2019 marks two significant anniversaries for the Land Rover Discovery, the do-it-all hero of the Land Rover lineup. It's 30 years since its launch in 1989 in most global markets, and 25 years since it entered the North American marketplace in 1994. To celebrate, we're going to take a two-part look back at the history of this significant Land Rover model this month.

To demonstrate the breadth of capability of the Range Rover Sport SVR, Land Rover has teamed with Motor Trend to produce a three-part video series pitting it in a series of races on mountains, tracks, and ice against some of the world's best racers.

Land Rover has confirmed their plans to manufacture batteries for their electric future, including opening a new facility in England's West Midlands.
 

In the early 2000s, Max Thomason saw a photo on the Internet of a Series IIa 88" Land Rover descending Colorado's Black Bear Pass. The truck was teetering precariously on the iconic switchbacks looking over Telluride. He decided that he had to go there and see it for himself. Finally, this past summer, he got the chance, as part of a cross-country road trip from Atlanta to Colorado in his LR3.

Land Rover broke their United States sales record in 2018, moving 92,143 new trucks. This smashed the prior record from 2017 by a whopping 23 percent.

The full-size Range Rover and Range Rover Sport will now be available with a third fuel option -- a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), offering 31 miles of fully-electric range before switching to a gasoline-powered engine. The new powerplants go on sale in Summer 2019.

Death Valley is notorious as a very hot place -- the highest recorded temperature on Earth ever was recorded here, and new vehicles are tested here to see how they can handle the temperature abuse. But in winter, it's a cold, windy place -- and with far fewer visitors, a good place to spend the end of 2018 in a few old Land Rovers poking around.

Land Rover has confirmed that the camouflaged mules running around England the past few months are, in fact, the new Defender, and this new Defender will be coming to America, the first Defender to be sold here since 1997.

2018 has come to a close, and so has Land Rover's celebration of their 70th anniversary. It was a year with a lot of milestones, celebrations, special edition vehicles, and surprises. Let's take one last look back before we look forward to the 75th anniversary in 2023.

One of Land Rover's very first employees has been reunited with one of the trucks she worked on in the 1940s -- and somehow, it was the first Land Rover she's ever ridden in.

Tata Motors is preparing to launch its new Tata Harrier flagship SUV in the Indian market, based on the Discovery Sport.

The new Land Rover factory in Nitra, Slovakia is preparing to begin full-scale production on Discovery 5, and they will almost certainly be making the new Defender, the camouflaged mules of which are now running around England with spare tires bolted on the rear door.

British multi-billionaire and enormous Land Rover enthusiast Jim Ratcliffe’s plan to create a new off-road vehicle based on the original Defender has reached a new stage as it is reported they want to secure a factory by the end of the year.

The next generation of the best-selling Range Rover Evoque was launched on November 22nd, bringing new life to one of Land Rover's all-time bestselling models.

One of the most historic and original Series Land Rovers in existence, Series II chassis number 64, was stolen from its locked barn in Essex, England this month.