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(corrections added 12/19/2012 6:00pm – noted by strikethroughs)

Greetings fellow AZLRO members. It is once again time to start the voting process for the new council. Voting begins Tuesday, Jan 3rd, 2012. We will start the procedure Monday, January 8th 2010.

Council Voting Instructions

More than 1,000 new jobs are to be created by Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) in the West Midlands. From BBC.co.uk The new posts are being created at the company’s Land Rover plant in Solihull, where nearly 5,000 people currently work, the firm said. They are in support of the company’s ambition to deliver “40 significant product actions over the next five years”. It said these could include new models or derivatives of existing cars. Des Thurlby, human resources director at […]

Land Rover Mission Viejo Wheels Events is organizing a memorial run for one of Land Rover’s Best Friends, Dave Caouette, who was murdered in a parking lot on Wed. Oct. 12th 2011.

A cold, rainy morning found a contingent of AZLRO members out on the trail. This time, it wasn’t for a trail run, but a trail cleanup.

In a world that appears increasingly hostile to an all-SUV brand like Land Rover, adaptation is the only option.

Curious about the tale Val, Mateo and our guide told us about the flying stratofortress, the B-52, that crashed on Hunt’s Mesa, I tried to get a little more information.

About a year and a half ago James and I decided we wanted another Range Rover Classic. I was the main force behind this decision. When I first met James in 1995, he had a Series III, 88 inch wheel base Land Rover.

During World War II the United States exported more tons of petroleum products than of all other war matériel combined. The mainstay of the enormous oil-andgasoline transportation network that fed the war was the oceangoing tanker, supplemented on land by pipelines, railroad tank cars, and trucks. But for combat vehicles on the move, another link was crucial—smaller containers that could be carried and poured by hand and moved around a battle zone by trucks.

Continuing their journey to take over all off-road media, the Rover Divas have two new feathers in their collective cap: They’ve now launched their own web site, http://roverdivas.com/ – a step up from their old blogger site, and they are appearing yet again in another off-highway / overlanding staple, The Overland Journal‘s summer edition. {rokbox album=|album| title=|Rover Divas :: Overland Journal Summer Edition|}images/stories/2011/divasOverlandthumb.jpg{/rokbox} You can follow the Divas’ exploits on their web site, www.roverdivas.com and azlro also provides their rss […]