From £20 935 (about R296 000). It'll be in SA early next year. 180km/h, 0-100km/h 10.9sec, 7.53 litres/100km official average. Tough, but not too tough. That was the design philosophy behind Land ...

Four-wheel drives belong off-road. They don't belong in the city. People drive SUVs in an urban setting, of course. The broad-brush SUV-hater will lump them all together as Chelsea tractors, but it's ...

Computer says "No" or, at least, the automotive equivalent: " Transmission fault". How many Land Rover owners have sat and stared in impotent fury at that message, I wonder? The man from Land Rover ...

Land Rover started the production of their most fuel-efficient vehicle, the Freelander 2 TD4_e. The first vehicle of this type was produced at the Jaguar Land Rover factory in Halewood today, March 17 ...

The upgraded Freelander 2 will feature the technology that switches off the engine when stationary. Like most stop-start applications, it will only be available in the manual transmission, but Land ...

A BOXY SUV doesn’t ordinarily fit the tag "fuel efficient”. Most, even the smaller ones, are beaten at the bowser by passenger car equivalents. However Land Rover’s new entry-level Freelander 2 TD4_e ...

Never a decent traffic jam when you really need one, is there? I'm in central London in rush hour, desperately hunting for a decent globule of congestion to try out the Freelander TD4_e's stop-start ...

Four-wheel drives belong off-road. They don't belong in the city. People drive SUVs in an urban setting, of course. The broad-brush SUV-hater will lump them all together as Chelsea tractors, but it's ...

Few brands can match Land Rover’s off-road heritage. But with green issues becoming more of a concern, no firm has more at stake. Bosses are working hard to minimise the environmental impact of the ...

No doubt the original Land Rover Freelander was a good idea; a down-sized and urbanised iteration of an iconic four-wheel drive. It had chunky good looks inside and out and quite attractive pricing.