The world's longest-serving vehicle is to roll off the production line for the last time after a continuous run of 67 years.

The Daily Telegraph reports that production of the Land Rover - currently known as the Defender - is to cease in December 2015. 

The Land Rover was created in the shadow of World War II. Inspired by the American Jeeps that had flooded Europe during the war, it was made from aluminium. Since then it became synonymous with the military,  farming, adventure, life-guarding, life-saving, rescuing, exploring and endeavour.

No vehicle has enjoyed a life as long or as full as the Land Rover. The Citroën 2CV, born out of a similar imperative in the same year, ceased production in 1990. The Volkswagen Beetle predated them both, but didn’t really hit its stride until 1945 and ended its production – on an entirely different continent from where it started – in 2003. Land Rovers have always been built in the same Solihull factory. 

It’s said that 75 per cent of the two million built so far are still on the road.