- The heritage Land Rover carrying Idris Elba during the Invictus Games opening ceremony previously carried Her Majesty the Queen and the late Queen Mother during the 1970s/80s.
- It is a Land Rover Series IIa, a British icon that has been evolving for 65 years.
- The Land Rover in the opening ceremony was built in June 1968 and issued to the British Army on The Rhine.
- It was based in Germany until de-mob in 1993, having covered around 4000Km, then donated to the national Army Museum.
- Over two million Land Rovers, now known as the Defender, have been bought since the car first appeared in April 1948.