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Land Rover Defender Luxury

Kitted out for action

If legends could be updated, David would have beaten Goliath with a sub-machine gun. So perhaps it's best that in the world of fable and fantasy at least, updates are considered sacrilege. Yet things rarely work the same way in the motor industry. Car manufacturers have to constantly modernise and improve their products if they are to stay ahead of the game, and exceptions are very few and far between.

By Craig Cheetham

July 2002

If legends could be updated, David would have beaten Goliath with a sub-machine gun. So perhaps it's best that in the world of fable and fantasy at least, updates are considered sacrilege. Yet things rarely work the same way in the mo-tor industry. Car manufacturers have to constantly modernise and improve their products if they are to stay ahead of the game, and exceptions are very few and far between.

One such vehicle, however, is still being built in time-honoured fashion in Solihull. Riveted together by hand, its bodywork has the aerodynamic grace of a concrete bomb shelter. But even the oldest swinger in town needs refreshing from time to time, so the Defender (which celebrates its 54th birthday this year) has lots of new-for-2002 enhancements, especially if you opt for the

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FIRST OPINION

    Improvements for 2002 haven't brought the Defender back up to date, but that's hardly the point. To many, it remains Britain's greatest motoring anachronism.
 

AT A GLANCE

    Defender 90 County Station Wagon, tested here, is
 
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