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Car tested: 2012 Land Rover Freelander 2 HSE
Price OTR Mumbai: Rs. 45,43,184/-
Land Rover’s first vehicle to be locally assembled in India is the Freelander 2, which is the entry level vehicle from the the British marque. The Freelander 2 is priced very aggressively owing to the fact that it is brought in through the CKD route. The Freelander is a scaled down version of the Range Rover but doesn’t look all that small. Now powered by an a new 2.2-litre diesel engine, the Freelander 2 is a competent rival to the BMW X3 and Audi Q5, or is it? We find out. [click to continue…]
When Tata Motors started assembling the Land Rover Freelander 2 in India, it reduced the prices for the base SE variant to Rs. 33.89 lakhs (ex-showroom, Mumbai). Soon rising input costs plagued the company leading to a price hike, resulting in the Freelander 2 SE costing Rs. 35.52 lakhs (ex-showroom, Mumbai). Now in order to push sales of the entry level Land Rover, the company has reduced the prices of the Freelander 2 SE by Rs. 1.64 lakhs, offering the SUV for an introductory price of Rs. 33.88 lakhs. The Land Rover Freelander 2 HSE is priced at Rs. 40.40 lakhs (ex-showroom, Mumbai). This pricing won’t stay for a long time as the depreciating Rupee won’t help Tata Motors in sustaining this pricing for long. [click to continue…]
Jaguar Land Rover has officially opened its first assembly plant in India. The plant, located in Pune will assemble the Land Rover Freelander 2 from CKD units imported from JLR’s Halewood manufacturing plant in Liverpool, UK. The Land Rover Freelander is available in two variants – TD4 SE Automatic and SD4 SE Automatic. Prices start at Rs. 33.89 lakhs (ex-showroom, Mumbai) and the company’s engineers and managers have moved to India from the UK. JLR will also use the plant to export to other countries and Tata Motors will use technology from JLR on it own vehicles. The company will open 14 more dealers in 12 major cities in the near future. [click to continue…]
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