Anyone planning on a Tiguan?

[DionM]

I would walk next door to the Land Rover dealership and get a Freelander 2 - THAT sets the benchmark, not the CR-V - that's a soccer mum's car mate!

I had lots of fun offroading my Freelander (plenty of battle scars underneath) and you're right, it is the benchmark compact off-roader. Howveer, mine was unreliable and I got rid of it due to faults not fixed (massive loss of power on take-off, and poor cold starting) even after 4.5yrs of ownership from new. The long list of things fixed in it's 45000km life included a new gearbox and new engine ...

[gerhard]

Ha Ha, the Freelander sure sets the benchmark

Nothing else is as expensive to run, and nothing is as unreliable....

Don't know if that still applies to the current models of LR (and can't afford to risk finding out), but maybe from now onwards you will be able to say Tata to unreliable vehicles

[jb747]

Freelander. Yep, that's the car that broke down on a test drive. So, I bought a Toyota....