DISCOVERY SPORT LEADS LAND ROVER’S WHAT CAR? CAR OF THE YEAR AWARDS SUCCESS
New Discovery Sport honoured with prestigious Safety Award Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE named best large SUV for a second consecutive year and a “best buy” Price Point winner in £40,000-plus category Range Rover Evoque sustains its award-winning pedigree as a Price Point winner among small SUVs Range Rover 3.0 TDV6 Vogue SE claims a […]
LAND ROVER CELEBRATES 65 YEARS OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION WITH DEFENDER LXV SPECIAL EDITION
April 30th marks the 65th anniversary of Land Rover World debut for the Defender LXV Special Edition ‘HUE’ birthday cake flown in by Royal Navy Lynx display helicopter Celebratory event showcases 65 years of Land Rover innovation Around 150 heritage vehicles attend celebratory event at Packington Estate, the original testing ground for Land Rover. Whitley, […]
LAND ROVER CELEBRATES 50 YEARS AT EASTNOR CASTLE
Eastnor, Herefordshire 13 December 2011. Land Rover is celebrating 50 years of using the Eastnor Castle estate in Herefordshire as its centre for off road testing and development. Tucked away in rural Herefordshire, this historic piece of English countryside is still an important tool in the research and development of new Land Rovers as well […]
ICONIC RANGE ROVER TURNS 40
The Range Rover celebrates its 40th birthday on 17 June 2010 The Range Rover was the world’s first fully capable luxury 4×4 There have been three generations of Range Rover: the original (Classic) in 1970, second-generation (P38a) in 1994 and third-generation (L322) in 2001 Second model line – Range Rover Sport – launched in 2005 […]
LAND ROVER: CELEBRATING 60 YEARS AND GOING STRONG
Gaydon, 30 April 2008 – 60 years ago today, a motoring icon made its public debut, when the original Land Rover was shown at a motor show in Amsterdam, on April 30, 1948. The current Defender is clearly descended from that first vehicle, now known as a Series 1. Extraordinarily, they even share a couple […]
Range Rover Brief History
In looking around for something to build that would both keep the workface busy and tide the company over until a new Range Rover saloon could be put into production, the Wilks brothers – Spencer (managing director) and Maurice (engineering director) – hit on the idea of a lightweight four-wheel drive along the lines of […]