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The time has finally come. The new Land Rover Defender celebrates its world premiere at the IAA in Frankfurt. Visually and technically much more modern, he is nevertheless immediately recognizable as a Defender. In addition, Jaguar Land Rover are showing all current models of its fleet on the show.
The New Range Rover Sport has made its global premiere with a dramatic world-first climb up a flooded dam spillway in Iceland.The epic ascent saw New Range Rover Sport resist the surging torrent of water flowing down the ramp of the Karahnjukar Dam – the biggest of its kind in the world – at a rate of 750 tonnes per minute. A loss of traction risked plunging down the perilous 90m drop at the base of the spillway to the valley floor below.The successful spillway ascent was screened for the first time at an exclusive launch event at Jaguar Land Rover’s Advanced Product Creation Centre at Gaydon, UK.Official James Bond stunt driver Jessica Hawkins was behind the wheel as the New Range Rover Sport demonstrated its grip, traction, performance and composure, completing the latest in a series of challenges for Land Rover’s luxury performance SUV. Previous feats include a record-setting hill-climb at Pikes Peak, a first recorded crossing of the ‘Empty Quarter’ desert in the Arabian Peninsula and a first ascent of the 999 steps to Heaven’s Gate in China, in 2018.
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The time has finally come. The new Land Rover Defender celebrates its world premiere at the IAA in Frankfurt. Visually and technically much more modern, he is nevertheless immediately recognizable as a Defender. In addition, Jaguar Land Rover are showing all current models of its fleet on the show.
Land Rover marked its 70th anniversary with a global broadcast celebrating the world's favourite 4x4s and the people who love them – 70 years to the day since the first Land Rover made its debut at the Amsterdam Motor Show in 1948. The event paid tribute to seven decades of adventure, humanitarian aid and hard work; tracking Land Rover’s journey from a utility model at the end of the Second World War, to becoming the world’s favourite 4x4, with more than 7 million sold.