Land Rover builds 250,000th Freelander 2

Land Rover celebrates Freelander milestone as second generation car surpasses 250,000 units.

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By Tom Phillips

28th March 2011

It’s all smiles at Land Rover’s Halewood plant on Merseyside as the factory celebrates building its 250,000th Freelander. The milestone model is a 2.2-litre TD4 Diesel GS in Fuji White and is destined for a customer who lives in Scotland.

Production of the Freelander 2 began at Halewood in 2007, and today is the day that the landmark car will roll off the production line.

Land Rover is also celebrating a growing demand for the Freelander 2, as the firm has posted sales that are up 22 per cent for the year to date – April 2010 to February 2011, when compared with the same 11 month period in 2009/2010.

As well as its success with the Freelander, Halewood is already hard at work building the first Evoque five-door and Evoque Coupe models which will both run down the Merseyside production line.