![]() Ī special edition Defender Works V8, with 400 bhp (298 kW), was announced in January 2018. This was the 2,016,933rd Defender to be produced. The last Land Rover Defender, rolled off the production line, with the number plate H166 HUE, a reference to the first ever pre-production Land Rover, registration 'HUE 166'. The two millionth unit was assembled with the help of a special team in May 2015, and charitably auctioned for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) Societies later that year. The new Defender series is only available in closed, estate car bodies.Īfter a continuous run of 67 years production finally ended on 29 January 2016, after a total of just over two million Land Rover Series and Defender models had been built. ![]() The range was originally limited to just two wheelbase lengths before a third, the Defender 130, was announced in 2022. In 2020, Jaguar Land Rover introduced the first all new generation of Land Rover Defenders, switching from body on chassis to integrated bodywork and from live, rigid axles to all around independent suspension. While the engine was carried over from the Series III, a new series of modern and more powerful engines was progressively introduced.Įven when ignoring the series Land Rovers and perhaps ongoing licence products, the 90/110 and Defender models' 33-year production run were ranked as the sixteenth longest single-generation car in history in 2020. Initially the engineering department conserved a part-time 4WD system, like on previous models, but it failed to sell any longer, and this option was immediately dropped in 1984. Both changes were derived from the Range Rover, and the interiors were also modernised.Įxternally, a full-length bonnet and full-width integrated grille and headlights, combined with (finally) a single-piece windscreen, plus widened wheel arches that covered new, wider-track axles were the most noticeable changes. Adding a lockable centre differential to the transfer case gave the Defender permanent (on-road) four-wheel-drive capability. Coil springs offered both better ride quality and improved axle articulation. Though the Defender was not a new generation design, it incorporated significant changes, compared to the series Land Rovers, such as adopting coil springs front and rear, as opposed to all leaf springs on the previous except for retaining rear leaf springs on high capacity (payload) models. The original Defender is still being produced in developing countries despite the arrival of the Land Rover Defender (L663). Using a steel ladder chassis and an aluminium alloy bodywork, the Land Rover originally used detuned versions of Rover engines. The vehicle, a British equivalent of the Second World War derived (Willys) Jeep, gained a worldwide reputation for ruggedness and versatility. Following the 1989 introduction of the Land Rover Discovery, the term 'Land Rover' became the name of a broader marque, and thus no longer worked as the name of a specific model thus in 1990 Land Rover renamed the 90 and 110 as Defender 90 and Defender 110 respectively. ![]() They consistently have four-wheel drive, and were developed in the 1980s from the original Land Rover series which was launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show in April 1948. ![]() The Land Rover Defender (initially introduced as the Land Rover 110 / One Ten, and in 1984 joined by the Land Rover 90 / Ninety, plus the new, extra-length Land Rover 127 in 1985) is a series of British off-road cars and pickup trucks.
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