1948 Land Rover Series I launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show 1953 Long Wheelbase version of the Series I is introduced 1956 Oxford and Cambridge teams complete on London to Singapore expedition in Series I 1958 Land Rover Series II unveiled with more refined design 1970 Original two-door Range Rover (the Classic) goes on sale 1971 Land Rover Series III launched 1972 Range Rover crosses Darien Gap on 18,000-mile Trans-America expedition 1976 1,000,000th Land Rover built 1979 A Range Rover wins the inaugural Paris-Dakar rally (and again in 1981) 1981 Land Rover begins legendary partership with Camel Trophy 1981 Four-door Range Rover released 1989 Land Rover Discovery, the third Land Rover model, goes on sale 1990 Original ‘Landie’ relaunched and renamed Defender 1994 Second generation Range Rover launched 1997 All-new Freelander is unveiled with innovative new technology: Hill Descent Control 2001 Third-generation Range Rover with all-round independent air suspension revealed 2003 Inaugural G4 challenge sees 16 teams traverse USA, South Africa and Australia 2004 Range Stormer Concept previews performance Range Rover and three-door body 2004 Discovery 3/LR3, the third-generation Discovery, launched at New York Motor Show 2005 All-new Range Rover Sport unveiled 2006 Freelander 2/LR2 launched. The first Land Rover to be manufactured at Halewood 2008 LRX concept car previews design language of a new luxury compact SUV 2009 Fourth generation of the Land Rover Discovery introduced 2010 Range Rover Evoque, the world’s first luxury compact SUV, makes global debut 2012 Fourth-generation Range Rover introduced – the first all-aluminium SUV… [Read full story]
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