The new Defender has cemented itself in the hearts of many over the past three years, but there’s one place it still can’t compete with the original: roof-free fun. While almost every Series and Defender from 1948 to 2016 could go topless, the unibody structure of the new model prevents that tradition from carrying on. Dutch Defender outfitter Heritage Customs finally figured out a workaround though, with their Valiance Convertible the first-ever soft top L663 Defender conversion.

The Defender 130 that Land Rover donated to the British Red Cross in honor of the late Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022 has been delivered, coming into service in North Wales.

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Land Rover enthusiasts on social media saw a lot of pictures over the Easter weekend from the Cooma event in Australia, the Down Under celebration of the 75th anniversary of Land Rover. While over a thousand Land Rover fans were there to celebrate, many North American enthusiasts don't quite know what the Cooma event is, or its long history of commemorating Land Rover's milestone anniversaries since 1988.

Land Rover announced the 2024 Defender lineup, with a number of special editions and model tweaks to answer the call of fans and enthusiasts.

Jaguar Land Rover announced a major corporate reshuffle, which includes £15 billion in investment in EV technology and a major rebrand of the Land Rover line-up.

Land Rover has recalled a single 2023 Range Rover over a potential turbo oil drain pipe issue. The Range Rover has the BMW V8 engine, and with modern production tracking and reporting, it's now involved in a pinpointed recall. There is also a recall on some plug-in hybrid Range Rovers and Range Rover Sports, which may have an issue with water pump drive belts.

Spy shots have begun circulating of a high-performance off-road new Defender, presumed to be a 2024 model called the "Defender SVX." Taking the off-road provenance of the Defender and combining it with the tuning skills of Land Rover's Special Vehicles division, it's going to be the first ultra-high-performance off-road Land Rover to come to market.

Jaguar Land Rover China, the subsidiary of JLR that produces vehicles for the Chinese market, announced a partnership with Alibaba to integrate cloud computing technology into Chinese JLR vehicles.

In 2019, right before the new Defender came out, LEGO teased its debut with a Technic model. Now, to celebrate Land Rover’s 75th anniversary, they’ve released a model of the classic Defender, with all the surprises and tricks a modern LEGO set has.

A 2007 Discovery 3 (known as an LR3 in North America) delivered new to King Charles III when he was then the Prince of Wales went up for auction in the UK, with a winning bid of £12,050.

The winners of the 2022 Defender Service Awards have started taking delivery of their new vehicles, with some of the five non-profits taking home a brand-new custom-equipped Defender 130.

Jaguar Land Rover is looking for £500m (about $602m) from the British government to build a battery factory in the UK to further their electric vehicle ambitions -- with the threat of building it in Spain if the government doesn't support the plan.

Bowler Motors, the longtime Defender tuner purchased a few years ago by Land Rover to make it an in-house racing firm, has built their hundredth high performance road-legal Defender 90, a specially designed 100th Edition.

Presidents' Day Weekend brought the annual Maine Winter Romp, with over a hundred Land Rovers descending on Benton, Maine to wheel on the Sebasticook Millennium Green. This event, running constantly since the mid-1990s, is managed by long-time Land Rover enthusiast Bruce Fowler, who has -- with the help of a devoted group of volunteers -- turned "Romp" from a small gathering to one of North America's largest Land Rover events. This year, we're sharing the event from the perspective of Willow Riston, a 12-year-old off-road enthusiast who has been wheeling with her father, Atlantic British's Senior Retail Sales Representative Eric Riston, since she was ten months old.