Land Rover Freelander LR2 test drive since 2009 SUV
Land Rover Freelander II in Sport configuration
Each manufacturer considers it his duty to insert the word sport at least somewhere. Write it on the machine gun selector. Ground on a round black button placed on the front panel. Embroider on the headrest of leather seats. Nice on the thresholds, speedometer, tachometer, steering wheel and trunk doors. This is considered fashionable and supposedly helps to sell goods. But who? I was always interested in who exactly pecks at this bait.
Return patency
There is a well-known European-American analogy with Porsche. Cool sports cars are most often bought by men who experience the syndrome of the outgoing train. This, you know, is a state when a simple but ruthless thought presses you tirelessly: a little more, and you will leave great sex. If you have a similar diagnosis, but there is no money for Porsche, you take sport no matter what brand. The main thing is to get a feeling of youth, which has long been gone.
In youth, after all, there is never money to buy what I dreamed about. Then the income is growing, but they do not lag behind the expenses on children, the cottage and repair so that everything is like people. And finally, free money appears in a mature (or even pre -retirement) age. It was then that our slightly wilted macho and take into circulation land rover marketers.
Dude, they turn to this character in the same way, in a young manner, we have for you, like, a cool option. The sports version of the coolest crossover, a lifetime thing. What is in the kit? Yes, what, damn it, the difference. Well, there, others, a body kit, disks. What kind of business do you need? Be sure, Cool.
Something like this can be sold by the sports complexation of Frelander 2. A reasonable person who has preserved, like, reason, a plastic body kit, because he spoils one of the strongest advantages of the English crossover geometric cross -country ability. And the wheels with the seats is a thing for a big amateur. A 2.2 liter diesel is undoubtedly, in itself, the beautiful does not change in any way. The box and brakes are the same. But the price is new from 1,439,000 rubles. For the usual version, they ask for 334 thousand less.
On tram tracks
In fact, Freelander 2 is a unique car. Being essentially a crossover, it has cross -country ability comparable to SUV. This effect can be achieved due to small overhangs, competent electronic assistants and a rod of 400 Newton meters. At the same time, he has wonderful smoothness. I appreciated it not only off -road, but also on tram tracks.
Matter: Land Rover Frelander 2
And, by the way, he has a sports regime in an automatic gearbox. It is included in the transmission of the automatic transmission selector to the left, into a manual switch zone. The box immediately comes to life and holds high speeds longer. To overtake in the city and integrate into the stream becomes much easier. You quickly get used to this regime and do not use ordinary. But this is not bad, because fuel consumption does not increase much. I have an English crossover in a rather strict mode ate a little more than ten liters.
So for you, the boys of the boys are ashamed to tell the boys and she must eat no less than the tag in a love! In the way, with sports, they screwed up, even the consumption of sagging.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
Source: Magazine 4x4 [August /2010]
