Despite all of the ownership fears at the present with Jaguar and Land Rover, it would seem that the both companies are still fully committed in bringing out some new quality models which will definitely get the pulses racing of some Range Rover driver who want something slight smaller, and of course at the same time those Freelander owners who are looking for something a little larger.
The new Land Rover slips nicely in between the two models, which will open up a new market for the company to enter, that of the BMW X1 and the Audi Q5, which is something that Land Rover has never done before, it has always had models that were too high too low to bother the Germans giants.
Naturally there is still little known about the basis of the vehicle and what sort of model range they will be having. Basically we can think of it as a sort of cross between the Freelander and it bigger and much more sophisticated brother the Range Rover, which has really changed the market itself over the past few years with models that put all of the others to shame.
The new Land Rover model will be launched possibly as the Freelander Sport sometime in 2010.
Source [Auto Express]
Mr Butterscotch says
March 19, 2008 at 6:20 pmOne would hope it is a little more reliable than the Discovery… For that matter, unless they’ve worked on the engines I’m surprised they haven’t gone for something much smaller indeed. Maybe it’s that overseas contingent keeping Land Rover sales afloat.