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BRITAIN'S JEEP GETS AN OVERDUE MAKEOVER.(News)
Byline: JULIAN RENDELL
When you venture into the rolling green pastures of the British Isles, one car can be seen trundling through every village and market town: the Land Rover Defender. Carrying hay bales for sheep, ferrying a shooting party across the moors or as transport to the village pub, the Defender performs the role of a Jeep Wrangler or a basic pickup truck in backwoods America, its credibility underpinned by engineering and styling simplicity.
That simplicity-rugged body-on-frame construction and live axles-can be traced back to the first-ever production Land Rover of 1948, an example of which is kept in Land Rover's heritage fleet.
License plate HUE 166, affectionately known as Huey, was born out of the postwar need for a British utility vehicle, inspired by the GIs' Willys Jeep. In fact, the first prototype built by the Rover car company, hence the name Land Rover, was ...
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