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 go to great lengths to make it

WRITING IN THIS ISSUE…

DEFENDER IMPROVED • The Defender L663 has been around for two years now - and owners are finding no shortage of ways to make these great vehicles even better

GOING LARGE ON 35s

READY FOR EVERYTHING

WORLD OF LAND ROVERS • Send us your pics - we’ll publish as many as we can fit in! PLUS Great prizes for the best two in each issue - see over for details

THE GREENEST AND THE GREATEST • Emissions slashed, range doubled - and faster too! The PHEVs aren’t cheap, but the real wallet killers are the SVs

News in brief

THINK YOU’RE HARD ENOUGH TO JAVA GO? • Thomas Pfister reports from the extreme IOX JAVEX event – all 16 days of it – in Indonesia

PAY & PLAY? SPARES RUMMAGE? GREENLANE TOUR? YOU DECIDE!

ADVENTURE CLUB

WILTSHIRE SAFARI WEEKEND

STUFF • Latest products for your Land Rover

USED & ABUSED

THE TURNER PROSE

THE ADVENTURER

THE INSIDER

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 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 great driving.

GAZEILES IN THE SAHARA • Helen Tait Wright tells the bittersweet story of her bid for success in the arduous women-only Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles

EXTREME HYBRID • It’s built purely for fun by two blokes who look on the light side of life, but it’s absolutely amazing – seriously!

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

On board with the bouncing Czechs • LRO hears from the team who campaigned the oldest vehicles in the Dakar Rally

Forza Rebecca! • How a chance online post saw Rebecca Busi compete in her first Dakar

The Penguin Chaser • With doors hanging off the dissolving bulkhead, this South Atlantic survivor was shipped 8000 miles to be restored

PROUD TO BE PART OF THE COUNTY SET • An off-roading day helped rekindle Dean Ayres’ love of Land Rovers

TESTING TIMES • Doug Wilson’s beautiful 1949 Series I has led a full and active life since being exported to Australia more than 70 years ago

The LWBs that weren’t put out to tender • James considers the very few factory-built long-wheelbase fire appliances

FLUSHED WITH SUCCESS AT D4 • Peter embraces 21st century tech and buys a Discovery 4. The room where the pre-purchase research is done? Well, that hasn’t changed

Dipstick’s Dirty Doings

YOUR THOUGHTS • Email, tweet, post online – and, hey, you can even write a proper letter! But...