Bulgarian tuner Vilner has taken the Land Rover Defender and added a few luxuries – like all new interior and high-end infotainment. Anyone who has ever driven a Land Rover Defender will know that home comforts are not exactly at the top of LR’s list of priorities; spartan necessity probably best describes the interior fittings. But not after […]
2012 Land Rover Defender gets new diesel
Land Rover has given the Defender a new engine for 2012. The new 2.2 litre engine is as powerful as the outgoing 2.4 litre, but much cleaner. It’s hard to decide what to do with a motoring icon icon like the Land Rover Defender. Do you keep on evolving it or do you have a radical re-think? All that’s up for […]
New Land Rover Concept at Frankfurt – Project Icon lives?
It’s being reported that Land Rover are taking a Concept of a future replacement Land Rover Defender to the Frankfurt Motor Show. Last week AE ran a report that suggested Land Rover were considering dumping the iconic Defender from their range as it was perhaps too difficult to find a cost-effective way to update it. […]
Electric Land Rover Defender Revealed
Land Rover in South Africa has worked with battery specialist Axeon to produce an electric Land Rover Defender for safari trips. We do tend to bang on about the only use for electric cars being as expensive runarounds in cities, or as toys to play with for the better off. After all, with useless range and sky-high […]
Land Rover Defender X-Tech launch
Land Rover launches a limited edition Defender – the Land Rover Defender X-Tech – with special paint job and 16″ black saw tooth alloys. The world’s full of SUVs. Everything from the might Range Rover all the way down to the new MINI Countryman. In between you’ll find endless levels of ability, from shopping trolley […]
Land Rover Defender 90 Yachting Edition by Startech
Tuning company Startech has taken the Defender 90 and giving it a cosmetic workover to create the Land Rover Defender 90 Yachting Edition Rather than it being a surprise that Startech has produced a cosmetically highly-specced version of the iconic Land Rover Defender, the surprise is that more tuning forms don’t do it. After all, the […]
Land Rover sales success means more jobs
Land Rover are recruiting 275 new workers at Solihull – an increase of 5.5% in the workforce – to cope with a bulging order book. It’s less than a year since we were busy reporting that Jaguar Land Rover were expecting to have to make some pretty severe job cuts. Tata had seen losses of […]
Land Rover sales up 89 per cent
Land Rover has posted impressive sales figures for October with sales up by 89% in comparison to October 2008. Land Rover has suffered really badly from both the current economic meltdown and the world’s obsession with all things ‘Eco’. The big 4x4s produced by Land Rover seem to have been the main target of the […]
New Land Rover Defender – Project Icon
Land Rover are working on a new Land Rover Defender – Project Icon – based on the current Discovery and due to market in 2012. Yesterday we wrote about the future of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and noted that – despite the new models JLR are planning – one model that would continue would be […]