Land Rover Timeline
* 1948 Land Rover is designed by the Wilks Brothers and is manufactured by the Rover Company
* 1967 Rover becomes part of Leyland Motors Ltd, later British Leyland
* 1970 Introduction of the Range Rover
* 1975 BL collapses and is nationalised, publication of the Ryder Report recommends that Land Rover be split from Rover and be treated as a separate company within BL
* 1980 Rover car production ends at Solihull, which is now exclusively for Land Rover manufacture. 5-door Range Rover introduced.
* 1986 BL, now known as the Rover Group, is privatised and becomes part of British Aerospace
* 1987 Range Rover is introduced to the U.S market
* 1989 Introduction of the Discovery (Disco I to enthusiasts)
* 1994 Rover Group is taken over by BMW. Introduction of second-generation Range Rover.
* 1998 Introduction of the Freelander
* 1999 (Midyear) Introduction of the second generation of Discovery (Disco II)
* 2000 BMW breaks up the Rover Group and sells Land Rover to Ford.
* 2002 Introduction of third-generation Range Rover
* 2005 Introduction of the third-generation Discovery/LR3
* 2005 Introduction of Range Rover Sport
* 2005 Adoption of the Jaguar AJ-V8 engine to replace the BMW M62 V8 in the Range Rover
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