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If there’s one car the British industry can be proud about (apart from the Mini), it’s the Defender. Land Rover’s 4x4 has been in production since 1949 and, even though it evolved somewhat over the decades, at heart it was always the same.
- Land Rover Gives 2 Millionth Defender A Special Treatment [w/video]
Land Rover has built the 2 millionth Defender model (including Series I, II III) at its Solihull plant in the UK after 67 years of production. Read more »...
- Farewell To A Legend: Land Rover Defender Will Be Axed By Mid-decade
Land Rover has confirmed reports that it will stop making the Defender SUV, built since 1948 with little changes. “The Defender will go out of production by the middle of the decade due to legislative reasons,†a Land Rover spokesman told...
- Land Rover Dc100 Concepts Gain A Red Hue For New Delhi Auto Expo
Given that since June 2008, Indian conglomerate Tata owns Land Rover, the presence of the British firm's DC100 concepts that preview a replacement for the iconic Defender at the 2012 New Delhi Auto Show was a certainty. The Defender Concept 100 and...
- Land Rover Previews The Future Of The Defender With Frankfurt-bound Dc100 Concept
The Land Rover Defender is without doubt, one of the most renowned and recognizable off-road models in the world, which makes designing a replacement model an extremely challenging task, to say the least. But the British automaker, which is now under...
- Land Rover Defender 2007 Pictures
*UPDATE: FOR OFFICIAL PICTURES AND INFO, CKICKE HERE: 2007 LAND ROVER DEFENDER As reported earlier this year (click here: 2007 Defender), Land Rover is planning to update its nearly immortal Defender which has been in production with various upgrades...
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Defender of the Faith No More: Land Rover to Build Iconic 4x4’s Successor in India
If there’s one car the British industry can be proud about (apart from the Mini), it’s the Defender. Land Rover’s 4x4 has been in production since 1949 and, even though it evolved somewhat over the decades, at heart it was always the same.
And even though Land Rover has licensed the manufacture of some derivatives and clones of the Defender in countries such as Turkey and Brazil, it was always built in Solihull, UK.
In three years’ time, this tradition will come to an end as Land Rover's owner Tata Motors has decided to manufacture its 2015 replacement at its Prune plant in India and export it from there to the rest of the world.
Read more »- Land Rover Gives 2 Millionth Defender A Special Treatment [w/video]
Land Rover has built the 2 millionth Defender model (including Series I, II III) at its Solihull plant in the UK after 67 years of production. Read more »...
- Farewell To A Legend: Land Rover Defender Will Be Axed By Mid-decade
Land Rover has confirmed reports that it will stop making the Defender SUV, built since 1948 with little changes. “The Defender will go out of production by the middle of the decade due to legislative reasons,†a Land Rover spokesman told...
- Land Rover Dc100 Concepts Gain A Red Hue For New Delhi Auto Expo
Given that since June 2008, Indian conglomerate Tata owns Land Rover, the presence of the British firm's DC100 concepts that preview a replacement for the iconic Defender at the 2012 New Delhi Auto Show was a certainty. The Defender Concept 100 and...
- Land Rover Previews The Future Of The Defender With Frankfurt-bound Dc100 Concept
The Land Rover Defender is without doubt, one of the most renowned and recognizable off-road models in the world, which makes designing a replacement model an extremely challenging task, to say the least. But the British automaker, which is now under...
- Land Rover Defender 2007 Pictures
*UPDATE: FOR OFFICIAL PICTURES AND INFO, CKICKE HERE: 2007 LAND ROVER DEFENDER As reported earlier this year (click here: 2007 Defender), Land Rover is planning to update its nearly immortal Defender which has been in production with various upgrades...