Land Rover is designed and engineered in GT. Britain and is a British icon, but we still sold it to TATA Motors in India. I just don’t understand why so much British innovation ends up in foreign ownership. Nevertheless, it’s good to see these old Landies loved and looked after. 🇬🇧
@@michaelhart895 The problem with selling off British manufacturing to foreign conglomerates, at some point those bad decisions made will come back to bite us. For instance, Tata Motors is threatening to flounce off to Spain instead, unless it receives half a billion pounds of state aid to help bankroll the Jaguar Land Rover plant. That’s why it’s wrong and that’s why Britain needs to protect its own, just like Germany and Japan protect theirs from foreign takeovers.
@@lg_believe333 I couldn’t agree more , certainly not defending what’s happened, I am an Engineer and have witnessed the decline first hand since serving my apprenticeship in the very late 1970s and early 1980s . Most people in this country couldn’t give a toss where something is made if they can save a few quid . Sadly the politicians care even less , how many times have politicians of any party ,stopped an important , ground breaking ,world leading company or innovation from being floated and sold off to the highest foreign bidder . They usually come out with the usual promises of job security promises from the new owners etc , only for twelve months later for the company to be asset stripped, broken up and shut down . Like I said it’s money, the few at the top in the city etc , making a killing .
@@michaelhart895 So true what you say. I have a lot of respect for you being an engineer in GT. Britain, when engineering in this great country has a cultural problem and a marketing problem because so many youngsters nowadays view a career in engineering in the U.K. isn’t so great, in terms of job security, which is why so many engineering graduates end up doing other things when they graduate. Although, many British people have no idea how innovative the U.K. really is, and how much this small country contributes to the advancement of our world. It’s like, just because ordinary folk no longer see everyday products on our high street, like they would when they see a Japanese tv or a German built BMW, people assume we manufacture nothing and we are no longer relevant, when in reality GT. Britain specialises in high tech manufacturing, like Rolls Royce Nuclear Reactors or Jet Engines, or JCB'S £100 million pound investment in a project to produce super-efficient hydrogen engines which is a world first as some examples. But on the downside, Arm which is a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge, England, who manufacture most of the chips we now see in smart phones around the globe, including iPhones, is now foreign owned. Our tech industry is flourishing, and the U.K. has the potential to rival Silicon Valley in the US, but our biggest problem isn’t our lack of expertise but rather our ability to scale up a great idea and turn it into an Apple iPhone or other because the infrastructure isn’t there, and neither is the funding to protect these innovative firms from foreign takeovers. In Japan and America they protect their tech, and there’s no way a British firm could purchase them, so why can they purchase ours? Margaret Thatcher supported the free market, but in reality it’s not a free market, when the market is one sided. Also, the amount of british technology that ends up in Chinese hands is disgraceful, when we end up importing those new technologies back into the U.K. as Chinese made products.
Lucky me I have two of them: one is 49 years old and the other a youngster at 14. They epitomise everything British- designed on the fly, seemingly assembled by workers scrabbling around in a junk yard for bits and pieces, the aerodynamics of a house brick, the turning circle of a cruise liner, constantly leaking rainwater onto your feet, noisy, uncomfortable, thirsty and held together by random screws bolts and rivets like the ones you find in your grandad’s garden shed. But, and it’s a big BUT, they are as stubborn as a Bulldog, they never give up and they are have that quintessential charm of a rickety old cottage with crooked doors and floors. Nothing compares.
A great celebration of Brits mucking up another company and having to sell it abroad. Notice how the French, Germans, Italians, they all kept at least some of their car manufacturers...they operated in cooperation with the government, sometimes with far too much cooperation. Meanwhile British government, unions, everyone...even the management of the companies did their best to ruin everything.
my daughter worked and lived in Malaysia a few years ago ,seven years ago we went out to visit her in Kuala Lumpar then we went north to the Cameron Highlands for a visit ,I have always had landrovers on the farm but i have never seen so many as in cameron highlands ,huge number from 60s and 70s models to up to date .one day sitting on a bus i started counting the ones we passed ,stopped after 20 minutes when i reached 300
I have always loved the land rover i first experienced driving one at the age of 16 in 1966 on a farm my first job it had a canvas roof i think it helped with my driving skills
This is the best way to learn history. It's way better than being in a classroom being told about it by a teacher, however, well meaning said teacher may be
Disgrace that Land Rover have completely ignored its utilitarian roots with new defender is a disgrace as no pick up cab and chassis option! Was farmers and utility favorite that has been a market entirely gifted too the competition! The asset striping of British industry continues still!
