Land Rover has put plans for a seven-seat Freelander on hold as it concentrates on implementing its new business plan that calls for sales to rise to around 200,000.
The seven seater was due to surface next year, and as recently as spring this year Land Rover was planning to show a concept of the car, codenamed L486. But a company source said the vehicle had been postponed, "we have other priorities," said our source
Instead, the firm will concentrate on the development of the LRX, which will be launched as a £30,000 Range Rover in 2012. The first test mules have already been seen on the Nurburgring
Land Rover has been working on a sales forecast of around 70,000 units for the seven seat Freelander, the same as the original forecast for the LRX.
Julian Rendell
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Re: Seven-seat Freelander on hold
Well that is bad news, you obviously have had some bad luck with the brand and through your personal experience would not go back fair enough, I could go on about how things have improved but am not going to attempt to be any more of an advert for the brand.
I feel the same about Ford, have owned both a Mondeo and Focus and they have let me down to the extent that I will never buy another Ford especially after delaing with their 'supposed' customer service team, so I guess I should disagree and say that Ford are 'crap' and make the 'worst cars' on the road.
Re: Seven-seat Freelander on hold
I have had 6 of the rubish before I came to my senses!
Head gaskets, electrics, 3 new engines, 2 new gearboxes, windows never work I could go on and on but as you no doubt work for Land Rover no need as you already know this but won't admit it!
Look at the reliability stats on the net and the problems with LR on google search to prove how crap they are!
Toyota, Jeep and Nissan are all much better!
Re: Seven-seat Freelander on hold
Am disappointed that the 7 seat variant of Freelander has been put to one side for the moment as it would have contributed to further sales of the brand but I understand that offering a second 7 seater is deemed to compete with the lower end models of Discovery 4 and just after its launch I guess the gloss needs to be firmly placed on this product due to budget constraints and commitments on new model investment.
I can confirm that JLR have not had any state aid and have recently raised funds through private investment which must, (IMO) mean that someone believes that the company has a future and is likely to regain profit from the investment.
Can you tell me where you get the impression that Land Rover are the 'worst car' on the road? I am mighty eager to hear your reasons why.