Under the agreement, Bowler will get access to powertrain and chassis components along with tech and development support from Land Rover. Bowler will provide Land Rover with access to its knowledge of extreme performance-oriented engineering.
Land Rover is returning to Dakar! Well, sort of. In truth, Land Rover is sponsoring a team of wounded soldiers racing under the Race2Recovery banner. Race2Recovery's mission isn't just racing the Dakar Rally come January of next year. The organization will be raising money for Help for Heroes and the Tedworth House Personnel Recovery Centre.
On this edition of the RoverGuide Rewind, we zap back to January of this year when we interviwed Bruce Elfstrom, CEO of Overland Experts. This article was originally posted January 20th, 2012, and is a must-read for anybody interested in off-roading or expedition travel.
Land Rover's Journey of Discovery rolled into Beijing, China, just in time for the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition. Over the course of the 50 day journey that started on February 29th at the Solihull plant where the 1,000,000th Discovery was built, the team has visited 13 countries and visited 78 cities.
Land Rover is using the 2012 New York International Auto Show to help celebrate its 25th anniversary in North America. While the usual vehicles are on display, including the convertible version of the Range Rover Evoque, we were most drawn to the new DC100. The vehicle now sports its most expeditionary look yet.