Gerry McGovern, Land Rover’s Director of Design, has offered fans of the marque a little morsel of information about the upcoming revamp of the Defender model line. McGovern, in a statement to Automotive News, says that “People will know it's a Defender, it's a modern Defender. But it will bear no resemblance [to the concepts Land Rover has shown in recent years].”

Following the closure of the historic Dunlop Motorsport factory in Castle Bromwich, UK last year, Jaguar Land Rover has purchased the property and is planning to utilize it for further expansion of its base in north Birmingham.

Londoners were more than likely surprised to see a one-off-Land Rover Defender-based ‘London Taxi' tooling around the capital. The Defender was being filmed for a commemorative piece celebrating the iconic vehicle and promoting the coming auction of the 2,000,000th Defender. The charity auction will be December 16^th, 2015 at Bonhams New Bond Street headquarters.

The Australia 2015 Land Rover Experience Tour has just finished, covering 3,613 kilometers over the last three weeks.

The tour took 19 Land Rovers across desert and mountainous terrain and traversed the entire length of Australia's Northern Territory. The trip ended at UNESCO World Heritage Site, Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock.

Jaguar Land Rover has, according to sources, initiated a series of programs designed to cut costs amounting to 4.5 billion pounds, ($6.8 billion) and to build a total of 1 million cars per year by 2020.

This past weekend, a handful of Land Rover owners traveled from as far as Ontario and Washington DC to a small farm in Upstate New York, to participate in the annual Guy Fawkes Day Land Rover gathering.

This little known, unofficial event has been taking place for over a decade, started by organizer Howard Smith in the early 2000's. Attendance can vary, and although this year's turnout was a bit on the small side, it seems a good time was shared by all. Being in upstate New York, in November, the weather and trail conditions are somewhat unpredictable.

In the face of negative publicity surrounding diesel engines after the VW debacle back in September , Jaguar Land Rover North America is moving forward with its multi-vehicle diesel strategy in the U.S, says JLRNA President and CEO, Joe Eberhardt.

Jaguar Land Rover experienced a drop in sales during the second quarter of 2015, and is blaming at least part of the slump on damage caused by the massive blast at the Chinese port city of Tanjin this August.

In preparation for the official launch of their Evoque convertible, Land Rover has taken its newest vehicle through a series of rigorous off road tests to ensure that its handling is on a par with the standard that the luxury SUV brand is known for.

After the release of publicity photos showing wire frame sculptures of the Evoque rag tops posed in front of iconic London locations, Land Rover have now released video of some of the off road tests to demonstrate that its newest product “will be the most capable convertible in the world.”

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) North America has just announced a recall of 856 Rover and Range Rover Sport vehicles. The recall addresses a defect in the latch for the second row seats on 2015 model year vehicles, manufactured during a short period from June 2, 2015, to June 11, 2015.

The Rover owners Association of Virginia holds their Mid Atlantic rally every year somewhere in Virginia, this year the festivities took place at Wheatland Farm in Southwestern VA, the same site that has been in use since 2013.

The one thing the mar has become known for, other than fun and four wheeling is rain, and mud. Lots of mud. Not just any mud but thick, sticky, red Virginia clay type of mud.

Last week, Londoners woke up to wireframe sculptures of Land Rover’s new Range Rover Evoque Convertible mysteriously parked on the city’s streets.

The full scale sculptures were placed in iconic London locations and then photographed with the famous London landmarks as a backdrop.

Ratan Tata, Chairman of Jaguar Land Rover parent company Tata Trusts, and Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, Chairman and Founder of Warwick University’s Warwick Manufacturing Group, or WMG as it is now known, have been made Honorary Freemen of the City of Coventry, UK. Coventry is seated in the West Midlands, home to both Land Rover and Jaguar.

The Land Rover Discovery, or as we know it in the US, the LR4, has been declared “Tow Car of the Year” by the UK’s “Caravan Club.” Discovery bested 43 other models to win the honor, completing a series of grueling tests that included towing up a steep incline, a hill start and demonstrating the ease with which it can be maneuvered to hitched up to the trailer.

As part of its Display at the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show, JLR unveiled its creations that will be appearing in the new James Bond adventure film, “SPECTRE.”

The custom-built Bond vehicles, a Range Rover Sport SVR, a Land Rover Defender and a Jaguar C-X75, were revealed to the public September 15^th in special event at Frankfurt’s Thurn und Taxis Palace.