Land Rover Monthly

SOMETIMES it’s the little adventures that can be the most memorable. It can definitely be said of a trip I took a couple of weekends ago to the Peak District with Land Rover Life editor Neil Watterson, LRM Associate Publisher Steve Miller and his wif

DUBBED ‘the next chapter in the Classic Defender story’, well-heeled buyers can now commission Land Rover Classic engineers to build an original Defender to the spec of their dreams. Based on quality donor vehicles from 2012-2016, each will be powere

SEND YOUR LETTERS TO [email protected] Before I get serious about paintwork, has anyone got an idea as to why my Land Rover has duck egg blue paint over the original, and under the current bronze green? Someone recently suggested that it might once ha

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CONSIDERING that Land Rover was one of the first British manufacturers to develop a successful small, high-speed diesel, I am surprised how few of these engines found their way into other applications. Ford and BMC would sell a diesel engine to prett

THERE are certain models, and certain specifications or editions of those models, that Land Rover got just oh-so right over the years. And to many, the 50th Anniversary Defender is a halo car – the very best of the best. Great engine, great colour an

HOT off the Solihull production line on 31 March 1958, and with some urgency, chassis number 142800001 was on its way by sea to the port of Melbourne, where it arrived sometime between the middle and latter part of May. It was the first RHD Export Ma

JOHN Dyke and his father Ian are the proud owners of what to me is one of the most inspirational and interesting private Land Rover collections anywhere. The fact that they have acquired many of their vehicles through meticulous sleuthing over many y

THE path of the watershed divide through Scotland, which we followed in 2022 in Rabia our trusty Discovery, finished at a high spot, on Hadrian’s Wall. To reach the end of the Scottish watershed divide here, we had driven the more remote corners of t

As Land Rover enthusiasts and owners, we are privileged to have a vast number of skilled and knowledgeable companies across a whole range of aftermarket segments; probably more than any other brand in the world. In this new series, I will be going be

According to Charles, his father used to trade and modify “all types of interesting stuff.” In the late 1970s he was converting Range Rovers to six-wheel-drive and making them into pick-ups. This was the catalyst for his performance Land Rover ideas.

THE weekend of the Series One Club National Rally finally arrived, and SXF 733 was all ready to join around 275 fellow Series Is at the event including some of the most historic and finest examples around. More importantly – to me anyway – there woul

OKAY, I admit to being a bit cheeky – the Range Rover Sport P510e I’ve been driving this month isn’t actually mine, but one of two 2023 model vehicles from Eastnor Castle’s Experience Centre stable that I’ll be driving to get to grips with the latest

NOISE, vibration and harshness (NVH) is the phrase used by vehicle designers to describe anything that intrudes the peace and quiet of the driver and passengers. It’s something to be eliminated, and the tools include sound-deadening material, careful

LAST month we left Team RS frantically racing the clock to get the Discovery ready to race. With just a day before packing and taking the car to the event, they had another type of race to deal with – getting the car through an MoT test, achieved in

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