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Land Rover Freelander

Land Rover Freelander
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The Land Rover Freelander is a series of four-wheel-drive vehicles (some models being front-wheel-drive) that was manufactured and marketed by Land Rover from 1997 to 2015. The second generation was sold from 2007 to 2015 in North America and the Middle East as the LR2 and in Europe as the Freelander 2. The Freelander was sold in both two-wheel and four-wheel drive versions. The name 'Freelander' is derived from the combination of 'Freedom' and 'Lander'. After having built exclusively body-on-frame 4WD vehicles for half a century, the first generation Freelander was the brand's first model to use monocoque (unibody) structures, and was offered in three- and five-door body options, including a semi soft-top. The second generation (2007–2015) dropped all two-door options, leaving only a five-door estate car-like body, and – after 62 years – became the brand's first ever to offer a two-wheel drive option (as of 2010). After a five-year hiatus, the two-door Freelanders were succeeded by the three-door versions of the Range Rover Evoque in 2011, and the five-door generation 2 was replaced by the Discovery Sport in 2015, the nameplate spanning two generations and less than eighteen years.

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On UK roads130,7062025 Q4

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UK vehicles on the road

101,629 licensed and 29,077 SORN (130,706 total) at 2025 Q4.

Year (latest quarter)Vehicles
2014216,941
2015210,937
2016204,139
2017195,687
2018185,544
2019177,218
2020170,503
2021162,417
2022154,465
2023147,037
2024138,316
2025130,706

DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.

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