LRO is the world's biggest magazine dedicated entirely towards the Land and Range Rover enthusiast. Every issue you'll find our team of experts writing inspirational features on: - Adventure! Off-road adventures in some of the world's most spectacular countryside - Restoration! Inspiring tales of old Land and Range Rovers lovingly rescued and restored... - Maps! Tough tracks with OS maps for you to try - Rare models... find something unusual in every issue - Land Rovers and spare parts for sale... a fantastic range of parts & vehicles for sale, every month Plus the latest club news and events from around the world. Love Land Rovers? Love LRO!
WELCOME • The team behind the world’s best selling Land Rover magazine like nothing more than chilling around a campfire
DEFENDER DISCOVERY • Which is better? It’s a 30-year-old question that lives on, thanks to the latest incarnations. This test will help you decide where you stand
NORTH YORKSHIRE OFF ROAD CENTRE
WORLD OF LAND ROVERS • Send us your pics, win great kit!
IT’S BUSINESS ABNORMAL • The easing of Covid restrictions is welcome – but overlanding tour operators aren’t breathing a sigh of relief just yet
News in brief
NEW DEFENDER VANS TESTED AT HIGH SPUD • Martin Domoney takes on a vital mission delivering potatoes in Land Rover’s latest commercials
New updated Discovery
CLUB BRINGS DEATH VALLEY TO LIFE • Peter Matusov and some buddies from the Land Rover Club of San Diego steel themselves for a Californian desert adventure that promises thrills (definitely) and spills (if you don’t have your wits about you)
BEEN BACK TO THE PUB? HERE’S WHERE YOU CAN GO NEXT
ADVENTURE CLUB
STUFF • Latest products for your Land Rover
USED & ABUSED • Tested by the LRO team
‘Hitting the hazard lights makes the car disappear, and so the driver can perform whatever act of idiocy they want’
‘I drove that Series I all through one summer, and it was a real delight – the more I drove it, the more it loosened up’
‘Weird, wonderful or sometimes sensible, the things that people have done with Land Rovers continues to amaze me’
GET OUT THERE CAM PING • Many of us will be heading off to live out of our Land Rovers this summer – but what do you really need to take with you? We’ll help kit you out for adventure
THE LRO ADVENTURE TRAIL • The United Kingdom has some fantastic roads to drive. Many of them are greenlanes, allowing us to get away from regular traffic; others are joyous tarmac ribbons that snake over hills and across moors. In this new series we’ve joined them together to form the LRO Adventure Trail – a 3800-mile, family-friendly route that offers the best driving available with the bonus of some interesting places to visit. No matter where you live, you’ll never be far from the LRO Adventure Trail.
WHILE YOU’RE THERE • Places to stop along the route – the LRO Adventure Trail is about more than just the greenlanes.
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW • LRO’s greenlane rating takes into account such factors as length, scenery, terrain, driveability and local interest.
10 YEARS OF EXPLORING PORTUGAL • It’s a decade since John Pearson first went on a Portuguese adventure. He’s been back many times since, finding the best places to visit for great driving, wonderful scenery, sunshine and amazing food
Classic LRO • Owning, restoring and enjoying Series and Range Rover Classic legends
By Royal Appoinment • Many of the Land Rovers used by the Royal Family have been designed specially for them
Having a blast • Vicky Turner tells the story of a Land Rover modified -literally – to lessen the impact of driving over a landmine
I CAN’T STOP! • The old cliche goes that a project Land Rover is never...