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It’s really not an exaggeration to say that the Land Rover has done almost as much as Captain Cook or David Livingstone to open up the world.
It’s been taking explorers with double-barreled names and extravagant moustaches to far-flung places since 1948.
It’s delivered engineers to where they were wanted and missionaries to where they weren’t.
At one time it was said that a Land Rover was the first motor vehicle seen by 60% of people living in developing nations.
With its permanent four-wheel-drive system, lockable centre differential, live axles at both ends, and long-travel coil suspension, early Defenders were famously as capable off the beaten track as they were incapable on it.
They got better and (relatively) more luxurious as the years went by and were ultimately available in pretty much every bodywork style and seating variation iteration you could think of.
The common denominator for all of them, no matter how posh, pampered or pimped, is that you can rely upon one to get you from Timbuktu to Ouagadougou quicker and more comfortably than an angry camel.








