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 a bunch of savvy shoppers to produce the world’s best selling Land Rover magazine

The Power and the Glory • Gary Wood and his Alive Tuning team didn’t originally plan to make the world’s most powerful Td5 Defender…

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 next page for details

LAND ROVERS TO THE RESCUE

News in brief

A SUNNY ESCAPE

ELECTRIC TWOSOME

NEW ICELANDIC ADVENTURE

ULTRA4 EXPANDS

LRCP LAND ROVER SAFARI 60th ANNIVERSARY

WHAT’S GOING ON • Start the year as you mean to go on – by getting the most out of being the owner of a Land Rover

ADVENTURE CLUB

STUFF

USED & ABUSED

‘I suffer from SAD, and living with Land Rovers has been a salvation because I have something constructive to do’

‘It’s the only Land Rover I have that I could take into big cities these days, what with their increasingly stringent emission laws’

‘Perhaps even more serious was their insistence on specifying the VM engine for the diesel Discovery’

the LRO Advebture trail

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

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH • Morocco’s amazing landscapes can be like exploring another planet. John Pearson launches himself into an adventure in the Atlas Mountains and Sahara Desert

ALL DECKED OUT • Jean Philippe Merlin has turned his rare export 110 into his perfect overland Defender – with 130in wheelbase, 2.8 Tdi power – and an outdoor deck, of course

Tow truck with a twist • John Allen took an abandoned ’yard ornament’ and rebuilt it into his personal vision of the perfect tow truck

SELF-PRESERVATION • Geoffrey Miller bought his Range Rover Classic brand-new in 1985 – and, in the long years since, he’s pulled out all the stops to keep it original

THE RIGHT VEHICLE IN THE RIGHT PLACE • Living on a farm in Cumbria means Christopher gets to use his Land Rover as the company intended

1982 TO B (OR NOT TO B); THAT IS THE QUESTION • James recalls a curious – and still unexplained – occurrence from the intriguing world of vehicle identification numbers

THE FLYING SCOTSMAN • Helicopter pilot Norman McDonald has a new ‘best friend’ – his Black Dog

Spade andTerrain Response in perfect harmony

‘WE FOUGHT TO THE FINISH’ • Helen recruits a buddy to make it double the fun when taking on the challenge of a new Moroccan rally-raid in the refreshed 110

IT’S LETTING ME DOWN – LITERALLY • John is getting that sinking feeling with his 2020 L663 Defender, while his 2002 world-travelling 110 gets some shiny new storage cabinets

YOUR QUERIES ANSWERED

WILL IT BE YOURS NEXT? • Land Rover theft is a long-running problem that has never gone away – but the industry is doing its best to provide owners with protection. Russ Brown rounds up the latest products, and some great advice too

KEY KIT

REPLACE TDV6 FUEL PUMP • Russ Brown tackles the infuriatingly...