After nearly seven decades, the very last Land Rover Defender left the production line in Solihull. Defender is an iconic car, the legendary SUV that brought mobility and hope to where there were no roads, where there was not a square centimeter of asphalt.
This is a working machine, it’s a soldier, fireman, police officer, paramedic, travel planner, without which we cannot imagine a safari along the pathless terrain of the African savanna. As it has become part of its landscape.
It is a crossover of classical mechanics, robust design and machine that has resisted modern electronics until the end. Land Rover Defender traveled millions of miles of dunes, mud, rocks and snow. Defender was present on practically all the modern battlefields, wrote automotive history with all four wheels, but now it finally stopped on the obstacle of the modern economy.
Land Rover Defender in production since 1948
A total of 2,016,933 Defenders were made
The last Land Rover Defender, number 2,016,933
In the world auto evolution, there are very few cars that really deserve the label “iconic”. But one place will be definitely reserved for the robust Land Rover Defender. Legendary SUV from Solihull has been produced since 1948. Defender has been driven by many different profiles in its rich history, from simple farmers to Queen Elizabeth. Land Rover Defender performed in many famous movies, like James Bond’s Skyfall (with Daniel Craig) and Edge of Tomorrow (with Tom Cruise).
It is still used by the military and special units of the British and many other police forces.
Last Defender has a serial number 2,016,933.
Jubilee, two-millionth specimen was otherwise made just last year (2015), and has caused huge interest. It was sold at the auction, hosted by Bonhams auction house. The winner of the auction took the 2,000,000th produced Land Rover Defender home for no less than 400 thousand pounds, which is more than half a million euros.
The four-wheel drive vehicle has been produced under many different owners, including British Leyland, BMW, Ford and in the end by the Indian conglomerate Tata through Jaguar Land Rover.
Image credit: Land Rover
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