Car Auto Design

The 62-year old strike-anywhere-carry-anything 4X4 all-terrain sub-urban-but-city-driving vehicle might by now be undergoing all the engineering tweaks in time for its 2014 unveiling under the code-name Project Icon. What a fitting name.

While an average driver keeps the same set of tires for less than 30,000 miles, a British chap named Tim Townsend has managed to complete a whopping 117,000 miles or the equivalent of five trips around the globe, with the same set of rubber on his Land Rover Defender 90!