The specially modified Land Rover Defender 110 was driven by Steve Burgess and Dan Evans across the straits on its second attempt following the interruption of the first by bad weather.
Many of the vehicles have all-terrain capabilities such as Land Rover Defender field ambulances, Bedford and Iveco four-wheel drive lorries and Bandvagn 206 personnel carriers.
In a TV ad for the Land Rover Defender, a Defender 90 is seen winching up the face of the dam under its own power.
The town is home to the island's emergency services with one ambulance (Toyota Hilux operated by Camogli Hospital), fire engine (Land Rover Defender with small ladder) and police car (Land Rover Series).
The crash occurred at approximately 06:13 (GMT), when a Land Rover Defender towing a loaded trailer (carrying a Renault Savanna estate car) swerved off the M62 motorway just before a bridge over the East Coast Main Line.
Possibly the best known Special Edition was the Tomb Raider of 2000, built to commemorate Land Rover's role in the first film of that franchise.
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All of the vehicles were white (except one specifically painted black for Ralph Lauren).
The original inspiration for Lit Motors came to Kim in 2003, when he was nearly crushed by a chassis while manufacturing a bio-diesel Land Rover Defender 90.
A small farm upon the road that leads in that northerly direction called House of Mulben has also become a tourist attraction by offering such activities as archery, clay pigeon shooting, off road driving with Land Rover Defenders, zorbing and the chance to fish in a small, private lake.
Land Rover Defender jeeps are also used by the SAF, modified to house a Browning M2 machine gun and a Vektor SS-77 machine gun on the passenger seat for the former.
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These may be six-wheel drive (such as the 6x6 version of the Australian Army's Perentie Land Rover Defender and the 6x6 Australia company's "Landcruiser Sherman"), but are commonly 6x4 (with only front and rear or front and middle axles driven), a technically simpler construction with stock components.