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Search Jeep Wrangler, to launch a Land Rover in and the Land Rover hasn’t been a Mercedes G-Class and Toyota LINE MANAGEMENT Namibia. Not because of the ubiquitous, everyman’s vehicle for Land Cruiser and you’ll find their barrenness, what with it being most of this century. makers all file them under ‘SUV’, but In 2017, I drove from London to the second least densely populated And so, as with the modern Mini, Bräutigam has stripped out the term Slovakia to see a piece of flat country on earth, having a land mass the Fiat 500 and the new Beetle, the in Defender literature. Land Rover ground on which 4000 people were three and a half times the UK’s but reinvention comes. Not an easy task. would like you to think this is the constructing a 300,000m2 factory only 2.5 million inhabitants. Not “All of our marketing blah-blah about real deal, a Land Rover like no other. that would have an output of because the terrain is challenging reinventing an icon is true, I think,” “Land Rover is a three-legged stool 150,000 cars a year. The Discovery and so vast that there’s a national says Felix Bräutigam, Jaguar Land again,” he says. was slated for production there at park the size of Belgium. Rover’s chief commercial officer, Is it like the old one? If you the time, with Land Rover – which No, it’s because the default car of who has joined us for the drive and, imagine Land Rover development hadn’t announced this Defender choice is a Toyota. having worked at Porsche (and with had continued in, say, Porsche 911 then – staying schtum about what It’s not that you don’t see Land a 911 GT3 RS 4.0 and the last-ever or Honda Civic style, with regular else would come, but it wasn’t Rovers. Walk around the capital, manual Jaguar F-Type in his garage), updates and model cycles and some hard to work out. Windhoek, and you’ll find Range I think you’d like him a lot. technology step during each one, is Today, the Defender and Rovers as you will everywhere money “The 60-second elevator pitch this where you’d end up? Discovery, based on similar lives, but out in the wilds – and for the Defender is ‘capability’,” I don’t think so: the new Defender, architecture, roll back to back Namibia is second only to Mongolia he says. “This is not a sport utility one of the most capable vehicles on down the same Nitra production when it comes to wilds – the Hilux is vehicle. It’s a 4x4.” earth though it may be, is pitched line. Outline plans and permission king. Namibia is a country where four Interesting distinction, and not where the previous Defender left off, does exist to double the factory’s in 10 brand-new cars are Toyotas, one I often make. What else is a 4x4, as a premium want-vehicle, not as ◊ size and output, although with where it used to be a much higher where the world is at the minute, percentage than that, and where who knows when that’s likely. the Hilux’s capability and longevity Replaying that drive today, mean that, in the places you’d really consisting of mile after mile of want to test a Defender, the cars motorway, the Discovery would that aren’t Hiluxes are other beaten- probably remain the choice.