Land Rover Defender: still the best at 60? - AutoExpress
Really, there are only a handful of vehicles that warrant such praise – and the Land Rover Defender and its ancestors are among the worthy few. • Land Rover Defender tour: witness the last days of an icon. Arguably, however, it surpasses even these because, now in its 67th year, the Series Land Rover and Defender have been in continuous production longer than any other road vehicle. Eventually, Land Rover will replace the Defender with a new-from-the-ground-up model featuring a fresh design and different parts. As a final swansong, a range of limited-edition models has been built. We took one – the Heritage – to Islay, to drive it back-to-back with its ancestors and see just how much has changed (or indeed, hasn’t) since the first Land Rover rolled off the Solihull line back in 1948. But why Islay. it was the place where the name Land Rover was first coined, as Spencer Wilks – the then-boss of the Rover Company – had an estate there. However, the concept of building a Brit version of Willys’ Jeep was the idea of his brother Maurice, Rover’s engineering. Source: www.autoexpress.co.uk
