Top Gear has taken the slightly unusual decision to drag race the Land Rover Defender V8 Works against the hot hatch Honda Civic Type R. We have the video. The idea of using a Land Rover Defender in a drag race against one of the best hot hatches you can buy – the Honda Civic […]
New ‘Land Rover Defender’ from Ineos could be built at Ford Plant in Wales
The ‘New’ Land Rover Defender planned by Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos could be built at Ford’s engine Plant in Bridgend. The plans by Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos looks to be on track to deliver their vision of a ‘New’ Land Rover Defender, despite JLR putting a spoke in the works. Ineos has already revealed their new 4×4 […]
New Land Rover Defender for Selfridges is now on Designer Street
A new Land Rover Defender V8 Works has been hand-built by JLR Classics in Selfridges London store and is now on permanent display. A few weeks ago we revealed that a new Land Rover Defender was on the way, this one hand-built by Land Rover. But it wasn’t the all-new Land Rover Defender we’re still […]
New Land Rover Defender being built at Selfridges
Land Rover are busy assembling a new Defender V8 at Selfridges in London as part of a new display in their menswear section. Before you get too excited, this isn’t the all-new Land Rover Defender news we’re now, finally, expecting to see next year, but a new assembly of a Land Rover V8 Works at […]
New Land Rover Defender on the way from BOWLER – and it’s a road car (video)
Bowler, best known as builders of extreme versions of the iconic Land Rover Defender, tease the arrival of a new Bowler for the road. Bowler do make the most extreme takes on the Land Rover Defender, but unlike many ‘modifiers’ of Land Rover products, Bowler’s offerings are so special Land Rover and Bowler created a […]
World Land Rover Day is 30 April 2018 – and here’s a Defender in SNOW ART for starters
Jaguar Land Rover has announced they’re declaring 30 April 2018 World Land Rover Day, 70 years on from the first Land Rover arriving. And they’ve chosen ‘Snow Art’ to kick things off. It’s April already, and we’ve really not had a huge amount from Land Rover to mark their 70th anniversary yet. Yes, we’re going […]
New Land Rover Defender will OVERSHADOW the new Mercedes G-Class says LR Designer
The new Land Rover Defender still hasn’t been revealed, but a senior Land Rover designer is saying that when it arrives it will overshadow the new Mercedes G-Class. Jaguar Land Rover may be delivering more and more new models, with Jaguar heading down the SUV route with the F-Pace, E-Pace and now the new i-Pace, […]
Land Rover Defender ‘Successor’ by Ineos to be engineered by former Mercedes subsidiary
Plans by Ineos and its founder Jim Ratcliffe to build a true successor to the Land Rover Defender are moving on apace as Ineos appoints MBtech – a former Mercedes-Benz subsidiary – to design and engineer the new 4×4. Last summer, we reported that Jim Radcliffe – billionaire founder of Ineos – was planning to […]
Land Rover Defender Works V8 sees the RETURN of Land Rover’s Iconic 4×4
There’s a new Land Rover Defender – the Land Rover Defender Works V8 – with V8 power as a limited edition of just 150 Defenders to celebrate Land Rover’s 70th Anniversary. Price from £150,000. You thought the Land Rover Defender as we know it was dead and buried? Think Again. Land Rover has decided they’re going […]
1948 Land Rover LAUNCH car being restored by JLR Classic
Jaguar Land Rover Classics is restoring one of the three 1948 Land Rover launch cars, recently rediscovered, as it starts its Land Rover 70th anniversary celebrations. It’s 70 years this year since the very first Land Rover arrived at the Amsterdam Motor Show and started an unbroken 67 years of production for the Land Rover […]