Good evening truckers....

This is my 1st posting here on Freel2 although I have been a member of Disco3.co.uk for quite a while!

I thought i'd just drop by and leave a little information I picked up today while at my local dealers and the VERY helpful saleman was just handed a LR News Sheet... and he let me see the press release and pic's of the soon to be released new Freelander 2 HST model!?
Now, maybe this isn't news to you knowledgable people out there, but if it is, I thought it good to let you know!

BTW - It will cost £32,000+ and will be available from late Feb/early Mar '08.... and looks just like the RRS HST with very similer body kit and twin 'square' exhausts! Didn't get the engine spec. but sure to be nippy!?

TTFN....

SportBus

(edited due to mistake)

MMMMmmmm HST body kit on the FL2

This will cause a ripple through the RRSport forum

Will it have the same lines as the RRS kit which so many hate  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Land Rover Freelander 2 HST

Is listed as a car for the "MPH"motor show

If anybody is going please get pictures  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

npinks wrote:

MMMMmmmm HST body kit on the FL2

This will cause a ripple through the RRSport forum

Will it have the same lines as the RRS kit which so many hate

Lets see that; I am part of those how hate the RRS HST ; on a FL2… I really love the present FL2  Yuri
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FREELANDER 2 HST TOPS THE RANGE

Gaydon, Warwickshire, 5 February 2008 – Land Rover will introduce a new 'HST' derivative to complete the Freelander 2 range.

On-sale from March 2008, the Freelander 2 HST will be available from £31,990 on the road. Features include a Sports Styling Pack with front and rear bumper aprons, side sill mouldings and a rear roof spoiler. Other enhancements include 19 inch alloy 10-spoke wheels with shadowchrome finish, leather seat facings, privacy glass and metallic paint.

John Edwards, managing director for Land Rover UK commented: "The Freelander 2 HST has an impressive muscular stance when seen on the road. It will undoubtedly be appealing to our customers who require a dramatic visual impact without compromising on practicality."

He added: "In 2007 the Freelander 2 sold over 18,000 units in the UK which helped contribute to sales in the UK exceeding 50,000 last year for the first time in the company's 60 year history."

Photos in my gallery.

well, i'll be bu d. excuse me if i'm wrong, but if you look at my gallery, and using photoshop or other editing software and coloured mine red, is that not the existing bodykit and grill with just a different set of alloys???????? Out with the old (2007 SE)
In with the new (2012 Dynamic with everything). Now also gone.

Wildrover is that a new exhaust or is it a tail pipe piece fitted to the original 07my Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Baltic Blue,Privacy Glass,Ebony black leather,Land rover detachable towbar,S/S Side bars,Climair wind deflectors,Bramble Rash,

wildrover wrote:

well, i'll be bu d. excuse me if i'm wrong, but if you look at my gallery, and using photoshop or other editing software and coloured mine red, is that not the existing bodykit and grill with just a different set of alloys????????

I think you might be on to something there

Stock pile of unused bodykits (I don't see many around ) = Freelander 2 HST

Though is this a new colour? Looks a brighter & more vibrant red than the rimmi red Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

rover60 wrote:

Wildrover is that a new exhaust or is it a tail pipe piece fitted to the original

Saw the new HST at the dealer yesterday

Thought my eyes were playing tricks when I looked at the back

Looks a bit too "Mad Max" for me.....

Saw a Nazca Sand HST I6 in the town centre in Stirling today and then later the same car was in the car park at Morrison's Land Rover. How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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Gone (only a little missed) RRS Tdv6 2.7SE Giverny Green/Aspen
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Snappa & Tim, did it have rectangular tail pipes on the HST you saw? The press releases make no mention of the exhaust but the LR website does, so do the exhausts exit through it rather than under it......like the RRS HST??????

Or is it just the standard sport kit exhaust tails used? If not then I am guessing whilst the front bumper looks to have remained the same maybe the rear is different to allow the exhausts to go through it...

I'm not sure what the HST is supposed to be. Same engine as normal and a rather OTT body kit in my opinion  At work
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Gambba wrote:

Snappa & Tim, did it have rectangular tail pipes on the HST you saw? The press releases make no mention of the exhaust but the LR website does, so do the exhausts exit through it rather than under it......like the RRS HST??????

Or is it just the standard sport kit exhaust tails used? If not then I am guessing whilst the front bumper looks to have remained the same maybe the rear is different to allow the exhausts to go through it...

Gamba do you really expect me to be looking at the rear end of an HST Freelander2 when I'm leaving it for dead in my TDv8 ..................................
I must admit that I never looked as I whizzed passed, or when I saw it again at the dealers. Maybe Charles Hurst's can tell us. On the RRS HST the pipes exit through the rear valance rather than hanging down below the bumper How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
Now driving - RRE Coupe Dynamic Lux Auto with Plus pack, Fuji White, Ebony, SD4 with tow pack
Gone - 2010MY FFRR TDv8 Stornoway and Ivory, Privacy - the pace of a TDv8 RRS, the incomparable grace of a Range Rover
Gone but will be missed- RRS Tdv8 HSE Stornoway Grey with Ebony Leather
Gone (only a little missed) RRS Tdv6 2.7SE Giverny Green/Aspen
Defender 90 County HT in Epsom Green

erm the tail pipe was shiny........

Din't really pay much attention as I agree with Tim, body kit a bit MadMax for me