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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.
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.
Rover also manufactured the Land Rover series from 1948 onwards, and created the Range Rover in 1970, which went on to become its most successful and profitable product. Land Rover eventually became a separate company and brand in its own right. Rover was bought by Leyland Motors in 1967, which had already acquired Standard-Triumph seven years ...
The first issue of Land Rover Owner was launched in July 1987 and featured a picture of Captain Mark Phillips and his horse on the front cover. The second issue front cover featured the Queen with her Series III Land Rover. [3] The third front cover showed a Land Rover being driven off-road, which is what has been featured on the front cover ...
The Rover 200 Series, and later the Rover 25, are a series of small family cars that were produced by British manufacturer Rover from 1984 until 2005. There have been three distinct generations of the Rover 200. The first generation was a four-door saloon car based on the Honda Ballade.
The Land Rover Range Rover, generally shortened to Range Rover, is a 4x4 luxury SUV produced by Land Rover, a marque and sub-brand of Jaguar Land Rover. The Range Rover line was launched in 1970 by British Leyland and is now in its fifth generation.
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The rights to the dormant Rover brand were sold by Ford, along with the Jaguar Cars and Land Rover businesses, to Tata Motors in 2008. MG Rover Group was formally dissolved on 28 May 2023, [2] more than 18 years after it was originally put into administration in April 2005. [3]