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The original Land Rover Owners Club was set up by the Rover Company in 1954. The company published the Land Rover Owners Club Review magazine for members from 1957 to 1968 when the club became the Rover Owners Association. This original association fell away when the company merged with British Leyland.
The first issue cost £1 for 40 pages (mainly black and white), but during that time there were just two models to write about – the Land Rover and the Range Rover. The first two issues sold well. In May 1990 LRO reported that the Discovery had become the UK's best-selling 4x4 with 1,533 sold in the first three months of 1990. [ 4 ]
The Land Rover became a runaway success (despite Rover's reputation for making upmarket saloons, the utilitarian Land Rover was actually the company's biggest seller throughout the 1950s, '60s, and '70s), as well as the P5 and P6 saloons equipped with a 3.5L (215ci) aluminium V8 (the design and tooling of which was purchased from Buick) and ...
Land Rover Group (LRG) was a division of British Leyland (BL) and later the Rover Group that was in existence between 1981 and 1987. LRG brought British Leyland's light commercial vehicle production under one management, consisting of the Land Rover utility 4x4 range, the Range Rover luxury 4x4 and the former Leyland Sherpa van range (re-branded Freight Rover to match the other group members ...
1999: The Rover 200 and Rover 400 are facelifted and rebadged as the Rover 25 and Rover 45 respectively Production of the Rover 600 ends; 2000: BMW retains both the Mini marque and the Cowley plant; launches the new Mini. Sales would begin in Summer 2001. Land Rover (including the Solihull plant) sold by BMW to Ford for £1.8 billion.
In 2003, competitors representing sixteen nations helped Land Rover fill the gap left after the demise of Camel Trophy. [4] Surprisingly, the inaugural Land Rover G4 Challenge contained many of the elements of Camel Trophy 1998, which Land Rover had reportedly been disappointed with. The "ultimate global adventure" was a test of skill, stamina ...
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Minerva Land Rover. Note the sloping front faces to the wings. After World War II the company produced a version of the Land Rover 80" under licence for the Belgian army up to 1954. The 80" model was known as the TT (Tout Terrain). A smaller number of licence built Land Rover 86" were built from late 1953 to 1956.