With the modern Defender now a massive seller for the brand, we chart the history of the model that inspired it Words: Paul Wager Images: Land Rover The modern history of Jaguar Land Rover – or JLR as ...

Land Rover, a British maker of rugged, all-terrain vehicles, debuts at an auto show in Amsterdam on April 30, 1948. The first Land Rover, known as the Series 1, was the creation of Maurice Wilks, the ...

Land Rover came into existence as an automaker in the immediate post–World War II era, with the novel notion of utilizing military-derived all-wheel-drive technology in small personal trucks. These ...

Produced through January 2016, the body-on-frame Defender climaxed in January 2015 with the introduction of three limited-run special editions. These models are called Heritage, Adventure, and ...

Land Rover is leveraging its adventure-motorsport history with a Defender inspired by the brand’s legendary Camel Trophy SUVs and due for a global reveal at this July’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.