The Land Rover Defender is the British four-wheel-drive off-roader that grew out of the Series Land Rovers. It began in 1983 as the coil-sprung One Ten, was joined by the Ninety in 1984 and the One Two Seven in 1985, and took the name Defender in 1990 when the Discovery arrived and Land Rover became a brand rather than a single model. The original ran until 29 January 2016, after more than two million Series and Defender vehicles had been made. A completely new Defender, the L663 with an aluminium unibody, went on sale in 2020. Each generation and each model year has its own page. With the original from 1983 to 2016 and the new generation from 2020, the model year list is long and is shown a page at a time.
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SignificanceBritish off-road four-wheel-drive series developed in the 1980s from the original Land Rover series launched in 1948, renamed Defender in 1990. 1 FAQs
Why did Land Rover rename its off-road model the Defender in 1990?
The 1989 Discovery risked being confused with the older workhorse.
Land Rover launched the Discovery in 1989, and the company worried that people might confuse its utilitarian workhorse with the new family vehicle. So in 1990 the Ninety and One Ten were rebranded as the Defender 90 and Defender 110, with a Defender 130 alongside them.
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JLR builds Land Rovers in Brazil, China, India, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.
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Land Rover as a company has existed since 1978.
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JLR builds Land Rovers in Brazil, China, India, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.
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Tempo in West Germany, Minerva in Belgium, Otokar in Turkey (beginning in 1987 and continued until the original production ended), and Karmann in Brazil (from 1999 to 2006, using Land Rover CKD kits) have also built Defenders and derivatives.
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Source Wikipedia: Land RoverHistory, Land Rover as a companytier 2Quote, History, Land Rover as a company
Land Rover as a company has existed since 1978.
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Source Wikipedia: Land Rover DefenderProduction, other builderstier 2Quote, Production, other builders
Tempo in West Germany, Minerva in Belgium, Otokar in Turkey (beginning in 1987 and continued until the original production ended), and Karmann in Brazil (from 1999 to 2006, using Land Rover CKD kits) have also built Defenders and derivatives.
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The Land Rover Defender (introduced as the Land Rover One Ten, joined in 1984 by the Land Rover Ninety, plus the extra-length Land Rover One Two Seven in 1985) is a series of British off-road cars and pickup trucks.
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The Land Rover Defender is a series of British off-road cars and pickup trucks.
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The coil-sprung Land Rover was introduced in 1983 as "Land Rover One Ten"
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They have four-wheel drive, and were developed in the 1980s from the Land Rover series which was launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show in April 1948.
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is a series of British off-road cars and pickup trucks
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thus, in 1990, Land Rover renamed them Defender 90, Defender 110 and Defender 130 respectively
History, end of the original
production finally ended on 29 January 2016
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It is significant for being the first all-new version of the Defender, breaking the engineering lineage with its predecessor, a descendant of the original Series Land Rovers of 1948.
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