Britain's Greatest Machines... the Land Rover
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2015
- OFF ROAD ICON: Land Rover (1948)
This iconic vehicle started life as a bit of desperate post-war improvisation in a bid to save a failing British car company. Designer Maurice Wilks took the chassis and axles of a World War II Willy’s Jeep, added an engine and gearbox from a Rover P3 saloon car, some off-road tires and the prototype was born.
It was aimed at first at farmers and even came with a tractor-style power take-off at the back you could run equipment from. In the 1950’s Land Rover sales outsold all other Rover cars by 2 to 1 and pretty much saved the company. From there it has of course evolved into a world conquering off-road brand, favoured b everyone from desert explorers to Mum’s on the school run.
TIMEWARP… cash strapped Rover used war surplus aluminium for the bodywork coated in layers of war-surplus army and airforce shades of paint… all of which helped create the legend!
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT… the spawn of the iconic Willy’s Jeep this was the original and still best loved commercial off-road vehicle in the world.
This film features Chris Barrie going off-road in an original Land Rover.
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The greatest 4X4Xfar.
Love it or loathe it....it is without doubt, an engineering icon!
2022 Severals land rover run all over the planet earth !
The old ones were great but the newer ones are a money pit!....crap
True even international scout 2 is better
Well that's way more versatile than America's Jeep
Heavy dutty car ! ingeener farmer doctor play boy cow boy gentleman driver etc
I have a 1959 Land Rover Santana
Santana... the history of how the british made one of the best cars ever, inspired by the americans, and then the spanish did their best to ruin it.
Better than to today's Land Rover . Turned into luxury crap
Yes ...
I couldn't have said it better myself. The 2020 Defender looks more like a Discovery Series II in the form of a concept car.
Definition of a Land Rover - A machine that converts money into noise, heat and smoke.
I thought that the definition of a Land Rover was’ a loose collection of parts that happen to be travelling in a similar direction, most of the time’, and yes I drive one every day.
Ironic how the Land Rover was meant to be a civilian farm vehicle, then it got militarized by 1953.
And if you love Deltics you can see an 18cyl. crankshaft and a blade con rod being machined from 0:46 to 0:52 - Looks like it was lifted from Napiers promotional film 'Triangle of Power"
This is soooo unrealistic !
I took mine out for a drive today , and my hat blew off! 🤠🙄
Mon opignon, il est tres beau, sa s'arrête la, il serai temps qu'il s'associe avec des compagnies fiable, Toyota Honda etc,etc..
Take a man's wallet
He is poor for a week.
Give a man a Land Rover
He is poor for life.
' Spare jeep parts were becoming hard to get hold of', you state. You mean they made thousand upon thousand of jeeps and this is 1948, three years after the end of the war. NOS jeep spares are still available in 2021...
I believe they meant an understood "... in the UK".
projekt ukradziony polakom !!!
Would of been good if they could get them to run properly, most unreliable cars you can buy.
Really? I’ve had three. Keep it sorted and it’ll be alright. If you drive it till it breaks, don’t blame rover
@@highdownmartin what year old is good but new unreliable
John Mcclane just been to Wales and back 820 miles in my 61 ser 2 with a 25 year old disco 200 tdi in it. The only thing that broke was The satnav
@@highdownmartin I agree - I've owned four since 2000, had all the maintenance done by the dealer per the schedule, and have never had any reliability problems at all.
Still own my 1957 series one bought in 1973. Still running well. Bet yours won't last that long !!