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found myself on Land Rover’s own website this month, primarily to check some figures on their rapid SVO products you can read about further on in this issue. However, it wasn’t any form of statistics on the website that left an impression on my little brain. Instead, I felt a genuinely strong sense of absence as I peered through their selection of vehicles and the name Defender was nowhere to be seen. Now, my brain isn’t so tiny to have only just cottoned on to the fact the Defender isn’t with us anymore, but something clicked in my mind and a thought registered inside me that it just doesn’t feel right seeing the Land Rover family without a Defender reppin’ the traditional Green Oval workhorse ethic. I know it will return in the not too distant future (rumours are being banded around that the new incarnation will be launched at next year’s Geneva Motor Show) but that doesn’t make it any easier now. This feeling wasn’t helped by driving a lovely original 1984 Land Rover 90 County Station Wagon soon after my web surfing, with this particular example being part of the wonderful Dunsfold Collection. You can view pictures of it on their website, but we’ll be running a full feature on it in The Landy at some point in the future. Sitting inside it and rekindling my appreciation for County spec seats, I just felt this urge to be impatient, to become a toddler demanding its next toy – I want Land Rover to be producing a Defender again. And I want them to do it now. Until that moment comes once again, the world – through my eyes at least – just won’t feel right. Mike Trott, Editor michael.trott@ assignment-media.co.uk
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