caption: Slide 3 of 17: If you count the Defender alongside its predecessors, the Series I, <PERSON>, it was in continuous production from 1948 until 2016. And there was a good reason for this -- arguably no car offers the rugged reliability of the <PERSON>. They go on forever, the body panels are easy to replace, the engines easy to service and replace if needed, and because they hold their value so well, relatively few are scrapped.