Classic Land Rover Defender still a theft risk due to lack of modern security features
The most-stolen modern cars are targeted electronically; the popular but old-fashioned 4x4 is easily succumbs to less sophisticated attack
4 May 2021 • 3:29pm
The Defender, produced from 1990 to 2016, bore an obvious lineage to the original Land Rover of 1948. This is a 1995 model
There’s one car that the UK’s most wanted professional car thieves covet, the classic Land Rover Defender. The renowned 4x4 has been a fixture of their “shopping list” of cars to steal for many years. While the increase in sophisticated electronic tools to bypass vehicle security systems is used to steal modern cars, many models of the old-fashioned Defender can be entered and started with “any old key”.