defender

  • World Land Rover Day Commemorates 70 Years of British 4×4 Maker

    Land Rover celebrated their 70th-anniversary paying homage to one of their most important models, the Defender, by creating a 250-meter wide outline of the iconic shape on a mountain in the French Alps. The snow art pays special tribute to the moment when Maurice Wilks, engineering director of Rover,...
  • Land Rover Defender lives on…again

    Land Rover has released a special edition Defender to celebrate their 70-year anniversary. The Land Rover Defender Works V8 will be limited to a mere 150 vehicles and will carry a price tag of just over R2.5million in the UK. It will also be the first V8 Defender to...
  • Saving the Defender name is first step for new model

    A replacement for the current Land Rover Defender, which ended production earlier this year, is still under consideration for 2019. This was given added impetus with more trademark filings for the Defender name. In May, Jaguar Land Rover applied to renew the European trademark and earlier this month did...
  • New aluminium-based Defender possible for 2019

    Production of the Land Rover Defender has only just gone quiet but already rumours have sparked up of a replacement. The new Land Rover Defender could make an appearance in 2019 but it will be a vastly different car compared to the original. The Sixty eight year old design could...
  • End of an era, Defender production shuts down

    Land Rover celebrated 68 years of history today after the final batch of Defenders rolled off the production line at the renowned Solihull production facility.   To celebrate this impressive achievement, over 700 current and former Solihull employees who were involved in the production of Series Land Rover and...