Well after 5 & a half years I have had to lose my favourite car. After my wife had a stroke last year she has never been able to get the handbrake on fully & has always found the Landy too big for her. We are both not getting any younger so decided to look for an automatic that would still be large enough to pull our caravan. In the end (rightly or wrongly) we have gone for a 2litre AWD Ford Kuga.
I would like to thank everyone involved in the Freel2 website, the information available is fantastic & the help I have had from fellow members has been invaluable. I will never forget my time owning this fantastic car.
Best wishes to everyone.
Mike. 2010 GS TD4e manual Lago Grey

Late model Sd4 is auto and has electric hand brake  Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

2014 Orkney grey Freelander SD4 GS.
2004 Zambezi silver Discovery 2 Td5 (Gone)
1963 Surf blue Morris Mini Minor Super de Luxe (my little toy)

Yes Bob but she still finds the car too big & it was a choice of a 4 - 5 year old car with 40k on the clock or a smaller 9 month old Kuga with 9k. 2010 GS TD4e manual Lago Grey

No problem then going from the best Ford (Land Rover) ever built to a Ford.  FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

I was curious enough about the dimensions to check and (purely out of academic interest) the Ford is 1” longer and 3” narrower (excluding mirrors in both cases).

The best of luck with the Kuga, I hope it does the job for you

Best of luck mike with your new car now you can look to more realistic service costs

Thanks guys.  2010 GS TD4e manual Lago Grey

My daughter in law has just traded her Kuga Twin clutch Auto in for an Evoque due to the box slipping on gearchanges. Silver 2009 HSE

Now that is a classic case of “out of the frying pan into the fire”

GlynnB wrote:

My daughter in law has just traded her Kuga Twin clutch Auto in for an Evoque due to the box slipping on gearchanges.