WE’VE all followed a Defender on the motorway in heavy rain. Amongst the grey road spray or in fog, the dim red pinpricks of the factory tail lights can take great effort to see. Modern cars commonly employ larger, brighter lenses and LED technology,

PEAK & Dukeries Land Rover Club is one of the oldest clubs dedicated to the green oval. P&D came into being when the Rover Motor Co decided to stop hosting Land Rover club events around 1964. At that time the factory-run Land Rover Owners Club became

THE launch of the Discovery in 1989 had a direct impact on the creation of the first Land Rover Experience centre, which opened in 1991. As the Discovery’s 35th anniversary year comes to an end, it’s a perfect moment to review how the Solihull centre

JLR has revealed that retail sales in the second quarter of the financial year 2025 were 103,108 units, down 3 per cent compared with Q2 the previous year. Partly responsible for the decline in sales was a 7 per cent fall in production, which JLR att

Firstly, I must say I’m thoroughly enjoying the LRM podcast so please keep up the great work. I particularly enjoy the weekly dose of talk about buying Land Rovers, which has actually influenced me to go out and buy a second. The vehicle in question

IF I had to give just one reason why Land Rover became the global success that it is, I would point to the box section chassis designed for the first Series I in 1948. This form of construction evolved through the original Range Rover through to the

@LAND_ROVER_MARTIN DESPITE having owned Land Rovers my entire driving career, I’m a relative newcomer to Series vehicles. I only bought my first one, a Series IIA 88, in 2017, and have only owned my current 109 V8 since 2020. Because of this, I’m sti

“ANOTHER challenge that the Project Jay team had to overcome was a major strike at Solihull, when around 6000 Land Rover hourly-paid workers went on strike for five weeks in early 1988,” remembers Brian Hipkins. “This was a particularly crucial time

FOLLOWING the successful launch of its Land Rover Defender series, British coachbuilder Kingsley Re-Engineered has revealed its Range Rover KSR, based on the iconic classic. An evolution of the company’s KC and KR series Range Rover restomods, the KS

LAND Rovers aren’t like other vehicles, or even other 4x4s. They get tired, rusty and run-down, but never truly die. And while my Series III is still very much alive, the adventures I’ve had and people I’ve met because of it over the last few years,

THOSE who read the driveline feature in the November issue of LRM will know this 2006 Range Rover Sport had developed noise from the transfer box rear output bearing after 176,000 miles. I’ve no complaints about that failure, and I’d say the car’s do

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IN a similar vein to both of those drives came another of my Peak District LRM get-togethers. They informally started in 2021, when LRM’s Ed Evans, Steve Miller and I met up for nothing more than a casual catch-up and drive around. And it was fab. We

WE’RE always looking to help readers at LRM. We create features as enthusiasts, to please fellow enthusiasts. Occasionally something crops up where we can help share the passion in other ways. Which is how, in mid-June I came to be taking two young l

WE are spoilt. As Land Rover enthusiasts and owners, we are privileged to have a vast number of skilled companies across a whole range of aftermarket segments available to us – probably more than any other vehicle brand in the world. In this series,

I’VE just stepped in after a fabulous drive. For almost two hours I’ve revelled in a deserted world. No traffic, no cyclists, no horse riders, nothing. Just the whole place to myself and a soundtrack of roaring crossplies. You see, the time of writin

2002 RANGE ROVER L322 Owner: Thomas Mills WITH the increased popularity of people buying the third-generation L322 Range Rover to use as an off-road tool and overlanding platform, I wanted to share with you the story behind my own car. My name is Tho

JLR has announced a £500million investment to transform its 61-year-old factory in Halewood, Merseyside, ready for EV production. After one million hours of construction work and £250million of investment over the last 12 months, the site has been ex

HAILING from America is the first (and, for the moment, only) 6x6 conversion based on the L633 Defender. It’s the creation of Apocalypse Manufacturing, a Florida-based tuning outfit renowned for extreme six- and four-wheel drive SUVs and pick-up truc

REGULAR readers may remember my last update in the July issue, where I was busy beavering away in my shed, hoping to get my Penman trailer finished in time to take it to LRM Live at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern. Well, it happened! Well, w

How long have you owned it? It’s actually owned by my old boss who persuaded me to restore it. He’s had it six years. How did that come about? I told my boss I would find him a Series I, but I think he got fed up of waiting for me and found one himse