Tata have now decided to drop the Land Rover name and you will only buy a Range Rover, Defender or Discovery minus the Land Rover name. It's because they say the name isn't cool enough for the techy gen X,Y, Z people now.
@@bentullett6068 Absolute divys hope JLR is the next British brand for the history books and I'm a British car guy! Only drive British built cars but old ones from the 80's and 90's when I was born and grew up!
@Micks rovers MG its sad as I live in the area the Land Rover factory is based and I love all of the old utilitarian vehicles they built. The new cars are complex electronic fashion accessories.
What made the land rover the best, is now lost, but my self and many other still have a real land rover, if you buy a real land rover you don't need to buy another
I know the feeling. I am personally restoring two Land Rover discoverys and have a collection of Land Rover models. I also have recently acquired a Land Rover Unimog.
I've been a Land Rover fan since passing my test in a Lightwieght in 1984. It's such a shame they are now producing vehicles with worldwide known issues like DPFs, steering rack bolts etc. For the first time in my 39 year driving history, I am seriously considering changing my brand loyalty. Great video though. I'd love to own a lightwieght just to play around in.
My first off roader was and still is Austin Champ, Genuine Roll's Royce engine, In my humble opinion better than Landrover in almost all situations!! Its a labour of love to keep her in great condition, Have driven over 300,000 miles here and abroad, And once in the South of France one summer in 2008 a business man offered to buy my beloved for £80,000 pounds, I said he couldn't buy the Engine for sort of a low offer!!! I have had it valued by Haynes who gave an estimated price of half a million!!!
As a former owner of many Series 2, Series 3, Defender, Discovery and Range Rover's l can say that Land Rover products were designed and built as working machines not cars. The conversion to "more comfortable cars" hasn't helped the brand. Its softened it, made more unreliable, more expensive and diluted it from what it was, came from and shoukd be. Only the Range Rover and Discovery should be in comfortable softies. The current Defender has been designed to kill off the working mans vehicle to create a new car type brand.
Not a single 101 in sight? I’ve gone full circle. Started with a 109 LWB series 3 safari with the 6 cylinder engine and 12 seats! Then a 88 SWB series 3 safari with 7 seats. Then a 110 defender Td5 double crew cab Then a 90 defender SWB TD5 XS and now a 1975 101GS. Which one was the best? The Td5XS Which one did/do I enjoy the most? The 101 of course. And the new defender? Electronic plastic fantastic….imho. No thanks.
Now owned by an Indian company. Sold off to the highest bidder. We dont make these anymore. The brand new model of this iconic British car is now made in ... FRANCE. What a farce !
Yes the one at the Amsterdam motor show was sitting on a willys jeep chassis and undercarriage so the story that we have been told is absolute fake as it just been a copy of the jeep
The first Chassis "Rover" (Pilot-Production Chassis) dates 24 /February/1948. HUE 166 is the Chassis R01(RHD) 11/March/1948. HNX128 is L05 Chassis (RHD) 28/April/1948 is the model that was on the Stand, but there were three to Holland, another was SNX910 L07 Chassis from 27/April/1948, later converted to chassis R07 (RHD).
Early models were great. Post circa 1990 Land Rover Defender earned the badge of one of the most unreliable 4x4s ever. Give me a Land Cruiser any day of the week
I clearly remember Jeremy Clarkson and team travelling in the outback in Australia testing using then popular 4×4 vehicles the land-rover discovery Broke down first, Top Dog was and still is Toyota Landcurser!!
