Land Rover Owner January 2022

‘Adventure is never far away’ Normally we do a lot of off-roading each month and that tends to bring its own share of incidents, but we seem to have been involved in more on-road shenanigans than normal this month. You can read about what happened to Martin on p94 (an incident that had the potential to end up far worse than it did; certainly if he hadn’t been in a Land Rover). Mine was when heavy rain and strong winds were battering the area. I was plodding along a road when the vehicles ahead of me pulled up sharply – a large branch had fallen across our side of the road, luckily missing the cars. Bizarrely, the drivers did nothing about it – they just stared at it, then decided…

‘Adventure is never far away’ Normally we do a lot of off-roading each month and that tends to bring its own share of incidents, but we seem to have been involved in more on-road shenanigans than normal this month. You can read about what happened to Martin on p94 (an incident that had the potential to end up far worse than it did; certainly if he hadn’t been in a Land Rover). Mine was when heavy rain and strong winds were battering the area. I was plodding along a road when the vehicles ahead of me pulled up sharply – a large branch had fallen across our side of the road, luckily missing the cars. Bizarrely, the drivers did nothing about it – they just stared at it, then decided to wait until…

People have said I’m mad to spend loads of money on a Discovery 2,’ admits Richard Canterbury, the owner of this fantastic vehicle. ‘They said, “You’ll never make your money back”, but I’ve not built it to sell; this is my vision of the ultimate Discovery.’ So, how much has he spent on it? ‘I can’t say in case my wife reads this,’ comes the reply. ‘Let’s just say it’s no expense spared!’ That’s obviously no small amount, then, and may seem strange given that they’re so cheap to buy. ‘It’s just the trouble with the way the D2 market has gone,’ explains Richard. ‘There are £1000 scrappers running round bashing into each other [at off-road sites]. It’s not the market I want to be in, but I don’t want to go…

People have said I’m mad to spend loads of money on a Discovery 2,’ admits Richard Canterbury, the owner of this fantastic vehicle. ‘They said, “You’ll never make your money back”, but I’ve not built it to sell; this is my vision of the ultimate Discovery.’ So, how much has he spent on it? ‘I can’t say in case my wife reads this,’ comes the reply. ‘Let’s just say it’s no expense spared!’ That’s obviously no small amount, then, and may seem strange given that they’re so cheap to buy. ‘It’s just the trouble with the way the D2 market has gone,’ explains Richard. ‘There are £1000 scrappers running round bashing into each other [at off-road sites]. It’s not the market I want to be in, but I don’t want…

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Disbelieving ferry passengers in the middle of the English Channel were recently met by the sight of a Defender 110. The Land Rover was undergoing a test run in preparation for an ambitious expedition dubbed ‘the last great overland adventure’. The Channel crossing had to be aborted, but the team will return. Their journey will involve driving two TDCi Defenders 18,000 miles from London to New York via the Bering Strait – following in the path of Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ aborted ‘Land Rover Global Expedition’ in the late 1990s. Team members Jeff Willner, Steve Brooks and Mikael Strandberg all have expedition experience. To help the Defenders pull huge 36in tyres, essential for the tundra, the TDCi engines have Stage 3 tuning and higher-ratio gears, making 70mph cruising easily achievable, Jeff reports. Nato…