The LR range is complete with the new Defender and a Disco Sport. All posh, expensive, modern looking models.
However, isn't there a feeling that a new entry level car would fit into the range and boost sales?

I'm thinking something along the lines of the FL1 in style and philosophy, and no longer than 4.3m like the Evoque.
For the price, we might not expect a low range gearbox (although look at the Jimny).
Starting at below 30,000 pounds for psychological value. Rugged, fun, urban but off-road, like a Jimny but in a LR mode.
And called the new Freelander...

What do you think? Any rumours?

I was watching a TV programme about the "Yorkshire Shepherdess" Amanda Owen and noticed how they bought a small pony and got it in the back of their Defender to take home. I somehow can't see anyone doing that in the new Defender, too plush. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

mrsimon4x4 wrote:

The LR range is complete with the new Defender and a Disco Sport. All posh, expensive, modern looking models.
However, isn't there a feeling that a new entry level car would fit into the range and boost sales?

I'm thinking something along the lines of the FL1 in style and philosophy, and no longer than 4.3m like the Evoque.
For the price, we might not expect a low range gearbox (although look at the Jimny).
Starting at below 30,000 pounds for psychological value. Rugged, fun, urban but off-road, like a Jimny but in a LR mode.
And called the new Freelander...

What do you think? Any rumours?

My cousin in Nairobi has one like that. Not sure if it impresses the neighbours though even though it once went on the East Africa Safari Rally.

 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

Tell him he got a flat




 If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.

Looks more like a bungalow to me

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mrsimon4x4 wrote:

Rumour has it that LR are producing a new Range Rover sub £25,000 with all the badges and outward signs of a posh, expensive car but it does not have an engine or transmission and can't go anywhere. It is marketed at the snob market to park on their drive to impress the neighbours.

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Baby Defender priced at £25k code L860. Mules should be out and about next year. 21MY Defender 90 S 3.0 D200

Still reckon JLR shot themselves in the foot by not making the DC100 swb- especially the 2 door open top sport version as a sub £25k entry level vehicle . I reckon if they had just gone ahead and produced it as a Freelander 1 sized vehicle with the DC100 looks, it would have been a winner. However, they kept on touting it as a Defender replacement (Defender Concept 100). It was obvious very early on from the feedback that design was never going to be accepted as the Defender replacement. BUT it would have been a great little Freelander 1 3 door replacement - something the brand is missing. I loved mine and wished they had made a 3 door Freelander 2.

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What's missing from the Land Rover range?

Beam axles?  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)

j77 wrote:

Baby Defender priced at £25k code L860. Mules should be out and about next year.

I think that this is Autocar / Landrover latest rumour (this week says it's due out in 2021).
It seems to be based on a rebadged Tata Harrier (retail in India about £18,000) , or at least its platform, which is in turn based on a 'cost reduced, but modernised' old Discovery Sport (Freellander 2?) chassis.

Interesting article in this weeks Autocar, image looks like a rounded DC100.


 FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 76k+ miles) (MY2015)

Unfortunately, Autocar now complete directly with AutoExpress in the “invent a Photoshop rehash of existing Land Rover pictures and making a story up around it” stakes.

IanMetro wrote:

j77 wrote:

Baby Defender priced at £25k code L860. Mules should be out and about next year.

I think that this is Autocar / Landrover latest rumour (this week says it's due out in 2021).
It seems to be based on a rebadged Tata Harrier (retail in India about £18,000) , or at least its platform, which is in turn based on a 'cost reduced, but modernised' old Discovery Sport (Freellander 2?) chassis.

Interesting article in this weeks Autocar, image looks like a rounded DC100.

I'd buy one of those. The Land Rover Juke 🤣 Learned to drive in 2011.
Bought a Micra - great little car
"Upgraded" to Kia Sportage - hated it
Proper upgrade to FL2 TD4 GS 60 reg Facelift - tailgate paint issues, fuel gauge rewire, transfer box failure at 36k miles, clutch at 60k
Reconditioned diff at 70k ish
Sold at 84k and now on a DS. Terribly unreliable.
Sold DS for a 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. Fingers crossed....
Sold Outlander for a 2014 SD4 SE Tech because I’m mental