The Last Ever Land Rover Defender Just Rolled Off The Production Line

The 2,016,933rd Land Rover Defender was built today, marking the end of an era for the old 4x4

29 Jan 2016

And here it is at 09.22 on 29th January, the last of the current Defenders comes off the production line @ Solihull pic.twitter.com/NjAzLcUi7Y
— Land Rover UK PR (@LandRoverUKPR) January 29, 2016

It’s been around in one form or another for 68 years, over 2 million have been built, and hundreds of different weird and wonderful variants have been conceived. But since all things must come to an end, so too must production of the long-serving Land Rover Defender, with today being the day the very last one rolled off the production line at Solihull.

Defender number 2,000,000 was auctioned last year for £400,000

This is probably something that should have happened a long time ago - the Defender is a vehicle that’s hopelessly outdated, noisy and challenging to live with - but still, it marks the end of an era, so the fanfare at Solihull today is understandable. What’s particularly interesting about all this is that Land Rover still hasn’t figured out what to replace the thing with - it’ll be intriguing to see what the company can come up with in the next few years.

The last #landrover rolls off the line pic.twitter.com/DCIVJpz8WR
— Richard Westcott (@BBCwestcott) January 29, 2016

For now though, all eyes are on that very last model - number 2,016,933 - a Defender 90 in Heritage spec. Looks handsome, no?

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

Top gear is gone, the defender is gone, what’s next ? Not a good way to start the year :(

bowie is gone, snape is gone

Paul Walker is gone, the Evo is gone, etc.

Goodbye, old friend.

I was expecting you to advertise in a hilarious way, perhaps, ‘Oh darn, your defender will only go up in value now, so why not protect it with Disklok UK?’