Was looking at an article (website noted below if you want to read the whole thing) written about the Nissan X Trail and it included a paragraph which I just had to include.
www.whatsonbristol.co.uk/reviews/nissan_x_trail.ht...l
"The X-Trail is up against Land Rover's great compromise car, the horrid and woefully badly built Freelander. I'd rather have my liver torn out with a rusty hook than be seen in a Freelander, dead or alive. All of which makes the X-Trail a far better proposition"
Regards,
KB.
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Strangely I feel instant empathy and regard for the author even if he is called Zog Ziegler.
M.
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Indeed, it displayed all the style, wit and originality of a true 18 year-old, being refreshingly free of cliched side-swipes and not at all the work of a spotty geek
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Morris,
You've got a Freelander, haven't you. 8-)
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Nearly but not quite, Mark.
In the course of my work have driven three Freelanders in my time, a 1.8, a Td4, and a V6 ES three-door, but never owned one. Every single one developed a fault (two were wiper failures, one was a water leak), so I concur completely with the comments about reliability; new Range Rover excepted, anything which comes out of Solihull makes me shiver.
But so does drippy, lazy, casually insulting journalism.
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KB,
Love this bit
"There's a very small school of thought, led by yours truly, that insists that HR-V means Hormone Replacement Vehicle."
There do seem to be a sizable number of, errr, shall be say "older" people with these. I put it down to them going to the dealers with the intention of trading up their Accords or Civics and getting flogged one of these!
My uncle who was 75+, who had never knowingly driven over 45mph (a real menace to motorway traffic) invited me over to have a look at his new civic.
I went expecting to see a nice standard car, perhaps with leather and maybe a couple of toys.
Oh no. When I get there, outside is this gleaming V-tec, 16v GTI type thing with low profiles, spoilers the lot!
They certainly saw him coming.
Come to think of it - I never did get to give the "Italian tune-up" it must have needed after he'd had it a while!
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