Role: Production oddities
Santana Land Rover: The Story of the Spanish-Built Models from Linares
How a 1956 Rover licence made Linares Spain's Land Rover town, and why the Santana line ended up out-engineering Solihull in several respects.
Read the full file >Stage 1 V8
The Stage 1 V8 put Range Rover power and permanent four-wheel drive into a leaf-sprung Series III 109, four years before the coil-sprung One Ten arrived.
Read the full file >Discovery specials and oddities
Camel Trophy team cars, motorway patrol fleets and a steering wheel with a sunglasses holder: the odder corners of the Land Rover Discovery story.
Read the full file >Otokar: Turkey’s licence-built Defenders
Otokar built the Defender under licence in Turkey from 1987 to 2016, and spun the armoured Akrep and the AM General co-developed Cobra from the programme.
Read the full file >Morattab and the Pazhan
Morattab assembled Land Rovers in Tehran from 1962 and kept the line alive with the Santana-derived Pazhan, built right through to 2016.
Read the full file >Minerva TT: the Belgian Land Rover
How Belgium's Minerva built Land Rovers under licence at Mortsel from 1952 to 1956, taking 8,959 CKD kits from Solihull and clothing them in steel.
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