Fiat Campagnola: The Italian Jeep That Beat Alfa Romeo and Carried a Pope Classic & Sports Car counts 359,489 Willys MBs built between 1941 and 1945. Fiat built roughly 40,000 Campagnolas between 1951 and 1973. Same job description, about a ninth of the volume, and it still beat a more advanced Alfa Romeo in a … Read more
The Spanish 4×4 That Beat the Defender, Then Bankrupted Its Own Factory Top Gear built an entire personality around the idea that the Defender was unbeatable — slow, agricultural, and somehow untouchable, the automotive equivalent of a national monument nobody was allowed to criticise. In July 2005, a British magazine tested that assumption properly. “4×4 … Read more
The Spanish Factory That Started Fixing Solihull’s Homework Chris Harris once said the joy of an old Land Rover is that it forgives you for everything except neglect. Fair enough. But nobody in Britain ever built the version that admits the factory itself needed forgiving too. That version was built in Spain, by a company … Read more
Santana Motor: the Spanish 4×4 that humiliated the British, died with the country — and just came back with Chinese blood You’ve probably never heard of Linares. It’s a small city in the south of Spain, sitting in the middle of an olive-tree ocean in the province of Jaén — historically one of the poorest … Read more
