A Range Rover took the four-wheel-drive class of the inaugural Paris-Dakar Rally in 1979, and again in 1981. In 1979 Leyland Australia started putting the Range Rover together from kits at Enfield, New South Wales, and Land Rover began Project Iceberg with Perkins to build a diesel version of the Rover V8, a project that failed because the alloy block could not take the pressures of diesel operation.
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Land Rover as a company has existed since 1978.
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Land Rover as a company has existed since 1978.
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1. Wikipedia: Range Rover Classic
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Notable off-road feats were winning the four-wheel drive class in the first Paris-Dakar Rally in 1979 and 1981
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Leyland Australia began assembly of the Range Rover from CKD kits at its Enfield plant, in New South Wales, Australia in 1979.
Project Iceberg
From 1979 onwards, Land Rover collaborated with Perkins on Project Iceberg, an effort to develop a diesel version of the Range Rover's 3.5-litre V8 engine.
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but the all-alloy engine blocks failed under the much greater pressures involved in diesel operation
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The Range Rover is a 4x4, mid-size off-road vehicle series
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Range Rover is a 4×4 luxury marque and sub-brand of Jaguar Land Rover.
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