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 • It takes many sensible (and a few fuelish) people to produce the world’s best-selling Land Rover magazine

‘Fuel price increases are hitting us hard’

WRITING IN THIS ISSUE...

WILD CAMPER • Want to know you’ll be able to get to the perfect campsite? Kevin Reece has built up his Ninety for the toughest adventures

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

NOT FUNNY MONEY • Financial pressures: what’s going on, and what it means for your wallet

News in brief

ONLY CLASSICS ALLOWED IN THE MOJAVE • For a day, anyway. Peter Matusov from the Land Rover Club of San Diego joined in the fun in his Range Rover

EVENTS • PAY & PLAY? SAHARA DESERT? GREENLANE TOUR? YOU DECIDE!

ADVENTURE CLUB

STUFF • Latest products for your Land Rover

USED & ABUSED • Tested by the LRO team

THE TURNER PROSE

THE ADVENTURER

THE INSIDER

KEEP CALM AND GO CAMPING • Land Rover people love the outdoor life – from family camping hols to overlanding. We advise on buying a roof tent and tempt you with camper trailers, pop-tops and ground tents

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 great 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.

All YOU NEED TO KNOW • LRO’s greenlane rating always takes into account such factors as length, scenery, terrain, driveability and local interest.

GREENLANE CODE

MUD, SWEAT AND TSETSE FLY BITES • A camping trip in Africa is always exciting, but going in the middle of the rainy season takes adventure to a new level, says Julie Osborne-Tame

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

Firing the imagination • Fire appliance purists should look away now but you’ll love it if you’re a fan of outside-the-box classic Land Rover camper solutions

FOR YOU, DAD • For Paul Hodges, this wonderfully preserved Series III doesn’t just invoke memories of his late parents, it provides an unshakeable link to them

Road to Recovery • John Foster’s love of classic Land Rovers is as visible as his beautiful, bright yellow Series IIA tow truck

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

ONWARDS – AND UPWARDS • Taking his distinctive, lifted Discovery 2 off-road was a revelation for Steve Price – and he hasn’t looked back since

LAND ROVER PHOTO OF THE YEAR 2022

Dipstick’s Dirty Doings

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