Land Rover Owner

LRO is the world's biggest magazine dedicated entirely towards the Land and Range Rover enthusiast. Every issue you'll find our team of experts writing inspirational features on: - Adventure! Off-road adventures in some of the world's most spectacular countryside - Restoration! Inspiring tales of old Land and Range Rovers lovingly rescued and restored... - Maps! Tough tracks with OS maps for you to try - Rare models... find something unusual in every issue - Land Rovers and spare parts for sale... a fantastic range of parts & vehicles for sale, every month Plus the latest club news and events from around the world. Love Land Rovers? Love LRO!

WELCOME • The LRO team will go to any heights to bring you the world’s best selling Land Rover magazine

WRITING IN THIS ISSUE…

GET IN TOUCH • It’s never been easier to drop us a line. We still get letters too – our address is on p97

GERMAN ENGINEERING • A ‘quick job’ for tech wizard Max Wiseman snowballed into a full rebuild, resulting in one of the most advanced and luxurious Defenders on the road

WORLD OF LAND ROVERS • Send us your pics, win great kit!

NEWS

News in brief

MROC’S (TAME) TRIAL BY SUNSHINE • Ruth Smith and her colleagues in the Midland Rover Owners’ Club enjoyed some quality time together – and some easy-going trialling – against the highly agreeable backdrop of sun-kissed Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire

EVENTS • GET BACK OUT THERE BUT CHECK BEFORE YOU GO...

ADVENTURE CLUB

STUFF • Latest products for your Land Rover

USED & ABUSED • Tested by the LRO team

THE TURNER PROSE • ‘Does a camp-capable vehicle make us an overlander, a wildcamper or something else entirely?’

THE ADVENTURER • ‘Nobody should know where you’ve been wild-camping – ideally, you should leave no trace behind’

THE INSIDER • ‘A test showed that my own Discovery 1 performed better on the route than the Discovery 2 did’

THE DISCO THAT MUSCLED IN • It’s not just Defenders that can be made into champion powerlifters, as Mark Saville, er, Discovers

LRO 300 MILE REAL WORLD TEST • Plug-in hybrid Range Rover Evoque – with its 197bhp three-cylinder petrol engine and 107bhp electric motor gets a workout on the latest version of our arduous 300-miler

RANGE ROVER EVOQUE P300E HSE PHEV

THE LRO ADVENTURE TRAIL • The United Kingdom has some fantastic roads to drive. Many of them are greenlanes, allowing us to get away from regular traffic; others are joyous tarmac ribbons that snake over hills and across moors. In this new series we’ve joined them together to form the LRO Adventure Trail – a 3800-mile, family-friendly route that offers the best driving available with the bonus of some interesting places to visit. No matter where you live in the UK, you’ll never be far from the LRO Adventure Trail.

WHILE YOU’RE THERE • Places to stop along the route – the LRO Adventure Trail is about more than just the greenlanes.

DAY TIMES

A VOYAGE ALONG THE PIRATE COST • It’s a tranquil place now, but this corner of the Middle East used to be anything but – as Sam Watson finds on his latest solo desert adventure

Time to go topless?

Finders keepers • It’s taken a lifetime to get there but, finally, Andy Banks has the Series I of his dreams, as he tells Mark Saville

Life partner • There has only ever been one Range Rover Classic in Alan Paramore’s life – this one. And it’s safe to say that state of affairs will never change

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH • Nick’s Series III has been his dream drive for a decade, and while it’s not always been an easy ride, he says it’s been a very rewarding one

James Taylor Roverphile • More archive gems and rarities from the world’s leading Land Rover...