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Santana Cazorla 6

The Santana Cazorla is the top-of-the-range 109-inch station wagon that Santana Motor of Linares built from 1982 as an evolution of its Series III 109 Especial, and the 'Cazorla 6' is the version fitted with Santana's own 3,429 cc six-cylinder diesel — an engine Land Rover never offered in Britain. Square headlamps, a one-piece glassfibre roof, four alpine lights and twin fuel tanks set it apart from any Solihull-built Land Rover.

Santana Cazorla 6 — front three-quarter render

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History

Santana Motor grew out of Metalúrgica de Santa Ana, an agricultural machinery works founded at Linares in the province of Jaén in 1956. From 1958 it assembled Land Rovers under licence for the protected Spanish market, beginning with CKD Series II 88s and reaching near-total local content within a couple of years. Spanish homologation rules, local supply and local demand steadily pushed the Linares cars away from their British siblings, so that by the 1970s Santana models carried their own bodywork details, their own gearboxes and, eventually, their own engines.

The most significant of those was a six-cylinder diesel. Rover's Buick-derived V8 was considered for the Series III in Spain and rejected as too thirsty, so Santana's engineers instead added two cylinders to the existing 2.25-litre four, keeping the same bore and stroke to arrive at a 3,429 cc naturally aspirated direct-injection straight six of about 94-96 CV (a 107 CV petrol six was also built). Because it kept the four-cylinder starter motor the engine was notoriously reluctant to fire from cold, but it gave the long-wheelbase Santana far more pulling power than any 2.25 could manage. The six-cylinder cars were the first Santanas to get a one-piece windscreen, larger door glass, a moulded glassfibre roof with ventilation hatches, glassfibre bumpers, wider seats and a much larger fuel capacity.

Production of the Cazorla began in 1982, named after the Sierra de Cazorla in the same province as the Linares factory, and succeeding the Land Rover Santana Serie III 109 Especial. It was conceived as a nine-seat working station wagon rather than a luxury car: sparse inside, but with two fuel tanks giving 92 litres and, with the LT85 five-speed gearbox and overdrive, a genuine 120 km/h cruise at the cost of fuel consumption approaching 20 L/100 km. Leaf springs, selectable four-wheel drive and drum brakes were retained. Visually its signature is the pair of square headlamps taken from the SEAT 127, mounted in the wings, plus four fixed alpine windows and the Santana badge on the grille panel. The Cazorla was succeeded in the range by the Santana Super, and the whole Series-derived line eventually gave way to the Santana 2.5/2500 after Land Rover withdrew from the company in the mid-1980s.

Imagery

Santana Cazorla five-door station wagon in cream, on Jaén plates — square SEAT 127 headlamps, glassfibre roof with vent hatches and four alpine windows
Santana Cazorla five-door station wagon in cream, on Jaén plates — square SEAT 127 headlamps, glassfibre roof with vent hatches and four alpine windows Schumi4ever · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
The same Cazorla from the rear, showing the long-wheelbase station wagon body
The same Cazorla from the rear, showing the long-wheelbase station wagon body Schumi4ever · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗

Registry record

Manufacturer
Santana Motor S.A., Linares (Jaén), Spain
Manufactured
from 1982 (Series III-derived range ran to 1984-85)
Engine type
3,429 cc naturally aspirated direct-injection inline-six diesel, ~94-96 CV (a 107 CV petrol six was also built)
Country of origin
Spain
Status
out of production; survivors in private ownership in Spain

Catalogue data

Record kind
Named model
Model line
Santana
Wheels
4
Nominal wheelbase
109″

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Registry record updated 2026-09-10T02:08:51.820Z · status: researched