Landrover Parade: Guinness World Records finally receives new application from Tanzania But …
The office of the Guinness World Records in the United Kingdom has finally made a statement regarding the recently held Landrover Vehicles Parade and assembly in Tanzania.
“This is not currently a confirmed Guinness World Records title,” reveals Alina Polianskaya the Public Relations (PR) Executive of the Guinness World Records Limited in London.
However, Ms Polianskaya admits that Guinness World Records in the UK has finally received an application from Tanzania, for the country to be considered in the new Landrover longest Convoy in the world record, but …
“We did receive contact from the applicant, but we can’t discuss any details due to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations),” the Guinness World Records’ PR Executive explained in an exclusive email correspondence to The Tanzania Times.
Apparently, Tanzania was attempting to break the Guinness World Record of lining up the largest number of Landrovers at the special vehicles’ brand parade held in the Northern City of Arusha.
Event organizers reported to have achieved the feat with more than 1000 such vehicles registered for the Landrover convoy which drove across the city for three days on the 12th, 13th and 14th of October 2024.
The Arusha Regional Commissioner’s office which organized the event in association with local tourism stakeholders claimed to have lined up 1035 Landrovers in the vehicles’ parade.
The current Guinness World Record for the longest snake of Landrovers is the one recorded in 2018 and which lined up a total of 632 trucks that wound their way around the Spa Town of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Germany,
The German parade stretched over 7.4 kilometers. Tanzania, on the other hand, was gunning for a string of 12 kilometers, of Landrovers lined from bumper to bumper.
But until Guinness acknowledges the Arusha claims the record is still held by the Bavarian Town of Germany for staging the longest Landrover trucks’ procession on single file.
The Landrover event of Germany was held during the annual Abenteuer Allrad exhibition, the largest in the world for cross-country and off-road vehicles.
The German parade stretched over 7.4 kilometers. It was organized by Land Rover corporate in Germany, under the supervision of officials from Guinness World Records.
The prior record was set in Portugal in 2014, with 516 Landrovers. Every type of Land Rover participated, from 1940s Series I 80” to Range Rover Evoque convertibles.
Tanzania, on the other hand, is reporting to have recorded 1035 entries.
The Landrover string stretched on a single file of 12 kilometers long, bumper to bumper, according to the Regional Commissioner Paul Makonda.
Makonda believes the Arusha Landrover Festival beat both the Portugal and Germany parades in numbers; “We are waiting for the Guinness endorsement,” he added.