[Berlin_Freeper]

I walked my daughter home yesterday and took this picture...

Yes her coat is dirty from play. Was cleaned last night.

[Sirius Lee]

Sad. Just sad.

[2ndDivisionVet]

To be replaced by the Caliphate model, no doubt.

[exDemMom]

Jaguar Land Rover will produce a new model bearing the Defender name in the next couple of years but it will sit among the modern 4x4s without the distinctive features that link it to Wilks’s great utilitarian creation.

I'm sure that will be like the modern VW "beetle"--an ugly monstrosity that bears little to no resemblance to the original.

I remember seeing a lot of those little utilitarian Land Rovers on the road when I lived in southern Spain. They usually had a "90" (or "80", "70", or "60") sticker on the back, indicating their top speed (in km/h). We passed them a lot.

[pepsionice]

I thought the Chinese were going to eventually take the model and manufacture it? The big issue I thought was the eight-cylinder model and no willingness to flip to a 4-cylinder model.

[Tupelo]

All things must end at some time.
Just a Jeep before them, Land Rover will now just be another overpriced Yuppiemobile. Both dipped their toes in that pool many years ago. Jeep made the complete jump several years ago. Now it is Land Rover’s time.
I too mourn the passing of an era.

[redfreedom]

The one pictured with the cheetah in the article is very similar to the one that approached us in Ethiopia’s Eritrean desert in 1968. Two Americans were in it and claimed to be map makers. I didn’t believe it then, and do not today. Most probably special ops of some sort.

Sad to see them go. It would be like losing the Jeep.