Plushest-ever Freelander is an easy-going drive, but a now dated and pricey package overall Last orders for the Land Rover Freelander. A replacement is on the way later this year complete with new Discovery Sport badge as the first member of an expanded Discovery family, meaning the end for the 17-year, two-generation-old Freelander badge.If you thought that this would mean a bargain, everything-must-go sale was now on for the Freelander, think again. Instead the eye-catcher in a slimmed-down run-out range is the plushest, most premium and most expensive model to ever wear a Freelander badge, the Metropolis.The Metropolis gets the Freelander’s most potent 187bhp 2.2-litre SD4 turbodiesel engine hooked up to a six-speed auto’ driving all four wheels – a drivetrain we’re very familiar with – but it’s the dressing of the car of most note here.The spec of the Metropolis builds on that of the previous HSE Lux flagship and includes Windsor leather seats, a panoramic roof, 19-inch alloy wheels, a Meridian sound system, touchscreen sat-nav, luxury carpets, a reversing camera, metallic paint and gloss black interior trim. It’s as plush as a Freelander has ever been, in other words.from Autocar RSS Feed http://ift.tt/1s0AMlA
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