New Freelander steps up audio

Land Rover, Land Rover, send surround sound over! Land Rover's all-new Freelander, to be dubbed LR2 Stateside, will be the first-ever vehicle to use Dolby® Pro Logic II® 7.1 surround sound. Sure, almost all vehicles have a rudimentary version of surround sound with speakers taking residence in dashboards, rear decks and door panels, but this is the real deal. With 14 speakers including a center channel, rear surrounds and a subwoofer, it promises home theater-like audio presentations.
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Infinibenz - 8/25/2006 2:20:07 AM

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Hey, that's awesome. Ford's doing a great job trying to sell this POS Escape. Excuse me? What did you say? It's a Land Rover? Hey, I didn't know Land Rover made an Escape?!?

webguy - 8/25/2006 11:42:41 AM

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Next Land Rover will introduce 6 wheel drive.

Congratulations to Land Rover for being first in a race that nobody's in!

Better yet, most DVD-Audio is only mixed in 5.1; not that there's enough room in a car to tell the difference anyway. It gets better... There's not a single mention of DVD-A support. Only mixing 2 channel sound into 7.1! Rendering this a pointless gimmick.

Land Rover would have been better off including a well-respected brand name. Alpine would have been a great choice for their Mustang (but there they lower the brand name bar even further. Shaker???!), but doesn't quite fit the "Luxury" category.