Land Rover became a company in 1978, when British Leyland split it out of Rover.[1] The marque is thirty years older than that, and so is some of its best-known work: the Range Rover was launched in 1970 by Rover, eight years before the company that now owns the name existed.
Brand
Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC
- Founded
- 1978
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Nameplates
- 1
Identity
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1978
- Website
- www.landrover.com
Nameplates (1)
Computed from every entry that names this brand, never a hand-maintained list. Each nameplate is a hub over its own generations.
Cars (1)
Every generation and halo trim from this brand, with the figures each one carries. Sort by any column; a car we have not sourced a figure for sorts last rather than as a zero.
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Body style
Era
| Range Rover Classic | 1970–1996 | 101 kW | — | 153 km/h | 1,996 kg |
Sources & attribution
- Last verified
- 2026-08-18
- Origin axis
- United Kingdom
Logo: File:Land Rover 2023.svg · Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC. Displayed unmodified to identify this manufacturer's own vehicles, editorially and without any suggestion of endorsement or affiliation. Commons records the file as public domain for copyright purposes with an explicit 'trademarked' restriction; the basis for display here is trademark nominative use, not a copyright licence.
Accent colour: An editorial approximation of the green Land Rover has used on its oval badge for most of the marque's life. No public brand-colour specification exists, so this is not presented as an official brand asset.
References
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Land Rover. Wikipedia · revision 1357736984 · read 2026-08-18
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