RE: Callaway Freelander
Monday 5th November 2001
Callaway Freelander
Supercharger and lashings of Chrome
Discussion
I think I would prefer the off-road rally vehicle they showed on Scrapyard challenge yesterday. 5 litre TVR lump powering it. I don't think any of our cars could keep up with it over the same terrain!
Anyone else watch it? I like the Mules mentality in the last two shows. It's got to a bit V8 whether for clearing mines or for climbing a 1 in 2 hill.
Anyone else watch it? I like the Mules mentality in the last two shows. It's got to a bit V8 whether for clearing mines or for climbing a 1 in 2 hill.
Anyway on the freelander. A very nice school runner ! the thing is a 4x4 FFS why lower it 2" and make it go and stop well when you could spend the same money and buy a "real" car. Its horses for courses the Freelander is meant to go off road not light speed in the fast lane, and I bet even the Callaway one falls apart.
You beat me to it Mel. What the funk is the point in lowering an off-road car - oh right yes, it's a Freelander, the most off-road they are going is 2 wheels up a kerb!
Oh yea and you really need tuned engines etc for going off-road - oh right yes, it's a Freelander........
Want a fast car - buy a fast car.
Want to go off-road buy a Freela....hmmmm perhaps not!
Oh yea and you really need tuned engines etc for going off-road - oh right yes, it's a Freelander........
Want a fast car - buy a fast car.
Want to go off-road buy a Freela....hmmmm perhaps not!
Oh yes Mark I forgot to add I've got a Freelander and it goes off road properly a couple of times a week and on un made roads daily. They are actually very good off road IMO better than Discovery, Shogun, and Troopers (we've got them all in the company) their only problem is they are not "rugged" at all and break very easily if they live a hard life, so they are built to a budget to secure the school run market but do actually handle the mud when they have to. I've posted before the full list of faults mines had and it is a long one. Oh yes they told me last week "don't slam the door the handbrake might jump off" !!!!!
when I worked in Saudi landcruisers were the fave because they were tougher than the rest, V8 land rovers for serious off road stuff and disco's Jeeps for mainly road use. I work with an aussie who says the same sort of thing. Mind you the toyota pick ups take plenty of abuse carting camels around and seem to go on forever
Range Rovers are very capable off-road, but very expensive to run. Defenders are excellent off-road but a bit basic for everyday living. I currently run a Toyota Hilux which goes off-road everyday, so far no problems and nothing falling off (now 1 year old). Jeeps are not built very well but are comparitively cheap and reasonably capable all-round. I have run 4x4s alongside sports cars for about ten years now, each used for its real purpose.
Kevin - nice to hear from another member of the pick-up & sports car club!
I've always fancied a Range Rover or Discovery, but couldn't face the unreliability. (Plus my missus hates them, but likes pick up's).
Have had a Hi-Lux, which was 100% reliable, and now run a double cab Nissan (which is like a limo compared to my old pick-up). They both run well off road, though IMO, not as well as the 4.2TD Landcruiser I had a while back> I think that bigger, torquier engines give better traction, where the small 4 cyl lumps tend either to stall or spin too easily.
I regret to say that, apart from those wealthy enough, an inbred enough, to put up with the colossal depreciation, fuel consumption and unreliability of the Range Rover, Land Rover will soon run out of customers for their cars.
Throwing a body kit onto a Freelander isn't going to convinve anyone, but it might help cover the bodywork damage that results when the handbrake fails to work!
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
I've always fancied a Range Rover or Discovery, but couldn't face the unreliability. (Plus my missus hates them, but likes pick up's).
Have had a Hi-Lux, which was 100% reliable, and now run a double cab Nissan (which is like a limo compared to my old pick-up). They both run well off road, though IMO, not as well as the 4.2TD Landcruiser I had a while back> I think that bigger, torquier engines give better traction, where the small 4 cyl lumps tend either to stall or spin too easily.
I regret to say that, apart from those wealthy enough, an inbred enough, to put up with the colossal depreciation, fuel consumption and unreliability of the Range Rover, Land Rover will soon run out of customers for their cars.
Throwing a body kit onto a Freelander isn't going to convinve anyone, but it might help cover the bodywork damage that results when the handbrake fails to work!
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
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