SOLIHULL SAVIOURS
Followers of Land Rover history will remember the 1980s as a crucial decade for the Solihull-based marque. This was the era when the stalwart of the range – the good old ‘Series’ Land Rover – was finally usurped by a new range of coil-sprung models badged as the 90 and 110. And it was the decade when the Range Rover, unjustly neglected for the first ten years of its life, suddenly received the attention and upgrades it had always deserved.
The following decade would bring even more change, with the start of the ’90s seeing the 90/110 updated and rebadged as the Land Rover Defender, a name it would carry right through to the end of its career 26 years later. And of course, the 1990s also saw the launch of a second-generation Range Rover, with the newcomer – debuting in 1994 and codenamed P38A – finally meaning the end of the road for the original (now badged as
