People in the know always rave on about how the Land Rover Defender is next-to unparalelled when it comes to dealing with off-road driving.

However, since it doesn’t have any electronic aids, like Land Rover’s more modern products, you need some skill and technique to make the most of its abilities.

There’s no better place to learn these skills than the Land Rover Experience program. It gives you a course, and an instructor and away you go through increasingly treacherous obstacles, most of which involve mud, water or steep inclines or a combination of the three.

Even if the Defender is going out of production, its simplicity and ruggedness mean it will still be used for many decades to come. The new one is announcing to be a much more tech-focused affair, and all it will really share with this old one is its retro-inspired styling.

Here’s XCar with why the current Defender is so great!

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