Don’t get me wrong, the things that I like about my Landie are too many to publish here. It’s much easier to list the few things that I wish were designed differently:

1. The lack of ashtray or a place I can put the little rubbish during a trip: chewing gum wrappers, Minty wrappers, receipts for fuel, etc.
2. The hard edge of the dashboard, where my left knee rests.
3. The weird angled shape of the Sun Visor that influence my sense of balance and composition.
Apart of that, I do like everything else about my Landie.

Am I alone in this grumbling?

get a wood company armrest with a cubby inside, or a LR premium cubby hole cover for that hole behind the handbrake.

put a bit of pipe insultion over the offending knee scratching place. I think LR once did a cushion thing for this area


get sunglasses and a stick on windscreen sun strip (green with you and your ladies names on)

or




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Love it 'But' Three things i don't like

Lack of iPod integration & phone not via Sat Nat screen
Fuel Consumption
Sorry cannot think of third !!!!!
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Dear Chicken George,

Great advice!
I embrace your world’s solutions for the tiny inconveniences, I already grew used to.
I was looking for other grumbling souls.
The power be with you…

The general lack of storage space has always been a minus unfortunatly.

For example, for us with a spare wheel: which if had been designed to be retained the other way round there would have been a large storage space available on the inside of the wheel - as many other cars have.

Would also have liked some more sensibly designed storage space accesable from the drivers seat. The cubby hole behind the handbrake is far better WITHOUT the cover, but later models had a "premium cover" on it which then restricts what it can be used for.

However the Freely does have some useless storage - what the are the pockets on the front of the front seats designed for?
VESKO - Maybe you can use them for rubbish and used chewing-gum mine just fill up with crumbs which I find when occasionally vacuuming the inside ........
.......and, who uses the built in holders INSIDE the glove compartment for coins and a pen and somethings I have no idea what they should hold  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc.

AndyC wrote:

However the Freely does have some useless storage - what the are the pockets on the front of the front seats designed for?

Maps and other things like leaflets

didn't get them on my2010 car though

RRS has two glove boxes, a big cubby in the armrest, a slidey cover thingy next to the gear lever, an ashtray and two cubbies in each front door, one in each rear.

everything is tidied away but can I ever find it again

oh and the silly kangaroo pouches in the seat fronts too, also a big space behind the rear seats useful for carrying shopping luggage, bodies etc.

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RRS has .........

get a Freelander again, you know it makes sense :thumbsup:

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taztastic wrote:

RRS has .........

get a Freelander again, you know it makes sense

NO

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npinks wrote:

Maps and other things like leaflets

There is not room for maps - and they go in the pockets BEHIND the fornt seats anyway - nope the front pockets are for crumbs and sweet papers or even maybe .......  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc.

chicken george wrote:

and an under boot area for the merchandise

And so has the Evoque, but we are talking about the Freelander 2 here and not RR's  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc.

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Three things I don’t like about my Landie


1) it was purchased for the wife and not me

2) I have to ask to use it!

3) Its nicer than my pick-up truck Black FL2
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