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 trips fuelled by rubbish jokes to produce the world’s best-selling Land Rover magazine

WRITING IN THIS ISSUE…

LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE • Dave King’s Defender workhorse begins a second career as an overland adventure machine

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

FREELANDERS ON A MISSION TO UKRAINE • Land Rovers swell the ranks of vehicles being delivered to the country to provide critical humanitarian aid

News in brief

QUIET KENT GETS A RUDE AWAKENING • High-octane CCV chariots from Southern ROC take on a North Downs course, as the club’s John Jennings reports

MAY AND JUNE: SORTED!

ADVENTURE CLUB

STUFF • Latest products for your Land Rover

USED & ABUSED • Tested by the LRO team

THE ADVENTURER

THE KNOWLEDGE

THE TINKERER

DEFENDER WITH A TWIST • At £270,000, Twisted’s electric Defender T-EV is the most expensive Land Rover we’ve ever tested. John Pearson reckons there’s a lot to be learned from the way it’s been put together

THE LRO ADVENTURE TRAIL • Fancy an adventure through some quintessentially English rolling countryside, ending up at the coast with a traditional meal of fish and chips? Well, tag on behind John Pearson

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

MOUNTAINS OF PLENTY • Theo Ford-Sagers discovers a land of bears, honey, wild mushrooms and fabulous mountain tracks in northern Greece

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

Bargain buy • Ben Walker paid just £1000 for this 1960 Series II – a gamble that has paid off handsomely

YOUR CLASSIC LAND ROVERS • Your great vehicles and stories

YOUR CLASSIC LAND ROVERS • Your great vehicles and stories

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

IF LOOKS COULD THRILL • It was the Defender L663’s handsome appearance that attracted the attention of Willie MacEachen – but it’s much more than a pretty face

I GOT IT RIGHT FIRST TIME • Don took a bit of a leap in the dark when he bought his first-ever Land Rover – but the sun has been shining brightly on him ever since

LAND ROVER PHOTO OF THE YEAR 2022

This month’s burning issue

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

‘I’M SHELF-ISH!’ • With the back of the 110 Utility Wagon increasingly resembling a skip, Watty decides the time has come to do something about it

‘IT’S A BIT OF CRAWL RIGHT!’ • Sam spends a couple of days with one of the most outrageous, but brilliantly engineered, Land Rover creations he’s ever seen

‘I’M GAME – AND SO’S THE IIA!’ • When Vicky was asked if she fancied a day’s off-roading in the Carawagon, there was always only...