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FOR THE EXPERIENCE

TRAVEL | Motoring

'The Experience' is what Jaguar Land Rover named three days of dirt-tracking around the Cederberg. Any ambiguity in the name was quickly dispelled as a fleet of eight new Defenders hit the road for a journey that spoke to the ethos of the new Defender: adventure, but not at the expense of luxury.

The Defender is an off-roading icon, and the impressive vehicles we took around the Cederberg find their heritage in the boxy silhouette of the old Series Land Rovers and Defenders. After discontinuing the Defender in 2015, Land Rover reinstated the badge in 2020, but in a very different guise. The world was introduced to the new Defender, which aimed to merge the off-roading pedigree

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