I’ve been Land Rover mad all my life and still use them for work and pleasure… unfortunately I’ve got to the point in my life where there’s nothing Land Rover produces which I would even bother to entertain! The company are as WOKE as they come and I wish them all the crap the world can through at them! The Wilks Brothers would be ashamed of how their beloved Land Rover is in 2023! It was always about simplicity!
@@micksroversmg558 unfortunately it’s customers like the farmers who turned their backs on Land Rover before Land Rover turned their backs on them! They started using the pick up trucks a good few years before they stopped making the true Defender.. why wouldn’t they I suppose, they don’t care what it is nowadays as long as it lasts a few years and cheap.. they then buy another after 5 years, even farmers have fallen for the company image crap now! Lol When I was doing my apprenticeship on land rovers in the early 90s we had a farmer who was still using his 1965 series 2A as work truck and was still giving great service.. so many difficult factors unfortunately mate but it was always on the cards with the new world order denationalising the UK.. The EU gave JLR a massive financial boost for them to set the new plant up in Slovakia, that was it for me then!
Thank you very much for a potentially-interesting documentary. However, you've committed the unforgivable sin of turning your supposed, "Land Rover," show into a show about your host, and his conversation mate! You've displayed some very tedious footage of two men talking, while you could have been SHOWING US THE LAND ROVERS! Why did we need to see two men talking, when you have only nine minutes and thirty-two seconds you could have devoted to footage of LAND ROVERS! Why not dub their conversation over footage of LAND ROVERS, of which vehicles you've shown us comparatively little! We might well have merely listened to a radio program, for all the LAND ROVERS you've shown us! Please, don't confuse our interest in LAND ROVERS, with a supposed interest in your host, fascinating, though he may be. Your guests' now exhausted nine and a half minutes weren't intended for such an overwhelmingly interesting individual; we were in fact more interested in the less-interesting vehicles.
So its a copy of the Jeep, more or less, but with the added corrosion and bad build of the British car industry….then sold off while singing Rule Britannia and waving the Union flag. If you’ve ever owned one you’ll know how fast they corrode too.
Get a life, mate. You clicked on it. You're on youtube, you're not too busy or too poor to be breaking your back on a croft trying to grow enough food to survive.
Honestly, the things he gets up to. Living the dream baby.
I am so lucky....bought my landrover brand new aged 23 soon as I could aford one...a 1975 S3 88"
Still own it to this day....its still in use.
Land Rover is designed and engineered in GT. Britain and is a British icon, but we still sold it to TATA Motors in India. I just don’t understand why so much British innovation ends up in foreign ownership. Nevertheless, it’s good to see these old Landies loved and looked after. 🇬🇧
Money , it’s as simple as that .
@@michaelhart895 The problem with selling off British manufacturing to foreign conglomerates, at some point those bad decisions made will come back to bite us. For instance, Tata Motors is threatening to flounce off to Spain instead, unless it receives half a billion pounds of state aid to help bankroll the Jaguar Land Rover plant. That’s why it’s wrong and that’s why Britain needs to protect its own, just like Germany and Japan protect theirs from foreign takeovers.
@@lg_believe333 I couldn’t agree more , certainly not defending what’s happened, I am an Engineer and have witnessed the decline first hand since serving my apprenticeship in the very late 1970s and early 1980s .
Most people in this country couldn’t give a toss where something is made if they can save a few quid . Sadly the politicians care even less , how many times have politicians of any party ,stopped an important , ground breaking ,world leading company or innovation from being floated and sold off to the highest foreign bidder . They usually come out with the usual promises of job security promises from the new owners etc , only for twelve months later for the company to be asset stripped, broken up and shut down . Like I said it’s money, the few at the top in the city etc , making a killing .
If an 8oz jar of English Lemon Curd in the USA is $9 can you imagine what a Land Rover would cost? The tariffs from GB to USA are astronomical.
