The Land Rover News Blog

The Ottawa Valley Land Rovers club met in Maberly, Ontario from June 21-23 for their 36th annual Birthday Party, a celebration of the club, its members, and its long history.

In the past few weeks, there have been more information leaking out on the new Defender than there are water leaks into an old one. From a LEGO set to an internal PowerPoint, information has come in the strangest of ways.

In addition to the public launch of the camouflaged New Defender, Land Rover used the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed to celebrate 30 years of its all-rounder workhorse, the Discovery.

The last two-door Range Rover Classic to roll off the assembly line in 1994 is heading to auction in July. The auction house Bonhams will put the truck under the hammer at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England.

Land Rover is putting the final touches on a deal to become the next main sponsor of the US Ski & Snowboard Team, in a multi-year deal that would see them headlining the largest American Winter Olympic team through the Beijing 2022 Games.

As development on the new Defender wraps up, it's almost time to move on to waiting for the next iconic Land Rover to be reinvented: the fifth-generation Range Rover, due in 2021. The first mules, wearing the bodies of current-generation Range Rovers, are now driving around England.

The move towards electric vehicles is making for some strange bedfellows in the auto industry, with mergers and joint ventures between rivals becoming more and more common. Jaguar Land Rover has joined on the bandwagon, pairing with former parent company BMW Group to develop next-generation Electric Drive Units (EDUs).

Many modern Land Rovers come with heated steering wheels, but what if they could be used for more than just warming your fingers on a cold day? What if this luxury feature could be used to prevent distracted driving and make roads safer? That was the latest question asked by Jaguar Land Rover and their partners at Glasgow University, who JLR have been working with for a while now on new ways that cars and drivers interact.

There are more official photos of the New Defender, after being used with Tusk, the African wildlife conservation charity, at Borana Conservancy in Kenya. Internationally-renowned wildlife photographer David Yarrow documented Tusk's 2019 "Year of the Lion" campaign from a Defender while at Borana. Also, the Defender has shed even more of its camo, and executives have leaked more information.

There's no greater off-road pilgrimage in North America than Moab, Utah, where every 4x4 enthusiast must one day take their truck to experience the most iconic trails that wind around the red rocks. I took the opportunity this past weekend to join a few friends from the Atlanta area on a cross-country trek by LR3 to ride some of the trails in Canyonlands National Park's Needles District.