Camel Trophy Land Rover Discovery - a photo on Flickriver

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During the Land Rover Owner International Show at the East of England Arena, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Saturday 15th September 2018.
 
About the photograph.

This is a 5-door Land Rover Discovery Series I in the Camel Trophy colours and markings, along with an engine snorkel, and some of the equipment on the roof rack, plus extra lights.

This specific model was used during the 1997 Camel Trophy event in Mongolia. It is a 2.5 L diesel 300tdi model, produced between 1994-1998.
 
About the overall subject.
 
About the Land Rover Discovery.
 
The Discovery is a series of seven-seater family SUVs, manufactured by Land Rover (later renamed as Jaguar Land Rover).

The Range Rover was designed to be an everyday 4x4 that could work as either a utility vehicle or a family car, while the Series models (1948-1985) was often seen as a light agricultural and utility vehicle. However the Range Rover moved towards a more upmarket luxury vehicle, so the Discovery was intended to fill in the role the Range Rover was originally supposed to be for.

The Discovery Series I was presented during the 1989 Frankfurt Motor Show, it was based on the Range Rover, but designed to be more affordably, and as a fully off-roading everyday family car. It offered a more luggage space with the optional of adding two more seats making it a total of 7 seats.
 
About the Camel Trophy.

The Camel Trophy was an annual off-roading competition that ran between 1980 to 2000, and used mainly various Land Rover models. The vehicles were often modified by Land Rover Special Vehicles department, for heavy extreme off-roading challenge.

It was considered to be more like the Olympics of the 4x4s, and the event was sponsored mainly by the cigarette company that made the Camel cigarettes.

It was later replaced with the G4 Challenge between 2003 to 2009.
 
About the Land Rover Owner International Show.

Land Rover Owner, often abbreviated as LRO, is a British monthly magazine for Land Rover enthusiasts, published by a company based in Peterborough. The full title is often Land Rover Owner International.

It first started in July 1987 by a group of East Anglian businessmen, and was a mainly black and white 40 pages magazine. By the mid-1990s, it was bought by a publishing group, and became one of the popular Land Rover magazines.

The Land Rover Owner International Show is a yearly event ran by the magazine, and usually during the weekend in September. It features many various Land Rover vehicles on display, and includes an action arena for Land Rover drivers to display their driving skills.
 
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Taken in: UK / England / Huntingdonshire / Alwalton (show map)

Taken on: September 15, 2018

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