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Let’s get something straight. Land Rover’s Defender maybe an icon, but as for legendary — well, they weren’t very reliable. In this country, if you wanted to head off the beaten track, you got a Land Cruiser, preferably the workhorse version with its skinny tyres, part-time 4×4 and mechanical diff locks – with a bullbar and snorkel for good measure. It’s the car you invariably find parked in sheds on farms across the land. Land Rover calls this new car a Defender, but it doesn’t look or feel much like… Read more