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Watch As Classic Range Rovers Conquer The Colorado Rockies In 1989
Watch As Classic Range Rovers Conquer The Colorado Rockies In 1989-May 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:24

In 1989, Land Rover made history with The Great Divide Expedition, letting a bunch of lucky journalists from Commonwealth countries drive Range Rovers through Colorado, crossing a the Continental Divide in a roughly 1,000 mile journey.

Everybody knows Land Rover for their , but back in 1989, conservationist and Camel Trophy driver Tom Collins came up with a North American adventure.

Fantastic races can disappear for many reasons including politics, unsolvable safety issues,…

12 days, 1,128 miles of mostly unpaved (or worse) roads and classic Range Rovers crawling through the Rockies from the Wyoming border to northern New Mexico.

The best news? . That's very nice to see since times have changed and nowadays, it's pretty much all about building that can win the Horsepower Wars. Seeing Range Rovers get dirty again restores some of my faith in humanity.

In honor of heritage and marketing or whatever, Land Rover has completely recreated one of the…

Just grow a mustache if you enter. If the car is from 1989, you must be too.

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