@@michaelhart895 So true what you say. I have a lot of respect for you being an engineer in GT. Britain, when engineering in this great country has a cultural problem and a marketing problem because so many youngsters nowadays view a career in engineering in the U.K. isn’t so great, in terms of job security, which is why so many engineering graduates end up doing other things when they graduate. Although, many British people have no idea how innovative the U.K. really is, and how much this small country contributes to the advancement of our world. It’s like, just because ordinary folk no longer see everyday products on our high street, like they would when they see a Japanese tv or a German built BMW, people assume we manufacture nothing and we are no longer relevant, when in reality GT. Britain specialises in high tech manufacturing, like Rolls Royce Nuclear Reactors or Jet Engines, or JCB'S £100 million pound investment in a project to produce super-efficient hydrogen engines which is a world first as some examples. But on the downside, Arm which is a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge, England, who manufacture most of the chips we now see in smart phones around the globe, including iPhones, is now foreign owned. Our tech industry is flourishing, and the U.K. has the potential to rival Silicon Valley in the US, but our biggest problem isn’t our lack of expertise but rather our ability to scale up a great idea and turn it into an Apple iPhone or other because the infrastructure isn’t there, and neither is the funding to protect these innovative firms from foreign takeovers. In Japan and America they protect their tech, and there’s no way a British firm could purchase them, so why can they purchase ours? Margaret Thatcher supported the free market, but in reality it’s not a free market, when the market is one sided. Also, the amount of british technology that ends up in Chinese hands is disgraceful, when we end up importing those new technologies back into the U.K. as Chinese made products.
Brilliant!💕💕💕
Lucky me I have two of them: one is 49 years old and the other a youngster at 14. They epitomise everything British- designed on the fly, seemingly assembled by workers scrabbling around in a junk yard for bits and pieces, the aerodynamics of a house brick, the turning circle of a cruise liner, constantly leaking rainwater onto your feet, noisy, uncomfortable, thirsty and held together by random screws bolts and rivets like the ones you find in your grandad’s garden shed. But, and it’s a big BUT, they are as stubborn as a Bulldog, they never give up and they are have that quintessential charm of a rickety old cottage with crooked doors and floors. Nothing compares.
A great celebration of Brits mucking up another company and having to sell it abroad.
Notice how the French, Germans, Italians, they all kept at least some of their car manufacturers...they operated in cooperation with the government, sometimes with far too much cooperation. Meanwhile British government, unions, everyone...even the management of the companies did their best to ruin everything.
Great feature. These are from the times when Great Britain was Great. These places must be retained.
How very English, I love it.🇬🇧🏴
and by that you mean . . . . ?
@@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361 Weren’t those two English gentlemen a treat to listen to.🇬🇧🏴
MP is a brilliant presenter.... more please! and the Landrover video is great too
Marvellous a true legend!
Amazing!!!
I bought a 59 series two when I was 19, im 52 now and still have it, il never sell it
Lovey lovely cars😊
LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some of these will be at a show I’m going to in my 130, can’t wait to see what they bring.
Superb 👌
This was great. More of this, GBNews!
Love Michael ❤
Love this!
my daughter worked and lived in Malaysia a few years ago ,seven years ago we went out to visit her in Kuala Lumpar then we went north to the Cameron Highlands for a visit ,I have always had landrovers on the farm but i have never seen so many as in cameron highlands ,huge number from 60s and 70s models to up to date .one day sitting on a bus i started counting the ones we passed ,stopped after 20 minutes when i reached 300
I have always loved the land rover i first experienced driving one at the age of 16 in 1966 on a farm my first job it had a canvas roof i think it helped with my driving skills
I think if you can drive a series Landy, you can drive anything!👌
This is the best way to learn history. It's way better than being in a classroom being told about it by a teacher, however, well meaning said teacher may be
I took my driving test in a 3/4 ton FFR as a crow in the 70s! 😉
Great video about a great vehicle, enjoyed watching.
Disgrace that Land Rover have completely ignored its utilitarian roots with new defender is a disgrace as no pick up cab and chassis option! Was farmers and utility favorite that has been a market entirely gifted too the competition! The asset striping of British industry continues still!
Tata have now decided to drop the Land Rover name and you will only buy a Range Rover, Defender or Discovery minus the Land Rover name. It's because they say the name isn't cool enough for the techy gen X,Y, Z people now.
Yes, what a load of nonsense.
