babyRR.com - The Range Rover Evoque Forum

I've just spoke to a friend who works at Halewood and asked how the buids are going.

I was told that the plant is set up to manufacture 300 vehicles a shift when running at full capacity. This is split 3 Evoques to 1 Freelander, although there are plans to increase this to 350 per shift or put another way 700 cars a day.

Currently the factory is running somewhere in the order of 60% due to the relative newness of the process, some sourcing dificulties and the fact that they are taking a huge amount of time in the quality control stage to be extra careful. In fairness these issues were always factored in.

Just thought that it would be useful to let everyone know what's going on.

I'm looking forward to visiting next week.

Well their carefulness with QC is well seen in the final car, mine is superbly put together and it is the first Land Rover product I have owned that has arrived with no trace of a squeak, creak, groan, distant vibration hidden behind a panel somewhere, wind whistle or water leak. I am most impressed with Halewoods product - build quality is definitely up there with the best.

I'm not sure if its an urban myth but it used to be said that the very last escorts that came out of halewood were very well built as the production shifts were being trained on quality prior to the build of the X-Type.

As a north west lad I'm made up that Halewood has been saved from what might have been in store for it if it had remained a ford production facility.