The last Defender: Is Land Rover's off-road heyday over?

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[font=Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The last of Jaguar Land Rover's classic Defenders will roll off the production line this week, ending 68 years of production - does this mean the carmaker's best off-road days are behind it?[/font]
[font=Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Picture a Land Rover and you might imagine a box-shaped green vehicle etching desert sand or surging through floodwater.[/font]
[font=Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]It's a nostalgic vision of a car whose practicality is legendary - and according to motoring journalist Quentin Willson one that is redolent of a bygone era.[/font]
[font=Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]"The world has changed. We don't have the same needs as in the post-war era when it was developed," he said.[/font]
[font=Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The classic Land Rover model, today called Defender, has evolved but JLR said it had essentially "changed very little during its lifetime", while vehicle standards had "changed dramatically".[/font]


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