Is the Land Rover Freelander a real Land Rover? A look at my new car

[equaliser]

I have done 190000 miles in the 2006 TD4 facelift from UK to Kosovo return five times, never had a major problem, never got stuck. Winter / summer Snow floods. Serviced every 6000 miles, 10W40 fully synthetic Oil.
It is now classed as a herritage vehicle in the British motor museum. Not many are given this classification from the Museum. Going up in value now.

[wild_rover]

I love your enthusiasm, nice one, I have a Freelander 2.0 diesel auto, I love it

[darren]

Very under-rated LR, that can hold its own off road. My TD4 has 130k on it, fully working in every aspect. Goes anywhere (and everywhere)!

[antonyfarmer]

The front door cards was ment to be done but ran out of fabric and I spent most weekends cleaning it to keep it well looked after. the stickers with the 140 on are different Freelander groups members number. Can't wait to see what you do with with her

[nicholasdavis]

There's something really nice about that. Looks a very clean example.

[richardealden]

Hi 😀 I have a 3 door Freelander, and absolutely love it 😍 .
I exceeds my expectations of it by a country mile .
To be honest, I was worried about the so called reliability problems, but after 6 months ownership and roughly 8, 000 miles, reliability has been great, even considering it is an old car now 😀

[ettinold]

Haven't these MK1 Freelanders aged really well? I think they are such a neat piece of design. I would love a completely original early one.

[mohdsalihakaseaman]

I have this same version I don't worry about bad road, Lots of respect to Land Rovers👋

[LotCARS]

I'm glad your hiatus has worked so well! The Land Rover does have something going for it, it's not a Hilux Shark Rescue Edition for starters.... Could it be a Wurzels themed edition? A Harry's Farm tribute? A Camel Trophy lookalike?.. What will you surprise us with Geoff?

[fatkev]

I've always wanted the 2 door version with the removeable rear roof section and the diesel engine... rip out the rear seats and just have a handy silly pick up thing with a fabric cover.

[janegerrard]

I have a "real" Landrover and also a Freelander 1. The Defender obviously wins on towing and load carrying and really rough terrain but the Freelander easily wins on snow and ice, slippery fields etc. and you can drive it down the motorway without going deaf.

[pistonhedd]

Lovely lookin' motor there for it's age, and obviously not been abused (which is rare nowadays). Mods on it look similar to what I have on mine, especially the noisy mud terrains 😁

[TonyBlews]

Had mine for 5 years, its cost more in tax than repairs. Use it every day. Last week I had to go through 2 floods to do a drop off.

[thekidmans]

That's me looking at freelanders on eBay you Geoff!

[alanfaultless]

Land Rover is Solihull not castle Bromwich. That’s the jaguar plant. The freelander was built in Halewood though.

[rmo]

I had one of these and they're more capable than they're given credit for BUT the exhaust is very exposed from the mid section to the back box and it's not hard to rip the whole thing off if you're not careful.

[equaliser]

I got the TD4 Station Wagon, 200, 000 miles now, serviced every 5000 miles, no problems, now a classic and shooting up in price, I just did 5000 miles around Europe, had the front bearings changed on return, they were the original ones fitted at time of production. 400 miles to a tank of diesel, parked in numerous tessla bays just for a laugh.

[malcolmyoung]

A year ago I was two years into a rebuild/restoration/FML kind of scenario...bought a TD4 for my daughter(two kids/one on the way) looked beautiful but had every 'malady' you could ever imagine as a TD4 Freelander 1 owner could have. Anyhoo fixed all that shit for it to just fail a MOT on a loose steering wheel..and a soft spot on the rear of the passenger side sill..although it wasn't 'just' a small hole and when I start digging I make Rio Feckin' Tinto look like rank amatuers...so the pressure was on to get it fixed..3 years later...my daughter decided 'feck this' and bought a Volvo C90...she needed the extra room as she now has 5 kids..again..FML...anyhoo after such extravagance on her part I have cracked on and I'm now nearing completion of said project.. Welding..yeah I've done that bit..but it will be my car...so who gives you know...looking forwards to being slagged off by every Land Rover owner who doesn't have aFreelander..

[abdallahelias]

I have the 5-door 2.0Di just addicted to it is the most average car in history it's not SUV but not cross over but not sidan yet not a city car don't look stupid but also not lame its the best car in the world yet economical and offroad-ability its just perfect

[stevecharlesworth]

My td4 has its querks, rear door window, prop shaft etc, but never missed a beat,