29-01-2011, 04:15am
Hi guys, was driving home today and a Freelander 2 passed me and for the first time I thought, hang on why have I not done a comparison with the Evoque. The wheelbase is identical so scaling an image is easy and make it extremely accurate. Only issue I had was I could not find a side on picture of a Freelander with 20" wheels.
As you can see they are almost identical if you take in to account the 145mm length difference is the bumpers on the Freelander, 4500 vs 4355mm.
When you read the spec's for the FL2 that are almost identical to the BBR, six speed auto, only thing that is slightly bigger is the Wheel track front and rear on the BBR which makes me think the width 1894mm on wiki may be wrong as the FL2 is 2005mm (mirrors folded). Other spec's that match are wading depth at 500mm, Rear seats down is 1570mm vs 1580mm on BBR and the rear doors line up in the comparison photo. Interestingly the FL2 states 915mm Seats up, we can therefore assume that the BBR will be similar. The LR2 has 755L loadspace seats up vs 575L on the BBR but the BBR has a raked rear window so that is most probably the difference, seats down it is 1670 vs 1445L so again the extra roof height could count for this.
So off to the dealership to take a FL2 for a drive, that should at least give me an idea of the ride etc.
Cheers
As you can see they are almost identical if you take in to account the 145mm length difference is the bumpers on the Freelander, 4500 vs 4355mm.
When you read the spec's for the FL2 that are almost identical to the BBR, six speed auto, only thing that is slightly bigger is the Wheel track front and rear on the BBR which makes me think the width 1894mm on wiki may be wrong as the FL2 is 2005mm (mirrors folded). Other spec's that match are wading depth at 500mm, Rear seats down is 1570mm vs 1580mm on BBR and the rear doors line up in the comparison photo. Interestingly the FL2 states 915mm Seats up, we can therefore assume that the BBR will be similar. The LR2 has 755L loadspace seats up vs 575L on the BBR but the BBR has a raked rear window so that is most probably the difference, seats down it is 1670 vs 1445L so again the extra roof height could count for this.
So off to the dealership to take a FL2 for a drive, that should at least give me an idea of the ride etc.
Cheers