Land Rover Monthly

MARKET NEWS: Defenders in demand

HERE in the UK we often pause to marvel at the ever-rising values of old-style Defenders, demand for which never seems to abate. But the prices these vehicles fetch in America knocks them into a cocked hat.

There’s nothing the Yanks love better than a Land Rover. Our great statesman, Winston Churchill (whose mum was American), once quipped

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