Land Rover likely will rename its entry-level SUV in the United States when a redesigned model goes on sale here next year.

"It probably won't be called the Freelander," said Richard Beattie, executive vice president of marketing, sales and communications for Land Rover North America Inc. He was speaking after a breakfast meeting for Land Rover dealers.

The next-generation small SUV is scheduled to go on sale in Europe this fall and then arrive in North America in spring 2007. It replaces the Freelander sold here from 2001 through 2005. Land Rover stopped importing the Freelander to the United States last year.

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