<P> The Land Rover Defender ( initially called the Land Rover Ninety and Land Rover One Ten ) is a British four - wheel drive off - road vehicle developed in the 1980s from the original Land Rover Series which was launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show in April 1948 . After a continuous run of 67 years production finally ended on 29 January 2016 when the last Land Rover Defender , H166 HUE , rolled off the production line at 09 : 22hrs GMT . A special edition Defender Works V8 , with 400bhp , was announced in January 2018 . Jaguar Land Rover announced their intention to launch a completely new Defender . </P>
when was the land rover defender first built
in the 1980s