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What is Land Rover on Uncommon?
Land Rover is a British manufacturer of off-road and luxury four-wheel drive vehicles, founded in 1948 at the Rover Company in Solihull. The original Land Ro...
Land Rover
Above and Beyond
Founded by Maurice WilksSolihull, England, UK
In Uncommon
3337
Public vehicles
14
Models
1
Owner
$55K
Typical value
$44K–$55K
Value range
The story
Land Rover is a British manufacturer of off-road and luxury four-wheel drive vehicles, founded in 1948 at the Rover Company in Solihull. The original Land Rover was conceived as an austere post-war workhorse, but the lineage evolved over seven decades into the world's benchmark premium 4x4 family, from the working Defender to the luxurious Range Rover, vehicles that defined the premium off-road segment globally and remain the choice of royalty, presidents, and adventurers in equal measure.
Above and Beyond
History
The first Land Rover was sketched by Rover chief designer Maurice Wilks on a beach in Anglesey in 1947, inspired by the Willys Jeep he used on his farm. The Series I launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show in April 1948 with a centre-steer aluminium body designed partly to minimise the use of rationed post-war steel. It was an immediate success as a go-anywhere agricultural and military workhorse and the basic formula remained in continuous production for decades. The Range Rover of 1970 transformed the market: luxurious coil-sprung interior, genuine on-road composure, and near-invincible off-road capability. The Discovery of 1989 democratised the Range Rover's lifestyle proposition for families. Land Rover passed through British Leyland, Rover Group, BMW, Ford, and has operated as part of Tata Motors' Jaguar Land Rover group since 2008. The new-generation Defender of 2020, built on the MLA aluminium platform, revived the most iconic nameplate in 4x4 history after a 23-year production gap.
On track
Land Rover does not compete in traditional circuit racing. The brand's competitive heritage is in expedition and extreme-conditions endurance: Land Rovers crossed the Darien Gap, one of the world's most impassable regions, in 1972; circumnavigated the globe in the 1955–58 Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition; and have been used in more polar expeditions than any other vehicle. The Defender won the Camel Trophy, widely regarded as the off-road Olympics, multiple times. The Bowler-Land Rover programme has campaigns Defender-based rally raid cars in Dakar-qualifying events.
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Years in the garage
- 2015230
- 2016193
- 2014167
- 2011163
- 2012152
Colors people run
- Unmodified165
- Mostly Unmodified102
- Black98
- White98
- U.S. Title68
Body styles
- Suv1
The catalog
Defender
1983–present
Discovery
1989–present
Freelander
1997–present
Lr2
2008–2015
Lr3
2005–2009
Lr4
2010–2016
New Range Rover
2022–2022
Range Rover
1970–present
Range Rover Evoque
2012–present
Range Rover Sport
2005–present
Range Rover Velar
2017–present
Series I
1948–1958
Series II
1958–1971
Series III
1971–1985
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