The original Land Rover is a marvel of post-war British engineering, this period in British history is often derided from a quality-control perspective but I think it’s largely exaggerated. Some of the most beautiful and brilliantly designed vehicles in human history came out of Britain during this post-war chapter and all the tired old Lucas-Electrics-jokes…
Jeep: The Adventure Never Stops is a biography of the world’s most famous 4×4, and the vehicle that spawned the SUV domination we’re seeing in the modern world’s auto markets. The original Jeep was famously designed in a single day by Karl Probst at the request of the US Army. The remarkable ability and usefulness…
The Willys Jeep is a vehicle that I’d love to see make a comeback, the relatively small form factor of the design coupled with its mechanical simplicity makes it a fantastic four-wheeler for all manner of off road escapades. Of course there’s no way an original specification Jeep could be manufactured nowadays with emissions regulations,…
You’re looking at the new ICON D90 Land Rover fitted with an LS3 V8, as you can probably imagine (and in true ICON style), not a lot of the original Rover was left after the 22 month long build process was completed. The modern Land Rover D90 Defender is the direct descendant of the original…
This 1968 Land Rover Series IIA is probably one of the nicest non-museum examples to be found anywhere in the world, it was fully restored in 2003 to original factory specifications and it now looks exactly as it did when it rolled off the end of the production line in Solihull. Originally patented by the…
I’ve been making my way through all of the available Camel Trophy documentaries by year, last week I posted the hour-long Madagascar Camel Trophy event from 1987 and so in keeping with the Africa theme I decided to feature the Tanzania/Burundi Trophy event from 1991. If you happen to have the original VHS tapes from…
This hour long documentary covers the 1987 Camel Trophy held on the island of Madagascar, most of the competitors were driving Range Rover Classics as it was before the 1989 release of the Land Rover Discovery, the model that would go onto be used exclusively until the competition closed down in 1998 (click here to…
The ICON FJ40 is an automotive reboot of sorts, the engineering team at ICON took the traditional Toyota FJ40 and stripped it back to its bare essentials, then they went over it part by part and asked themselves how they could make it better, faster, more reliable and more modern. ICON have been working on…
The Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser is one of those iconic 4x4s that holds a place alongside the Willys Jeep and the Land Rover Series I in the hallowed, slightly muddy halls of the off-road vehicle hall of fame. Toyota first started making 4x4s in 1941 when the Imperial Japanese Army found an old Bantam Mk…
This is a 1969 Land Rover Series IIA “Air-Portable” and if you’ve never seen one before, they tend to stop you in your tracks. Often referred to as the Land Rover 1/2 Ton Lightweight it was a model developed by Land Rover for use a rapidly deployable 4×4 that could be slung under the Westland…
The Audi Quattro Sport SWB Coupé was a car originally introduced in 1984 by Audi for homologation purposes, all in all they produced 214 of them but only an estimated 164 were ever delivered to customers. The all-alloy, 5 cylinder turbo-charged engine was capable of producing 302hp in road trim and well over 450hp when…
Ernest Hemingway once said “auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports, all the others are games.” – I suspect that if he’d ever had the chance to see the Audi Quattro S1 in action his belief in that sentiment would be reinforced ten fold. This Audi Quattro S1 Wallpaper is…
