The Daily Telegraph team reporting on the Dakar used an Argentinian spec vehicle as a media base.

Report is linked below, it's on the Telegraph so behind paywalls, but you get a reasonable number of free articles a month, 20 I think.

It concentrates mostly on their kit, and little on the Freelander. That might be because it was such an uneventful trip with nothing going wrong apart from a puncture.

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