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Something about Land Rover makes the adventurous attempt the seemingly impossible. They earn their stripes the long way. Some of the most famous Land Rover drivers know this first-hand.
Land Rover has long been associated with the great outdoors, but we're obsessed with the experience inside our vehicles too. Only the finest natural materials and the most skilled craftsmen will do. Our engines are a product of their environment.
Peer under the bonnet of Land Rover, inside the epicentre of expertise that fuels every one of our cars. Land Rover have been focused on making our vehicles as efficient as possible, we have a strong history of efficient technologies: from active suspension lowering to intelligent stop-start.
Our current vehicles continue this journey with innovative technologies including lightweight electronic power steering, aluminium body structures, and our new Ingenium engines. To identify new efficient E-Capability models, we are offering new E-Capability specifications signposted with blue lettering on the rear of the vehicle. Introducing the Transparent Bonnet. King worked with Rolls Royce, and helped them develop their first jet engines. To this day RR makes some of the best jet engines in the world.
By the way, those jet engines? Charlie built a car around one and set the first turbine powered world land speed record. Imagine the conversation, "Hey Charlie, what should we do with all these spare jet engines designed for airplanes? The Series II Cuthbertson was invented by a Scotsman who figured out that treads would enable the SUV to trek across the Highlands without sinking into the spongy ground. However, eventually this became a factory option.
They also invented the Monster Truck 30 years before anyone else. In the s, the British Forestry Commission demanded that someone create a road going vehicle that could tackle even the deepest mud puddles.
Land Rover happily obliged, bolting on four tractor tires and some beefy axles from a Studebaker to a Series IIA, thereby giving birth to the first monster truck. Oh, and they made the most grueling off-road challenge in the world their bitch for two decades. Land Rover dominated the Camel Trophy , which included treks across places like Siberia, the Amazon, Tierra del Fuego, and the Australian Outback, with vehicles that were mostly stock.
Except for uhhh epic inflatable boat functionality. This qualification allowed them to be exempt from the brutal tax system on passenger vehicles. Extra bonus: you get to use bus lanes and skip out on all that pesky London traffic. They made floating SUVs, because of course.
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