Gear Patrol | Spirit of Adventure, Passion for Gear

Back, to the Future

We don’t envy Land Rover. Upgrading, modifying, or simply touching their icon, the Defender is about as much of a Pandora’s Box as they come. But such is the way of progress, and in just a month, Land Rover will be unveiling their first concept, the DC100 at the Frankfurt Auto Show. Like any concept, [...]

The relentless pursuit. A painful obsession.

This story begins more than a decade ago. Two, really. All the way back to 1993. When you say it, 1993 doesn’t really seem like all that long ago. But it was a year full of memorable events. Lennox Lewis beat Tony Tucker for the heavyweight title, Intel announced the groundbreaking Pentium processor and NBC [...]

Less land barge, more land yacht

Danish tuning company Startech has leaked a custom variant for one of our most favorite vehicles, the Land Rover Defender. On display at this year’s Essen Motorshow, the Land Rover Defender 90 Yachting Edition is essentially a standard hardtop Defender SVX from the outside only distinguished by its custom bright white paint, running boards with [...]

Redefining Hot Ride

After Land Rover updated the Range Rover Sport , the car specialists at Project Kahn decided to follow suit with their lava-inspired Vesuvius edition. The new iteration features an orange and black aero package that’s matched by the SUV’s custom quilted and perforated leather interior, proving that Kahn Designs clearly had Gear Patrol in mind [...]

An SUV Worth Its Salt Lets turn back a little over one decade ago to 1997. A year when men were mired in news about Princess Diana’s passing, cloned sheep, and photos beamed from Mars. Oh, and Land Rover would be forced to stop selling the Land Rover Defender due to airbag regulations. Most of [...]

[click on image to enlarge] A vehicle I’ve always wanted for as long as I can remember is a red 1997 Land Rover Defender 90. It was the last year the Defender was available in the United States before airbag laws prevented Land Rover from selling it. Iconic, at the very least, the Land Rover [...]

[click on image to enlarge] There are few joys of receiving press releases. One of the benefits though are images. Sexy, flawless, professional shot images. We of course, like to pass that along to you. Recently, there have been writers abuzz with the new Land Rover LRX Concept. Autoblog, Jalopnik, and Inside Line as examples. [...]

The all new 2008 Land Rover LR2 is a 4-door, 5-passenger luxury sport-utility, available in one trim only, the i6. It’s a great one, even if pricey. 3.2-liter, inline 6 cylinder 230-horsepower engine 18-mpg and an oddly disproportionate 33-mpg on the highway 6-speed automatic transmission with overdrive Available in Tambora Flame (the color shown) What [...]