It took Land Rover 22 years to build anything other than the original Land Rover, but it was the Range Rover that set the company up to become what it is today.
Until 1970 Land Rover sold leaf sprung utility vehicles, as Land Rover would claim, in every country on the planet except Albania and North Vietnam. Cheap and easy to make, they were (and still are) profitable with a huge guaranteed market in the military.
But the British Leyland quality crisis of the '70s began the terminal dama...
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