just come back from a land rover experience day at Skipton with the wife, great day and learnt a lot about how to use the car both on and off road.

Would recommend any owner has a go and ive just booked for another in a disco in january  freelander 2 SE black and beige - now sold

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I am going to Rockingham Castle on the 10th of November. Should be good fun!  LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
LOT (Lord of Time) - University of Gallifrey

We just done the One in Dunkeld on Friday. It was most informative. I might never need to do any of the things the instructor showed us, but knowing the car can do it gives me more cofidence.

The day was the BEST thing a newbie to Freelander owning could have.

Booked in at Honiton on the 20th November. Looking forward to it.

I did the half day at Honiton, had a great time and very informative too.

I was at Dunkeld (nr Perth) in January, lots of deep snow, hard packed snow and ice. Instructor was brilliant and had FL2 doing what I previously would not have attempted in a Defender.
Some pics in my gallery.
Hope to have a return visit as have ordered a new SD GS. All FL2's (3) Gone
2011 Mercedes C180 CGI Gone
FL2 GS Auto SD with heated leather, factory tints, alloy spare and a few other bits.

My wife and I did Honiton the other week after a heavy downpour over night, it was great and the FL2 did everything the RR and Disco did and effortlessly too, I never imagined it would handle the wet slippery steep gradients so easily (up and down) with the cruise control adding an extra benefit, so much less hassle than the earlier 4x4 LR's I've had. My wife really enjoyed herself , (I surprised her with - okay you go first ) and she did me proud by not backing out of some really steep drops.

Honiton rocks !

M.

Doin' another one in Jan, Disco 4 this time. Probably a bad move as it will make we want one even more and I can't afford it!

Just got back from Rockingham Castle and it was great.

I went round in a brand new 60 plate SD4 HSE in silver. We did on and off road driving and here are my thoughts.

On road

Still don't like the new shape as much and although the car is quicker with the higher powered engine, I did not like it. It revved too much and was too jerky. Even the instructor said he and his colleagues thought the lower powered version was better because there is too much power in a car of that size, just not necessary was his view and I agree.

Off road

Unbelieveable. I could not come to terms with what it could handle and this was on normal tyres. The bloke said that when I went up one really slippery hill at the first attempt, it had taken the Disco 4 seven attempts to get up because it weighs so much. Apparently where it loses to discos etc on ground clearance issues, it beats them elsewhere because they are so heavy. I was a good driver too because I listened to him. He told me that far too many people turn up with big egos and just crash .

Finally he told me how poor the freelanders rivals are in the rough stuff and how one guy destroyed his BMW X5 on the axle twister

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