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" After 68 years of continuous production, the last original Land Rover Defender rolled off the line Friday. To celebrate what is arguably its greatest achievement, Land Rover threw a party\u00A0after the last Defender was finished. What eventually became the Defender, the Land Rover Series, entered production very shortly after World War II in 1948. Land Rover built three Series models until renaming its truck Defender in 1990. Over two million Land Rover Series and Defenders were built since production began. Thanks to a shortage of steel after the war, the Land Rover Series I was built with an aluminum body and designed mainly for agricultural use. Quickly, it became the UK equivalent of the American Jeep. It was adapted for all manner of purposes and became a cultural icon. Defender production was reportedly \u00A0supposed to end in 2015, but high demand for final edition Defenders\u00A0pushed production into 2016. Land Rover announced the eventual end of Defender production in 2013 due to increasingly stringent emissions and safety regulations. Land Rover has a herculean task ahead of itself in following up the original Defender. The original is one of the most beloved trucks of all time and while the new one will be objectively better\u00A0than its predecessor, it has a nearly impossible task in winning over the Defender&amp;#039;s many fans. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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