I know what you’re thinking. You’ve been on safari, maybe to somewhere like South Africa, and there simply isn’t a vehicle capable of keeping grannie, grandpa, you, the misses and the bread snappers away from the stuff that wants to have you for lunch. Well, help is at hand. Faced with a similar brief, those clever people who make “the best 4x4 by far” came up with this ingenious solution: A Land Rover Defender 110-based, seven door, twelve seat tour bus. And let’s face facts, it’s a tad more dignified than those retched American import things you see scantily-clad women projectile vomiting from on a Saturday night. Twenty five were built, all engineered by Land Rover Specialist Vehicles in Sollihull.
So when it came time to think about a tour bus for Halewood’s Experience centre, the powers that be thought a station wagon based on the South African concept would be just the thing. The centre section came from a donor vehicle, which had already completed a tour of duty with the Sollihull Experience as an off-road trainer. Since the initial build, LRE 3 has been refreshed with a host updated components, the last of which was a 07 MY bonnet. Sadly the super stretched Defender was never homologated, so it’s limited to the privately owned roads around the factory.
Whilst I’m on my Landie soap box, if you own one of the company’s excellent off-road vehicles, or maybe you’re just thinking about it, then why not book an Experience day? Details can be found here:
http://www.landrover.com/gb/en/lr/experience-land-rover/land-rover-experience/land-rover-experience. Or call 0151 448 4023.
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