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Well worth the wait

be the most long-drawn-out car launch in history. We were slated to test Land Rover’s new Defender at the end of March, but you know what happened then. The launch was postponed for five months – so Land Rover had the brilliant idea of lending its ready-to-go press fleet to key workers delivering emergency supplies around the country. That meant those public-spirited heroes, possibly uniquely, got to drive the Defender before

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