Land Rover of Hoffman Estates

The Lander Rover Defender saw the final days of its U.S. production back in 1997, when safety regulations forced it off the market, but the vehicle lives on in Europe to this very day. Unfortunately, however, increasingly strict emissions requirements are phasing the off-road SUV out of the European production cycle too.

Originally, the Land Rover was expected to be retired from production in 2015, with a more efficient replacement model being introduced in…