seems like a terrible publicity stunt… if you really cared about the envirnoment you would not have bought the thing in the first place. And then you certaintly wouldn’t be blowing it up or destroying an ecosytem by dumping it. Do something truly green… Sell it and donate the money to conservationist organization. If you don’t want it to ever be driven again, then sell it for parts. Or be truly revolutionary and modify the engine to run on ethanol or another fuel source. Don’t just make more trash for us to deal with.

This idea sounds dumb. You will do more enviromental damage blowing this up or driving off the cliff than you would giving it to charity and letting someone else drive it. Get real, and stop trying to gain your fame.

I think it’s great that you’re helping the environment, but I wouldn’t destroy your Rover. Maybe you could strip it down and sell all the parts to other motor companies for them to use on a more fuel-concious type of vehicle. The money you make can go to some kind of “pollution awareness” charity or something comprised of people who are doing something along the lines of what you want to

We own a Suburban that gets 10 miles to the gallon. You should trade us for ours (this saves 3 mpg on “a” our vehicle) and carry out the plans on our vehicle. This way you still raise awareness, but also help reduce our carbon foot print. No deal? It was worth a shot. Seriously, I think the most immediate solution is to embrace “moderation”. You can keep the Rover, but set yourself a CO2 limit to emmit per year that is comparable to that of…say a Prius. This might only require you to Bart, MUNI, Carpool, etc. 2-3 time per week. It’s the people you see on HW 101/1 driving a large SUV or Sedan alone everyday that I’m concerned about. Plus there are so many trips that people take in their automobiles that are unnecessary…come on we will drive X miles to have a cup of coffee that we could have made in our home. Therefore, I vote that you document for one year how you adjusted your transportation habits to emit the same amount of CO2 in your 13 mpg Rover as Joe Green did driving his Hybird-Electric thing-a-ma-jig. I believe it would be very instructive.

Sell it for scrap, and then do something productive with the cash. Or, donate it to a park ranger facility, they actually use all those weird features on an SUV since they’re on mountains in the middle of nowhere.

Give it to charity, destroying it would be wasteful. There are families that need a car to get to work. I think you are a bit hypocritical in that the only reason why you started this was b/c you moved to SF! If you hadn’t moved, you would still be another ignorant yuppie driving around a gas guzzler to stroke your own ego. And now youre going green??? Better late than never I guess.

Your an idiot, and obviously have more money than sense. If your that worried about the enviroment, then convert it to run on propane. It’s relativly cheap, won’t effect reliabilty, and produces 75% less emmisions. Burning, blowing it up will create more pollution than just driving it.

I vote you make it powered by solar (charge battery packs) and wind (once you’re moving) Then take people on nature drives

First off, as an ex Bay Area resident I want to say to everyone else how misconstrued and misled all of the earth first hippie activists are. San Francisco is the Motherland of all ignorant environmental claims and it is absurd. The fear tactic that was started in the Bay Area and that the media runs with is very exaggerated. I am proud to be a geologist and I am proud to do my job respectfully without bias. The impact of the “SUV” is not going to kill the earth in the next 100 years like everyone says it will, its not going to hurt anything but your wallet really.

This could be argued for hours, so rather than start a shit storm, I will throw in my two cents.

Convert the thing to biodiesel or install a hydrogen assist cell. My job requires me to have an off-road capable vehicle and I have a lifted Jeep Grand Cherokee. I installed a Hydrogen Assist Cell ($1850) and it gets around 38 mpg in town. I would say install either or and give it to an organization that could really use it. No sense in destroying a vehicle that a charitable foundation could use.

Anyway, thats my idea. I hope something positive comes out of this instead of a bunch of left wingers destroying something because of an ignorant view of how emissions should stand.

Swap it, with someone who has an suv that waste more gas. Then part out and recycle the suv you got in return.
This is the simplest solution.

Turn it into a Full Electric Vehicle. That is my vote.

Having people smash it with hammers for money is cool too.

I think that you should convert it into a 100mpg turbo diesel hybrid hydrogen rover. this guy did it with his hummer h1 and still had access to 650 hp when he needed it!
http://www.hlineconversion.com/diesel-conversions.php

What a Waste! If you truly want it off the road do it right. Remove all fluids and crush it into a small cube. Save it as art. Keep it it on display and pay to move it with you to your next house. Recycling the parts will only encourage others to continue driving theirs’, as will donating it to anybody! “Art cars” suck, don’t do that! Technology to re-create your SUV is too expensive and will just make a different version of another piece of crap. Crush it and put it in your living room with a glass tabletop. Elegant waste!

