The 2-millionth Land Rover Defender offered for any record cost in a charitable organisation auction

The final Land Rover Defender will roll from the production line in The month of january 2016, with more than 2 million of these offered since 1947. The 2-millionth Defender continues to be offered for any record £400,000, which makes it probably the most valuable production Land Rover ever.

Built-in May 2015, the Land Rover Defender 2,000,000 was offered to some bidder from Qatar, using the arises from the purchase likely to two non profit organizations: the Worldwide Federation of Red-colored Mix and Red-colored Crescent Communities (IFRC) and also the Born Free Foundation.

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Jaguar Land Rover's Special Procedures department oversaw this car's production, striving to show it into something unique and valuable. It provides a number of one-off features, including logos with '2,000,000' around the back in addition to sewn in to the headrests, an aluminium plaque signed by individuals who built the vehicle along with a S90 HUE registration plate that echoes the famous HUE 166 plate located on the first pre-production Land Rover.

Additionally, there are an engraved map of Red-colored Wharf Bay, in which the the perception of the very first Land Rover was attracted within the sand at that time engineering director of Rover, Maurice Wilks. The car's according to an Autobiography model, the top-spec version with leather seats and interior trim.

John Edwards, boss of JLR's Special Procedures division, stated: "Tonight’s purchase goes lower included in our history. Obviously, Defender includes a future and can survive on its own. However the original Series Land Rovers and Defenders may also still thrive through our Jaguar Land Rover Heritage division.”