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 people behind the world’s best-selling Land Rover magazine do like their lunch breaks…

WRITING IN THIS ISSUE…

THE HEIGHT OF SUCCES • They say that you can’t lift a Range Rover L322 but Ra Savage used his ingenuity and experience to transform his broken example into this gutsy – and lofty – luxurious offroad monster

WORLD OF LAND ROVERS • Great prizes for the best two photos in each issue – see over for details

NEWS

News in brief

G4 OWNERS GO OUT TO PLAY • Brian Reynolds, the 2006 UK entrant and Spirit of the Event award winner, tells us all about it

2022 BOOK AND GO – IF YOU CAN!

ADVENTURE CLUB

WILD WALES SAFARI WEEKEND

STUFF • Latest products for your Land Rove

USED & ABUSED • Tested by the LRO team

THE KNOWLEDGE • ‘It’s important to present a firm idea of what the new vehicle looks like, and too wide a variety of colour options wouldn’t help’

THE ADVENTURER

THE TINKERER

2022 CUTP RICE CHALLENGE • We take on a treacherously muddy pit in two of the cheapest Land Rovers. Can they cope, and are they fun? Let’s find out!

THE LRO ADVENTURE TRAIL • This month’s segment of the LRO Adventure Trail sees us heading to an area of Surrey that’s steeped in history – quite a lot of it in the fairly recent past, as Neil Watterson finds

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

THE LRO ADVENTURE TRAIL MAR 2022

GRECIAN ODYSSEY • Theo Ford-Sagers enjoys an adventure around some of the wildest regions of Greece, riding high atop huge mountains and sampling the country’s incredible food

Classic LRO • Owning, restoring & enjoying Series & Range Rover Classic legends

One of the lad’s • Teenage restorer Elyot Harmston took advantage of lockdown to turn his Series | 80-inch into a thing of beauty

Ancients among the modern • John Pearson visits the fascinating collection of Land Rovers and other historic vehicles at Australia’s National Military Vehicle Museum

CONTROL FEAT • Rare double-cab Santana Forward Control is a family heirloom, so Luis Martinez treated it to a full restoration to preserve it – and to drive it

Look – it’s not just a works van after all! • James considers the change of marketing tack for long-wheelbase station wagons in the mid-’70s

DEFENDER REALLY FLOATS MY BOAT • Mark Ryman traded in an old 110 for a new one – and has no regrets

Dipstick’s Dirty Doings

YOUR THOUGHTS • Email, tweet, post online -and, hey, you can even write a proper letter! But do get in touch to have your say

LandRover Owner International

No 2: NORTH YORKSHIRE EXPERIENCES THE BEST OF YORKSHIRE • Jessica Jackson and Laurens de Smet couldn’t decide between two off-roading experiences – so they decided to do both of them

‘IT’S COMING HOME, IT’S…’ • …coming home, it’s coming – Black Pearl’s coming home!’

‘NOW BRING ON THE REAL THING’ • As part of her prep for racing across the Sahara, Helen gets in some valuable...