"By the time production of the long-running Land Rover Defender ended in 2016, there was no shortage of people mourning the loss of the company's seminal rugged off-roader," says Paul Hudson in The Daily Telegraph. Stricter emissions and safety standards had consigned "the go-anywhere original to the history books", says Siddharth Vikram Philip on Bloomberg. It was a sad end for a car that began production in 1948. Now, it is back. One of the hottest launches at last month's Frankfurt Motor Show was not a million-dollar supercar, but the new Defender, an updated version of the "no-frills favourite of farmers, explorers and the military".
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