I think the electric conversion is the best way to go.

Why would you but this machine? If you are so “green” and environmentally conscious, there should be no reason to get caught up in this consumer battle.. Why does anyone need a $60,000 SUV that sucks gas? They don’t need, they want, because it is a staus symbol. And to you Mr. Ryan Mickle, I am ashamed that you got caught up in having to buy this car mainly because your neighbors, or your co workers have it, and because it is a staus symbol. No matter what you do with it afterwards, you have already contributed to the consumeristic machine buying this very over priced car, because it says soemthing about how much you are worth, or you are trying to express how much “cooler” you are than the rest of us who do not have $60,000 SUV piece of shits..

Unbelievable! As an Alaskan resident living in San Diego at the moment, it seems extremely absurd! That is a car that is perfect for Alaska, not S.F.-I agree. All I know is that I drove so many beaters up there that I’m sure it caused way more harm (and scary moments being broke down in zero degree weather!)than 5 times this SUV. Please re-consider and give it to an Alaskan family-it’ll do way more harm than good!

I will trade you my 02 40mpg saturn for your rover. I live in NY and drive 32foot trailers for a living. I would like a more reliable 4 wheel drive car so I can make it back and forth to work in the blizzards and rain. I only have a 20 minute ride to work but it’s on rough back roads. You are looking for a car that suite your needs, and I am looking for a car that suits mine. So what do you say? I won’t drive it that much so the effects of pollution would be minimal. Smartly save the planet.

Well if you’re concerned with helping the environment take a deeper look into the vehicle. It has a aluminum head and block for the engine, aluminum is not very effecient to refine not to mention by recycling a stripped block and both heads would net more cash for blowing it up. If thats too much work, go to you tube, search Rally Cars and try to emulate their moves, make sure to catch that hospital visit on tape though.

Recycle it. Please do not leave its tattered remains in a landfill or immolate it since doing so would further discharge greenhouse gases, defeating the purpose.

Give it to a poor person. What a waste

Hello, here’s an idea for the range rover… The truth of the matter is that the rise in gas prices has affected everyone. Alot of people in the U.S. always come up with this ” save the planet”, ” save other countries” idea. We can support other countries by importing their products, feeding them, making them healthier, going to war with them… costing the US millions of dollars and taking away from our people at home! If you are truly serious about doing something good with the Range Rover, do something that will make an impact on someone’s life who needs help, and do it here at home. There are so many people here in the US living with a disability or disease they cannot heal from. Why don’t you donate it to someone living with HIV/AIDS? It would help get them to doctors appts, get groceries, normal everyday things that something like that would help them out! I happen to be someone like that, and I would love to have a decent vehicle to get me around, it would make life easier. Think about it… ( just don’t blow it up) And while it would still be on the road,you would be doing someone a wonderful thing. Everyday thousands of cars go to the junkyard or get recycled and that plays a big part in helping out the enviroment. Espically older cars that do not have emission controls on them. So do a good deed, and donate it to me!

Ryan, don’t be a follower. Your crowd surfing shows that you are not a leader, even if you make great money. My point is this, man made global warming is a farce. If you had asked the scientists that do the computer modeling they could have told you that they used twice the amount of atmospheric CO2 in the model, assuming on top of that, that CO2 is absorbing the heat from the sun and then delivering that heat to surrounding atmosphere and is the cause of global warming. Second point, one, yes one volcanic eruption creates more CO2 than all of mans combined CO2 for a full year. If you know would please answer this question. How many volcanic eruptions happen in one year? No I will not give you the answer. Use the brain that you have been given for something else than making money. The answer is obviously more than one. Drive your Range Rover guilt free my friend and do more charity work, it will fill the void in your soul with that you seriously feel.

Hi, Why would you claim that you are saving the environment by stopping one car out of millions for good. and then you want to blow it up, dump it into an ocean, roll it down a cliff, etc. have you thought about the dangers to nature and the environment then?? it is really stupid that you even suggest a thing as this. if you dont want to sell it let someone come steal it from you or better yet just send it to me i have been without transportation for a few months now, and i need one to go to work daily. help me out by sending it to me i will give it a great home. i wont use it much just to get to my job less than 5 miles away. one car off the earth isnt going to help the environment or nature around it.