Land Rover Design — 70 years of success

by Nick Hull

The Land Rover was born from a desperate need by the Rover Company to develop a stop-gap model to provide cashflow in the post-war years. The original aim of a simple 4x4 agricultural tool soon developed into a multi-purpose vehicle that became the mainstay of the British Army and produced numerous offshoots for the emergency services, police, forestry and aid agencies worldwide.

This book offers a detailed insight to the company's design story, from the early days of Land Rover in Solihull to the latest generation of the Range Rover Velar in 2018.

It details the personalities involved in the various projects since 1948 up to today: the designers, modellers and studio engineers. It charts the development of Land Rover and Range Rover projects in the UK, particularly those designed in the Gaydon studio that opened in 1996, and is still a key part of JLR's design resource. From the early days of chalk drawings and wooden models to today's digital renderings and milled clays for the latest Range Rover Evoque, Land Rover's designers and technicians have never been short of creativity. This book tells their story, in their own words, and is a fitting tribute to the spirit and ethos of Land Rover design and engineering.

Contents:

• 1947-1959: Early Days of Land Rover Design
• 1960-1979: David Bache era and Range Rover
• 1980-1989: Independence and Discovery
• 1990-1995: Canley studio and a new owner - BMW
• 1996-2000: Geoff Upex era and Gaydon studio
• 2001-2008: The Ford years
• 2008-2010: The arrival of Gerry McGovern and Tata
• 2011-2017: Rapid expansion of design activities
• Current Land Rover design
• Appendix 1: Glossary of design terms
• Appendix 2: Land Rover project code numbers

Land Rovers and Range Rovers covered:

• Land Rover Series I - 1948-1958
• Road Rover - 1952-1958
• Land Rover Series II - 1958-1961
• Land Rover Series IIA - 1961-1971
• Land Rover 109in Forward Control - 1962-1966
• Range Rover - 1970-1996
• Land Rover Series III - 1971-1985
• Land Rover One Ten - 1983-1990
• Land Rover Ninety - 1984-1990
• Land Rover Discovery Series 1 - 1989-1998
• Land Rover Defender 90 - 1990-2016
• Land Rover Defender 110 - 1990-2016
• Land Rover Defender 130 - 1990-2016
• Range Rover P38A - 1994-2001
• Land Rover Freelander 1 - 1997-2006
• Land Rover Discovery Series 2 - 1998-2004
• Range Rover L322 - 2001-2012
• Land Rover Discovery Series 3 - 2004-2009
• Range Stormer concept - 2004
• Range Rover Sport L320 - 2005-2013
• Land Rover Freelander LR2 - 2006-2014
• Land Rover LRX concept - 2009
• Land Rover Discovery Series 4 - 2009-2016
• Range Rover Evoque 2011-current
• Land Rover DC 100 concept - 2011
• Range Rover L405 - 2012-current
• Range Rover Sport L494 - 2013-current
• Land Rover Discovery Vision concept - 2014
• Land Rover Discovery Sport - 2014-current
• Land Rover Discovery Series 5 - 2016-current
• Range Rover Velar - 2017-current

Buch, Hardcover, 25 x 25 cm, 208 Seiten, 300 überwiegend farbige Abbildungen, englischer Text