Best:

1. Engine/auto box combination.
2. Towing ability.
3. Comfort/ease of use/value (got around your '3' limit )

And an extra thumbs up for letting me walk away unscathed when some burk ploughed head on into me in an FL1!

Worst:

1. Boot a bit awkward
2. Ground clearance
3. Lights...after driving my GTI with xenons I thought something was wrong with the freely! Mine: 2012 Golf GTI Edition 35
Family's: 2009 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Auto, Stornoway

Yorkshire - God's County

Best
Engine / Drivetrain
Comfort
Off-Road ability

Worst
Car Audio - Even bottom of the range Korean Cars have better units
Lack of Storage
Cheap arsed Sat-Nav they put in the Australian Models

Best:
Driving position - height
Heated windscreen
Feeling of invincibility

Worst
EXPENSIVE service / parts (in Sweden at least)
Short seats (no support for legs)
Boot space without any stowing pockets - everything ends up loose in the trunk... It's never too late to learn something new...

Sorry to interupt the flow on this slightly, but I've used estate cars as business load carriers for 3 decades and (with the exception of my old Citroen XM estates - the best estate car ever built, bar none!), these are hugely practical load carriers. Their biggest advantages are the the square nature of the load space and height that is no longer available in any conventional estate car (MPV's and micro MPV's excluded). Its suspension is also remarkable well adapted to heavy loads. I'm not sure why it's getting such a hard time here

Hi Tigger,

I think the Freelander boot looks smaller than it really is. Maybe because the car looks big and bulbous you expect a cavern at the rear. But it is not a huge boot.

We had a Mondeo estate and it had a larger boot, not as high but much longer and wider. So we were a little nerous about going on holiday and getting everything in. But a full height load barrier liberated the height and we got by, admittedly with one case less than in the Mondeo. In the end we were surprised how much we could fit in, which is why I say it is bigger than it looks. Rear seat space is also less than the Mondeo's. Loading baby seats in and out with kids, etc. showed up a difference for us. Which as it is approx. 20cm shorter is to be expected.

None of these are show stoppers as we bought the Fl2 and are very pleased with it. There are many areas it spanks the Mondeo, including comfort and low down grunt of the diesel, security in bad weather, plus tyres are far cheaper

Cheers Harvey

Best

1 High driving position
2 Happy to go off road in it
3 Comes with lots as standard, unlike many other brands of car.

Worst

1 Husband keeps borrowing it
2 Its not self cleaning
3 I don't get to drive it often enough/ for long enough!  2011 Freelander 2 SD4 XS Santorini Black with privacy glass.

Best

1. Ride height / Seat comfort (upgraded to Premium)
2. Load / Boot space - one of the main reasons for buying
3. On and Off road capabilities - not that I've gone off road, but know it can, and also is a very capable all weather vehicle

Worst

1. Auto gearbox - jerky changes coming down the gears and often lets the revs drop too far
2. Bump / Torque steer - especially under braking, might need alignment checking
3. Vehicle width - a plus and a minus, but on our narrow roads NS paintwork is a bit scratched from hedges etc, and requires more awareness, it's over a foot wider than my previous car

best = resale value so you can sell it and by a mans car  At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

chicken george wrote:

best = resale value so you can sell it and by a drug dealers car instead of a proper Range Rover

 LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
LOT (Lord of Time) - University of Gallifrey

BEST.

1, To Just Drive IT,
2, Very Good in the Snow.
3, Heated seats & Screen, on those cold morning.
4, Very Comfortable


WORST

1, The Clutch is very Poor.
2, 37.7 MPG !!! ( only if you drive it on a long run)
3, The boot could be bigger.
4, Sat Nav is poor.

Would buy another one very possible, but it would have to be an Auto. Which means more poor MPG !!!

Best
Good visibility.
Good in the snow.
Decent boot space.
Decent for long distance cruising

Worst

Poor green light dial visibility at night
Poor lumbar seat support on the S model (manual seats)
Poor mpg, especially around town Landy has now gone.

BEST
1) When converted makes the best commercial on the road.
2) Ride quality when loaded.
3) Torque

WORST
1) Stupid 'key' slot that pops out without warning.
2) Dated dash cluster.
3) Stop/start that turns on automatically - should be selectable to turn on.

I noticed yesterday it switched off a cold engine.

sparkyfletch, there is a button labelled eco on the centre console that switches stop/start off LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
LOT (Lord of Time) - University of Gallifrey

....yes I know that Doc, but it always catches me out and irritates me that I should have to opt out each journey to something I would never have chosen to opt into!
Just make it user selectable - job done.

BEST
1) Land Rover ride height and comfort
3) SD4 performance
2) Strong body/paint - might just be luck (and I hope I haven't jinxed myself) - but statistically speaking going from 6 noticeable carpark dings in my last car in space of a year, to none in two years with the FL2 is significant.
3) Whatever LR have done to stop windscreen misting up every time it rains - and I do not even have heated windscreens

WORST
1) Price of Diesel
2) Material on dashboard - got a few streaks which wont shift
3) Headlights (missed the HID in my last car)