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The cars : Land Rover Freelander

Keith Adams — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:54:11 +0000

It started out as an idea to produce a lifestyle vehicle at the end of the 1980s, but by the time of its announcement nearly a decade later, the Land Rover Freelander was meeting a very real challenge issued by the Japanese. Despite a fair bit of parts-bin engineering, the Freelander emerged as truly capable [...]

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Blog : Why I hate the Land Rover Freelander

Mike Humble — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:42:11 +0000

Mike Humble Part of me feels guilty for writing this article on the Freelander, Land Rover’s baby 4×4. This is, after all, a site in which we cherish our fading British car companies and celebrate some of the great names that once pounded the highways and by-ways of England. But there again, we all differ [...]

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News : Freelander gets a nip ‘n’ tuck for 2013

Keith Adams — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:50:25 +0000

The Land Rover Freelander has received a package of updates for 2013, which its maker hopes will maintain the popularity of its core model range in the post-Evoque era. The facelift majors on the interior, which promises to be more upmarket with ‘premium’ feel. But with styling changes limited to a few minor ones that [...]

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Keith Adams — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:01:30 +0000

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Concepts and prototypes : Freelander

Keith Adams — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:48:04 +0000

Freelander underwent a rather convoluted development programme; it started out as a joint Rover Cars/Land Rover project to produce a vehicle to compete in the emerging “crossover” market, as epitomised by the Suzuki Vitara… The initial projects crystallised into the Rover Oden and Land Rover Pathfinder. It was the latter that survived into maturity, and [...]

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Land Rover : Halewood celebrates production of 250,000th Freelander 2

Clive Goldthorp — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:54:07 +0000

Land Rover employees at the company’s Halewood manufacturing plant on Merseyside are today celebrating an important milestone achievement − the production of the 250,000th Freelander 2. Production of the Freelander 2 began in 2007 and, today, the plant’s 250,000th Freelander 2 will be driven off of the line. Land Rover is also celebrating a growing demand [...]

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Press Report : Land Rover launching Freelander stop-start

Clive Goldthorp — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:04:30 +0000

just-auto.com Editorial Team, 1st December, 2008 An in-house engineering team and two major component suppliers have together developed Land Rover’s new fuel-saving stop-start technology which will be available on manual diesel Freelander models from next May. A Land Rover spokesman said the control system was developed by the automaker’s engineering centre at Gaydon, Warwickshire, while Bosch provided the engine [...]

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Archive : Freelander Does the Business

Keith Adams — Wed, 05 May 1999 10:47:22 +0000

Land Rover has launched a major new derivative of the award-winning permanent four-wheel drive Freelander. Unveiled at the Fleet Motor Show at the NEC, Birmingham, the Freelander Commercial is based on the three-door Hardback model and costs from just £17,300 on the road. Deliveries to customers begin in September. Targeted at major fleets, small businesses [...]

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Archive : BMW looks for Rover return

Keith Adams — Sun, 14 Dec 1997 15:35:17 +0000

New launch needs to make a start on repaying a £2bn investment. David Brierley reports Tomorrow, the Land Rover Freelander goes on sale in Britain. The fourth new model in the 50-year history of the marque, it could signal a crucial turning-point in the troubled history of Rover Group. “The reaction in the press and [...]

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Archive : Big plans for little new Land Rover

Keith Adams — Wed, 16 Oct 1996 17:40:00 +0000

THE INDEPENDENT CHRIS GODSMARK Land Rover is to build a baby-sized four-wheel-drive vehicle and plans to expand production dramatically, the company announced yesterday. The compact Land Rover, one of the first fruits of BMW’s take-over of Rover three years ago, is designed to head off competition from the Japanese in a fast-growing segment of the [...]

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