Land Rover are celebrating the production of the 200,000th Freelander 2 at Halewood, just three years after production started. The original Freelander was, for a car that was pretty much cobbled together from the Rover parts bin, a remarkable success. Sadly, it wasn’t a remarkable car, particularly with the K Series engine many Freelanders had succumbing to […]
Land Rover Freelander 2 off road video
We have video of the Land Rover Freelander 2 going off-road showing how effective the Terrain Response and Hill Descent Controls are. We had the Land Rover Freelander 2 for a week recently and found it – as we do with all current Land Rover products – to be even better than you’d have thought. […]
Land Rover Freelander 2 HSE Review & Road Test Part 3
The final part of our road test and review of the Land Rover Freelander 2 TD4 The bigger dimensions on the Freelander 2 have made the cabin more appealing. In many ways it reminds me of the interior on the previous model Range Rover Sport. The one I recently decried as “ill-conceived and felt low-rent”. Which was how […]
Land Rover Freelander 2 HSE Review & Road Test Part 2
We continue our review and road test of the Freelander 2 HSE here in part 2 If you look at the Freelander 2 and compare its style to its modern rivals – such as the Audi Q5 – it looks a bit staid and frumpy. But change your perspective just a little and it becomes […]
Land Rover Freelander 2 HSE Review & Road Test
We spend a week with the top of the tree Freelander 2 – the Land Rover Freelander 2 TD4 HSE – for a review and Road Test. Any good? We’ll see. It was always something of a paradox, the original Land Rover Freelander. On paper it seemed to be all the car you could need. […]
Range Rover LRX caught testing – Spy Photo +LRX Video
We have the first spy shots of Land Rover’s new baby – the Range Rover LRX – which is due to launch in 2WD & 4WD at Paris 2010. There’s been a bit of a flurry of new coming from Land Rover just lately. Apart from the fact we had the 2010 Range Rover Sport […]
LR2 / Freelander 2 Facelift Spied
We have spy shots of a Land Rover Freelander 2 sporting a disguise which points to a facelift coming soon to Land Rover’s current baby. We know it as the Land Rover Freelander 2. Elsewhere – or the US, anyway – it is known as the Land Rover LR2. But it’s one and the same – pretty much. And […]
Land Rover Discovery 4 – Still the best 4×4
Land Rover has won the Diesel Car Magazine award for best 4×4, beating off competition from the Range Rover and Freelander 2. Win-Win for LR. Awards in any aspect of life are nice to have. They’re a validation of what we do; a pat on the back; a feather in the cap. They make you feel good. Which means […]
Range Rover LRX – the 2WD version
Land Rover has revealed that the new baby Range Rover – codenamed the Range Rover LRX – will be offered in 2WD when it’s revealed later in 2010. We all have to compromise. In an ideal world we’d stick to our principles regardless. But times change and we all need to change with them. Which […]
Land Rover sales success means more jobs
Land Rover are recruiting 275 new workers at Solihull – an increase of 5.5% in the workforce – to cope with a bulging order book. It’s less than a year since we were busy reporting that Jaguar Land Rover were expecting to have to make some pretty severe job cuts. Tata had seen losses of […]