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Motor vehicle
Land Rover Freelander
Land Rover Freelander 2 Dynamic SD4
Overview
Manufacturer
Land Rover
Production
October 1997 – January 2015
Assembly
Halewood Body & Assembly, Halewood, United Kingdom Pune, India Changshu, Jiangsu, China Aqaba Assembly Plant, Jordan
Body and chassis
Class
Compact SUV (1997–2006) Compact crossover SUV (2006–2015)
Layout
Transverse front-engine, all-wheel drive or four-wheel drive
Chronology
Successor
Land Rover Discovery Sport (5-door version) Range Rover Evoque (3-door version)
The Land Rover Freelander is a series of four-wheel-drive vehicles that was manufactured and marketed by Land Rover[1] from 1997 to 2015. Initially a compact SUV built on a body-on-frame chassis, the second generation model, sold from 2007 to 2015 in North America and the Middle East as the LR2 and in Europe as the Freelander 2, transitioned to a car-based platform which placed it into the compact crossover SUV class, and was developed alongside the Volvo XC60, the Volvo S80 and the third generation Ford Mondeo. The name 'Freelander' is derived from the combination of 'Freedom' and 'Lander'.
After having built exclusively body-on-frame 4WD vehicles for half a century, the first generation Freelander was the brand's first model to use monocoque (unibody) structures,[2] and was offered in three- and five-door body options, including a semi soft-top. The second generation (2007–2015) dropped all two-door options, leaving only a five-door estate car-like body, and – after 62 years – became the brand's first ever to offer a two-wheel drive option (as of 2010).
After a five-year hiatus, the two-door Freelanders were succeeded by the three-door versions of the Range Rover Evoque in 2011, and the five-door generation 2 was replaced by the Discovery Sport in 2015, the nameplate spanning two generations and less than eighteen years.[3]
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