@@bentullett6068 Absolute divys hope JLR is the next British brand for the history books and I'm a British car guy! Only drive British built cars but old ones from the 80's and 90's when I was born and grew up!
@Micks rovers MG its sad as I live in the area the Land Rover factory is based and I love all of the old utilitarian vehicles they built. The new cars are complex electronic fashion accessories.
What made the land rover the best, is now lost, but my self and many other still have a real land rover, if you buy a real land rover you don't need to buy another
Portillo is the best PM we never had. The skeletons wouldn’t be an issue today.
I drove so many Series 2 LRs I couldn't tell you how many! It was the first ever vehicle I drove !
I know the feeling. I am personally restoring two Land Rover discoverys and have a collection of Land Rover models. I also have recently acquired a Land Rover Unimog.
I've been a Land Rover fan since passing my test in a Lightwieght in 1984. It's such a shame they are now producing vehicles with worldwide known issues like DPFs, steering rack bolts etc. For the first time in my 39 year driving history, I am seriously considering changing my brand loyalty. Great video though. I'd love to own a lightwieght just to play around in.
I approve.
For once, something worth watching on GB News.
Yeah shame they messed up the audio.
It isn't that difficult.
My first off roader was and still is Austin Champ, Genuine Roll's Royce engine, In my humble opinion better than Landrover in almost all situations!! Its a labour of love to keep her in great condition, Have driven over 300,000 miles here and abroad, And once in the South of France one summer in 2008 a business man offered to buy my beloved for £80,000 pounds, I said he couldn't buy the Engine for sort of a low offer!!! I have had it valued by Haynes who gave an estimated price of half a million!!!
🤭😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Epic
R90HUE is ROGER CRATHORNE's 90 Soft Top Keswick Green, number 11 of the last 15 on the sad morning of Friday, January 29, 2016.😪
Australia is a big market for 4WD’s. Britain has gifted the market to the Japanese, Germans and now Chinese.
The floor won't ever rust.
Where did winstone Churchills Land Rover go to which was sold at cheffins vintage auction a few years ago ?
Foreign owned of course. Cheers 👍
Lovely little episode 😂
In the intro, is the presenter’s dainty apricot colour blazer a homemade number?😋
I wish Mr Portillo stayed in politics and was running for PM
As a former owner of many Series 2, Series 3, Defender, Discovery and Range Rover's l can say that Land Rover products were designed and built as working machines not cars.
The conversion to "more comfortable cars" hasn't helped the brand. Its softened it, made more unreliable, more expensive and diluted it from what it was, came from and shoukd be.
Only the Range Rover and Discovery should be in comfortable softies.
The current Defender has been designed to kill off the working mans vehicle to create a new car type brand.
Even after 75 years they haven’t got reliable engines till date!
Pls visit Gaydon plant and look into cheap components
Not a single 101 in sight?
I’ve gone full circle.
Started with a 109 LWB series 3 safari with the 6 cylinder engine and 12 seats!
Then a 88 SWB series 3 safari with 7 seats.
Then a 110 defender Td5 double crew cab
Then a 90 defender SWB TD5 XS
and now a 1975 101GS.
Which one was the best? The Td5XS
Which one did/do I enjoy the most? The 101 of course.
And the new defender? Electronic plastic fantastic….imho. No thanks.
But wait, what about the Austin Champ? It had a rolls royce engine. 4wd and 4 gears fwd and reverse.......
Is there a modern equivalent to the series one or two?
Yes called buy your own old one and rebuild it!
very poor coverage of the actual collection
We know what you two look like, show us the cars.
Brand has been screwed up by various owners since. G wagon in particular. Shogun Toyota etc.
You couldn't get any more Tory if you tried 😂😂😂
In engineering terms the modern Land-rover both engine and bodywork are an utter embarrassment.
I can't believe most of the history wasn't mentioned, pitiful.
Now owned by an Indian company. Sold off to the highest bidder. We dont make these anymore. The brand new model of this iconic British car is now made in ... FRANCE. What a farce !
I'm currently on my 11th LR and its true, they are the most overrated passenger vehicle ever manufactured in the history of motoring. Bar none.
