For practical reasons – due to post-war shortage of steel and surplus of aluminium, brothers decided to use anti-corrosive aluminium alloys as body liner.
New Range Rover was considered a vehicle for amateurs among the fans of the Land Rover. Many of them had doubts that new car was as reliable as the previous model. All doubts were dispelled two years later, when a number of Range Rover vehicles, managed by a group of British soldiers under the command of Major John Blashford-Snell, made a rally from Anchorage, Alaska to the Argentine city of Ushuaia. The British Trans-Americas Expedition of 1972 became the first vehicle-based expedition to traverse the Americas from north-to-south, including traversing the roadless Darién Gap.
Introduced in 2005, Range Rover Sport is a mid-size luxury sport utility vehicle (SUV). It is considered Land Rover’s best model as far as dynamic performance and car handling are concerned.