Although the second generation of the Land Rover had been commercially successful, it had suffered from unsatisfactory reliability. For the third generation (L322) the British brand, controlled by BMW, decided to start from the blank sheet. The third series debuted in 2002, with BMW engines that were renewed year after year offering refined technical solutions, including a V8 Diesel developed with Ford and the PSA group. The L322 series went out of production in 2012, replaced by the L405.