What do you get if you combine a classic British off-road vehicle with a German performance engine, and introduce it to the South African market? The answer is the Land Rover Defender 2.8i, a unique vehicle that was really a high-speed off-roader and certainly an unusual Land Rover for its time. After all, the 2.8i was on the market long before Land Rover started to drop supercharged V8s into its Defenders. So, what was special about the Defender 2.8i, which Land Rover built exclusively for this market between 1997 and 2001?
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