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Land Rover is an UK-based automotive brand that specializes in production of 4WD (four-wheel drive) cars. Land Rover is part of the Jaguar Land Rover company.
Originally, the Land Rover name was registered by the Rover Company, launched in 1948. The Rover Company quickly rose through the ranks, developing a number of four-wheel drive models.
The actual Land Rover company wasn’t legally founded until 1978. Before that, it worked as just a production line for the parent Rover Company. However, as the success of the Land Rover car series proved to rise unexpectedly fast, it was decided that the line should split and become a self-sustaining brand under British Leyland Motor Corporation ownership.
In 1994, BMW acquired the entire Rover Group and sold Land Rover to Ford Motor Company in 2006 for roughly 6 million GBP.
The first models provided by Range Rover ere the I, II IIA and III Series, also known as the original 4×4 models. Between 1970 and 1996 Range Rover produced the Classic. Next the market was presented with the Defender, a large vehicle with outstanding 4×4 capabilities. The Freelander 2 was sold as a small off-road vehicle with 4×4 capabilities.
More recent models built and sold by Land Rover include the Discovery line, with Discovery Sport and Discovery 5 models, the Evoque (a medium-class SUV), Range Rover and Range Rover Sport. In 2017, Land Rover presented the Range Rover Velar, a mid-sized luxury SUV featuring 2-liter, 3-liter and 5-liter (supercharged) engine units. The Range Rover Velar is built on the same platform as the Jaguar F-Pace.
Land Rover also presented various vehicle concepts along time, including the Range Stormer, presented at the 2004 NAIAS, which was later to become the Range Rover Sport. Other concepts feature the Land Rover LRX, unveiled in 2008, the DC100 and the Land Rover Discovery Vision Concept, the latter being published as a replacement for the production Land Rover Discovery.
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