We’ve all come to love and recognise the Defender’s boxy silhouette (not to mention its crushing off-road ability!) but with UK production coming to a halt at the end of this year and a likely more curvaceous predecessor waiting in the wings, the folks at Land Rover saw fit to give its iconic off-roader a poignant send-off.
In a nod to Land Rover founder Maurice Wilks’s sketch of a utility vehicle that was to become the Defender in the sands of Red Wharf Bay in Angelsey, UK, some 68 years ago, Land Rover and a team of sand artists in six generations of defender ambitiously returned to that spot to recreate that image…Only a bit bigger…one-kilometer across, to be exact.
Not only did the team have to steer a very precise course but they also had to contend with an impending tide that sought to wash their labours away.
