Land Rover Logo — Land Rover is a British car brand. It arose from the Land Rover SUV range of the manufacturer Rover. Rover in 1966 part of the state organization of the British car manufacturer British Leyland. 1978 Land Rover into a separate company within the group Jaguar Rover Triumph in 1994 it became the first German car manufacturer BMW sold. Since 2000, belonged to the company (along with Jaguar and Volvo, as well as to early 2007, Aston Martin) for the Premier Automotive Group of the American Ford Group, which in March 2008, India’s Tata group sold.
In addition to the company are also the vehicles, in particular, the successor to the original series, the Defender, but occasionally the other three product lines, Range Rover, Discovery and Freelander, colloquially, “Landy” known. The name Land Rover appeared in 1947 in the early days of prototype development and has been maintained. Until 1980 the name with a hyphen or as one word was written. Since 1980, the official spelling of two words without a hyphen. More