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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

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That’s three times the output of the Buick-based Rover V-8 that first powered these trucks in 1979, and nine times that of the anemic 50-hp gasoline engine the Rover boasted at its birth, in 1948. We said, ‘Let’s take a British farm vehicle and turn it into a luxury SUV for the American market,’ ” Wallace recounts during my tour of E.C.D.’s