The Land Rover Freelander II has proved to be a big commercial success.Land Rover started production of the all-new Freelander 2 model just 17 months ago. The employees at Halewood Operations on Merseyside are celebrating already after producing the 100,000th Land Rover Freelander II, a car that became extremely popular across the world, especialy in key emerging markets such as Russia, China or Middle East. The 100.000th car is a Rimini Red 2.2 Diesel Automatic and was delivered to a russian customer located on the Central Siberian Plateau. In 2007, Land Rover have sold a total of 12.000 units in Russia, an increase of 95 per cent over 2006.

Thomas Klein, Operations Director at Halewood said: “The 100,000th Freelander is an important milestone for the plant – Freelander 2 helped Land Rover achieve its best ever sales year in 2007 and has won several major awards in its first 12 months in the market place. Freelander is continuing to perform well in traditional Land Rover markets such as the UK but sales in emerging areas like Russia and China are also growing rapidly so it’s entirely fitting that this car is destined for a customer in Siberia. I’d like to congratulate the Halewood workforce on this fantastic team achievement.”