Land Rover: All Terrain Collective
We spent a precious few hours breathing the air with members of the All Terrain Collective – exploring how this community of Land Rover lovers are dealing with imposed isolation. “I used to just drive little nippy motors,” says Alex Shepherd. “But my boss had a Land Rover and was always going off having adventures. […]
North Coast 500
By now you will have heard of the North Coast 500. Scotland’s answer to Route 66, a 500-mile circular drive from Inverness, taking in some of the countries finest coastline. Images abound of deserted windswept beaches, majestic lochside castles, and above all else, mile after mile of open tarmac, a road tripper’s dream. Unless it’s […]
Trooping the Cooler: ex Military vehicles – Still want that SUV?
The current appetite for Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) is seemingly insatiable, with families gorging themselves on a never-ending dish of pseudo-off-roaders. Primed for battle with other combatant armies of parents and children all ready to shoot down enemies for that scarce parking space in inner city war zones, the SUV is arguably the perfect troop […]
Spen King – the genius behind the Range Rover
Everyone remembers Colin Chapman, the genius of Lotus. The educated remember Alec Issigonis who gave us Minor, Mini and 1100. A sainted few Remember William Lyons, the man behind Jaguar and its most iconic creations – XK120, MkII and E-Type. Few, if any outside of the nerdier ends of motordom, remember Spen King and if they do they […]
LUV FOR THE SUV: The Evolution of the Sports Utility Vehicle
The SUV is everywhere. But in a way, it is strangely absent.
Because let’s face it – the SUVs we see out there in the streets are a million miles away from being how they were originally conceived: hard-wearing, utilitarian workhorses – a one-car solution for a family, a farmer or a sporty type.
These vehicles were never really meant to be about super sized bling. They were never meant to be pootled around in the Waitrose Car Park.
The current full fat Range Rover or Land Cruiser may be equipped to circumnavigate the world the hard way – but they are of course ridiculously over-engineered for most people’s requirements.
Land Rover: Apocalypse
Today the last Defender rolls off the line at Solihull
Land Rover: Timeline
Legend has it that on the tomb of that great defender of the British Isles is carved the inscription:
“Here lies Arthur, King Once and King to be.”
It’s the lament of a nation unwilling to let go. Unwilling to believe in the death of a hero-protector. It speaks both of a heroic past and delivers a promise of resurrection.
And so it is again that in the barracks, in the farm yards and in the ale houses of Britain the life and death of another old campaigner is sung of with tear in eye and fire in heart.
The Land Rover was a child of war. Its conceptual germ a WW2 Jeep, its materials born of postwar shortages and its very production a stop gap intended to fill a factory that had ballooned in size for wartime production.
Land Rover Guest Blogger: Ben Saunders
The Land Rover Ambassador on his long and enduring love with the Great British Brand
Land Rover Defender: Gallery
They are so ubiquitous you might not notice them. But heaven is in the details of the Land Rover Defender.
Defenders of the faith
Retro-progressive new Land Rover stalwart?