The Land Rover uses a 2.0-litre four-cylinder Rover engine which develops 52bhp and provides ample power for propelling a vehicle with a large frontal area at speeds approaching 60mph.
For normal road work the car can be regarded as a conventional rear-wheel drive vehicle. Under adverse conditions four-wheel drive may be brought into operation by moving a yellow-topped lever, while yet another lever operates the transfer box. This is kept in the forward position for all normal driving, but if it is moved to the rear position the overall top gear ratio is changed from 5.396 to 1 to 13.578 to 1 with corresponding torque multiplication for all the indirect ratios including reverse.
