Apart from dalliances with V8s (and begging an exception for a currently owned Ford twin-turbo V6), I’ve always had a preference for small road cars with simple engines. So why I should be seized by a

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Land Rover’s beloved, rattly old workhorse has gained a chic cachet in recent years–particularly when modified to suit all sorts of purposes, even transporting our guest editor’s honey harvest, finds Charles Rangeley-Wilson

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