Jaguar Land Rover German firm to design successor to Land Rover Defender Ineos chairman hands contract to MBtech to create and produce prototypes of ‘world-class 4x4’ Jaguar Land Rover stopped making the Defender in 2016. The successor vehicle could be built in the UK. Photograph: Toby Melville/ReutersJim Ratcliffe, the multibillionaire chemicals tycoon and Brexit supporter, has handed a contract to create a “British” successor to the Land Rover Defender to a company in Germany. Ineos said Stuttgart-based engineering firm MBtech will “take the initial design concepts through to a fully engineered vehicle … followed by prototypes” produced in 2018 in Germany. “When I’m on safari in Africa I always prefer to be in a Land Rover,” he said.

Source: The Guardian February 14, 2018 19:34 UTC