Why have you had 11?
@@hetrodoxly1203 it's an illness that doctors can't figure out 😄
I know that bedall chap bit ov a plume voice but he s not bad chap he bought some humber box parts off me once good show what what
Portillo is such a ham.
No he is not he is a raging homosexual.
Yes the one at the Amsterdam motor show was sitting on a willys jeep chassis and undercarriage so the story that we have been told is absolute fake as it just been a copy of the jeep
The first Chassis "Rover" (Pilot-Production Chassis) dates 24 /February/1948. HUE 166 is the Chassis R01(RHD) 11/March/1948.
HNX128 is L05 Chassis (RHD) 28/April/1948 is the model that was on the Stand, but there were three to Holland, another was SNX910 L07 Chassis from 27/April/1948, later converted to chassis R07 (RHD).
Early models were great. Post circa 1990 Land Rover Defender earned the badge of one of the most unreliable 4x4s ever. Give me a Land Cruiser any day of the week
I clearly remember Jeremy Clarkson and team travelling in the outback in Australia testing using then popular 4×4 vehicles the land-rover discovery Broke down first, Top Dog was and still is Toyota Landcurser!!
Michael you are one sexy handsome man
I’ve been Land Rover mad all my life and still use them for work and pleasure… unfortunately I’ve got to the point in my life where there’s nothing Land Rover produces which I would even bother to entertain! The company are as WOKE as they come and I wish them all the crap the world can through at them! The Wilks Brothers would be ashamed of how their beloved Land Rover is in 2023! It was always about simplicity!
I'm with you no defender pick up is big slap in face of the farmers!
@@micksroversmg558 unfortunately it’s customers like the farmers who turned their backs on Land Rover before Land Rover turned their backs on them!
They started using the pick up trucks a good few years before they stopped making the true Defender.. why wouldn’t they I suppose, they don’t care what it is nowadays as long as it lasts a few years and cheap.. they then buy another after 5 years, even farmers have fallen for the company image crap now! Lol
When I was doing my apprenticeship on land rovers in the early 90s we had a farmer who was still using his 1965 series 2A as work truck and was still giving great service.. so many difficult factors unfortunately mate but it was always on the cards with the new world order denationalising the UK..
The EU gave JLR a massive financial boost for them to set the new plant up in Slovakia, that was it for me then!
Landrover, now one of the most unreliable vehicles ever made!
So sad but true😢
Thank you very much for a potentially-interesting documentary. However, you've committed the unforgivable sin of turning your supposed, "Land Rover," show into a show about your host, and his conversation mate! You've displayed some very tedious footage of two men talking, while you could have been SHOWING US THE LAND ROVERS! Why did we need to see two men talking, when you have only nine minutes and thirty-two seconds you could have devoted to footage of LAND ROVERS! Why not dub their conversation over footage of LAND ROVERS, of which vehicles you've shown us comparatively little! We might well have merely listened to a radio program, for all the LAND ROVERS you've shown us!
Please, don't confuse our interest in LAND ROVERS, with a supposed interest in your host, fascinating, though he may be. Your guests' now exhausted nine and a half minutes weren't intended for such an overwhelmingly interesting individual; we were in fact more interested in the less-interesting vehicles.
To much humor for my liking, pair of dry old cloggers
So its a copy of the Jeep, more or less, but with the added corrosion and bad build of the British car industry….then sold off while singing Rule Britannia and waving the Union flag. If you’ve ever owned one you’ll know how fast they corrode too.
Were in a cost of living crisis and this is your offering what a disgrace
Nip over to the BBC, they have a cooking show on.
Get a life, mate. You clicked on it. You're on youtube, you're not too busy or too poor to be breaking your back on a croft trying to grow enough food to survive.
Cost of living? People always seem to find the money for 4WD vehicles that never leave the tarmac.
Another of the 'pro africanisation' club gets to indulge his whimsical nature .. .isnt that sweet !
Pardon?
Alan HarGreaves - the voice spouting utter bollocks.
🥱🥱🥱🥱
My God, how boring.
I'm sure you're absolutely thrilling.