freelander getting bigger !!! yey

the freelander is getting bigger, yipee and it will only be available with 4 doors. its getting bigger to make room for the "babie landy" comming sometime 07. yey


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Now all we need is a turbo diesel in the states.

peopel obviosly dont regard a new vehicle as good gossip dont make me use the force

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ORIGINAL: Randy Lover

peopel obviosly dont regard a new vehicle as good gossip dont make me use the force

sorry about my feerdback, but i don't care for the freelander, it does not even have a low range, WTF LR, no low range.

i bought the new star wars and haven't even watched it yet.


i like the dark side myself eh he he he he he he

Sorry 05landrover, I know you like em but I need low range, I save my no low range for my mustangs. hehehe

RL,

I'm interested!!!

When is the new Freelander out then? Any more (undisguised) piccies at all?

Cheers

Mojo

i think sometime 2007, the is like 2 more phtots but it just looks like any other freelander and its well disgiused

i have to agree with mikemeyer, the freelander might as well be a honda pilot, it just really isnt that off road ready.

From my poll it would seem most people want on road not off.
The shame of it.

FROM WHAT I HAVE HEARD, AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THEY PLAN TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE FREELANDER TO SOMETHNG SIMILAR TO THE LR3 HERE IN THE STATES.

I was at Land Rover Fort Worth Friday and a salesman showed me a email he got about the new Freelanders. They will look like a smaller version of LR3 and I don't know about name change. Reminds me of how the H3 looks like a small H2, well, new Freelander looks like a small LR3. I don't know about engine options or low range though.

That's just what I know is what they look like and they might come out this time next year.

I heard someone say that it's going to be called the LR2. Probably wrong, but, I bet it will be something along those lines.

Hopefully more easy on the fuel too.
I had one for awhile when my Disco was in the shop and it used gas quicker than the Disco.
What does everyone think of the influence Ford is having on Landrover ?

I was raised on Fords, so I like it.

Freelanders only have a 16.9 gallon tank. What does a disco have?

24.5 or so. I get around 325 miles before I get really nervous.

Yeah, that's about the same here. I do alot of city driving.
On the '02 Disco i used to have, I needed to have it taken in to have the valves cleaned and in the meantime was using a Freelander.
It was fun, my son loved to stick his head out the sun-roof.
That is until he had a bird dive-bomb him while driving under some trees.........hate to say it but it was funny.

i heard that the new freelander is being unrevealed sometime between june/july to compete withe the jeep patriot

meh....I never understood the Freelander, but I liked the small suv niche it had, I do not understand making it bigger..but, to each their own...I do not like Fords influence, mainly because its just not...british anymore...too 'mainstream' sell outs now--ford wants nothing but bottomline (they need to, for the US stock shareholders, gotta get that quarter estimate up!), whereas land rover wanted some profit no doubt, but they actually understood how to make a real off road vehicle...now they are all stripped of CDLs, manual tranny for the most part, and rely waaaay too much on electronics to let the 'soccer' moms not have to think about how to drive off road...

that is full of generalizations, but still, ford-LR does not make me too happy with their design changes---also, i would take an lr3 anyday, but man, they just look like a big honda element, they took away the distinction that the old discovery line had--you could always find them in a parking lot, now, you have to LOOK for them...

WHAT I AM NOT A BIG FAN OF IS THE "NAFTA" THING.
ALL OF THE DOMESTIC VEHICLES (DODGE, FORD, AND GM) HAVE FACTORIES IN MEXICO WHERE THEY GET THE PARTS MADE.
OF COURSE, NOW THERE ARE "MASTER KEYS" THAT COME ACROSS THE BORDER IN THE HANDS OF AUTO-THIEVES.
THEY'RE SWIPING THEM LIKE CRAZY.
HOPEFULLY LANDROVER WILL GET THE LUCK AS HARLEY-DAVIDSON DID WHEN IT WENT OUT ON ITS OWN.
THERE HAVE BEEN SOME PROGRESSIVE CHANGES IN THE CURRENT LINE.......GRANTED, SOME QUITE LONG OVERDUE.
BUT I CAN UNDERSTAND WHERE THE "TRADITIONALISTS" ARE COMING FROM.
I STILL CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE DAY THAT THE DEFENDER GETS SOLD HERE AGAIN.

Hi
and now you all should have seen the new Freelander 2 :)
http://www.landrover.com/gb/en/_popups/freelander2.htm?route=_gb_en_Vehicles_overview@__link__GraphicPromo_2 like a baby RR sport, we are thinking of trading in the Scooby for one and holding on to the Disco

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ORIGINAL: 05LandRover

I was raised on Fords, so I like it.

Freelanders only have a 16.9 gallon tank. What does a disco have?

Not sure on the tank size but we do aprox 800km between fill ups on a 97 300Tdi
only get 500km from my MG but then it has a mustang engine in it :)

The Meek may inherit the earth, but soccer Mom's seem to be inheritting the market.

mine does great off road, and these new ones will have terrain response, so it'll be better than mine

we were invited to the dealership when the freelander 2 was officially launced and we had a test drive in the 2.2 td4, the weather was awfull, it was pourin down but the freelander 2 seemed so capable and it seemed very safe inside even at above 80mph on drenched roads it was acting like a hot summers day. interior is very nice as we were in the top spec HSE model but the interior on lesser models looks a bit.. weird