Ben Branch October 23, 2019

This Toyota FJ45 Land Cruiser Pickup has been through a comprehensive restoration to factory-fresh condition, just as it would have looked rolling off the boat from Japan in 1983. The FJ/BJ-series of Toyota Land Cruisers…
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Jon Branch October 10, 2019

The story of the Africar is worthy of a Hollywood film, it involves millions of dollars, a Cambridge-educated engineering genius, a film crew, a global adventure, a wildly unusual automobile, and ultimately, a controversial…
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Ben Branch September 25, 2019

The Kaiser Jeep M715 is the military variant of the civilian Jeep Gladiator. By the mid-1960s it became clear that the current US Military 4×4 truck, the Dodge M37, needed to be replaced – rather…
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Jon Branch September 12, 2019

First There Was the “Blitz Buggy” and a War to Win The beginning of the Jeep CJ dates back to the origin of the “Jeep” itself, a story that began on 11th July 1940 when…
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Ben Branch September 9, 2019

This Land Rover Defender SOV (also known as the RSOV) was originally built as a prototype for the American Special Forces, specifically the US Army Rangers. The vehicle was one of three prototypes built and…
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Ben Branch August 26, 2019

The DUKW 6×6 Amphibious Utility Vehicle is typically just referred to as the “Duck” after its official name “DUKW” – a US Military code for its design: “D” means designed in 1942, “U” means utility,…
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Ben Branch August 5, 2019

The Unimog 404 was the second major iteration of the legendary German off-roader named by taking the letters from three words – UNIversal MOtor Gerät, or “universal power unit” in German. In the years shortly…
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Ben Branch July 26, 2019

The Steyr-Daimler-Puch Pinzgauer is renowned as one of the toughest and most capable off-road vehicles of its time, particularly among the military service members who used them extensively on deployment. The Steyr-Daimler-Puch Pinzgauer Engineers at Steyr-Daimler-Puch…
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Ben Branch July 18, 2019

When the Land Rover Series 2A was first released in 1961 the engineers behind it would have had no idea that almost 60 years later one of their hardy 4x4s would be fitted with a…
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Ben Branch July 11, 2019

This was His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama’s personal daily transportation for 10 years between 1966 and 1976 in Dharamsala, India. Although the Dalai Lama never personally drove the car, he did spend a lot…
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Ben Branch June 25, 2019

This Land Rover Series 2A LWB (long wheelbase) has been through a comprehensive nut-and-bolt restoration by the talented team at Cool n’ Vintage for a world famous client – Deus Ex Machina. Impressively this…
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Ben Branch June 22, 2019

Edit: This article has been updated since the new Land Rover Defender was released, to answer the original question, yes this was a leak of the new Defender design. This is the new Lego Technic…
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