Bordeau is an unusual name for a Land Rover. Or for anything, really. At first glance, if you know anything at all about French geography (or wine), you might think it sounds like it’s missing the X-factor. Actually, it’s probably safe to say that noone’s missing the X Factor.
Anyway, as it turns out Bordeau is still a word, even when it doesn’t have an X on the end of it. It’s a type of leather, a species of sage that gardeners get excited about, the name of a company that makes rilettes and other healthy French delicacies and, on a slightly less exotic level, a surname. The 24,665th most common surname in America, in fact, which is something I already knew and in no way did I Google it.
First manufactured in 1988 and now manufactured again in 2025. That’s because Project Bordeau the latest piece of work to emerge from Legacy Overland, a company that doesn’t just tart up old 4x4s – it remakes them from scratch, bringing them up to today’s standards as it goes and adding whatever luxuries and amenities its customers want. These are, needless to say, vehicles that are built to order.
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