Tatiana Reed (born 2002),[1] commonly known as Tati Reed,[2] is an English automotive-based social media influencer, whose content documents her 1985 Land Rover Defender 90, nicknamed "Blue Tit".[2][3]
Social media
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Reed bought her Land Rover in 2023,[2] quickly gaining social media attention following a single post that accumulated around 23 million views, gaining her over 50,000 followers.[4] Reed uploads her videos (which feature her maintaining her ever-problematic Land Rover, as well as driving it across Britain and Europe)[1] to YouTube and Instagram where she is commonly known by her username, "Over in the Rover".[1][3] As of June 2026[update], Reed has over 487,000 followers on Instagram and was listed fifteenth in the "Top 100 UK auto-influencers".[5][6]
During her childhood, Reed was not interested in cars, nor were her parents,[2] and states that her interest in cars, especially Land Rovers, only began to develop after she drove a Land Rover, aged 18.[1]
In September 2024, Reed gave a talk to The Motorsport Society at Eton College about her travels and acquisition of mechanical knowledge through fixing her Land Rover.[7] Reed has appeared with Izzy Hammond on DriveTribe, documenting and supporting Hammond renovating her own Land Rover "Wallycar".[8][9]
Reed has a regular column on The Intercooler and Land Rover Life.[10][11]
Personal life
editReed's parents separated when she and her elder sister were young, which "became a catalyst to growing up quite quickly".[1] Her father, Andrew, previously served in the military, and her mother, Sarah, is an interior designer.[2][12] Reed's sister, Araminta,[13] is a fashion model, and also an automotive-based social media influencer.[14][12] Through her father's great-grandfather's maternal ancestry, Reed descends from the Viscounts Combermere and therefore the Salusburys of Llewni. Through that same ancestor's paternal ancestry, Reed descends from the marriage of the 4th Duke of Richmond and Lady Charlotte Gordon, therefore meaning she descends from the Dukes of Richmond, Marquesses of Lothian, and illegitimately from Charles II through the 4th Duke, and the Dukes of Gordon, Norfolk, and Earls of Aberdeen through Lady Charlotte. Reed is also a relative of the Victorian prime minister Sir Robert Peel, descending from his younger brother, Laurence Peel.[15]
Reed studied photography A-level at Seaford College[5] saying "she can make things look nice", and that her early videos looked at least "semi-professional", before realising that people "did not want things to look nice".[2] She later studied International Relations at the University of Exeter.[5]
As of May 2025[update], Reed resides in West Sussex.[16]
References
edit- 1 2 3 4 5 Newton, Elliot (12 April 2024). "Meet the 21-year-old Landy lover who's carving her own mud-filled path to success". Classic Driver. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fisher, James (7 February 2025). "'The original plan was just to buy a Land Rover and go on a trip': Why Tati Reed and a battered Land Rover might be the only honest thing on the internet". Country Life. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
- 1 2 Bryne, Arabella (7 April 2025). "Why ladies love the Land Rover". The Spectator. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
- ↑ Emslie, Rob (13 November 2024). "At $13,500, Would You Rove The Land In This 1981 Land Rover 109?". Jalopnik. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
- 1 2 3 "Congratulations to all of our students on another year of strongest ever A Level results!". Seaford College. 10 August 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
- ↑ "Top 100 UK Auto Influencers in 2025". FeedSpot. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
- ↑ "The Motorsports Society presents Tati Reed aka @overintherover". Ticket Source. 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
- ↑ Hammond, Izzy (19 December 2024). "Wallycar Vs Blue tit". More DriveTribe. Retrieved 11 June 2026.
- ↑ Hammond, Izzy (8 December 2024). "The Abandoned Hammond Family Car That Nobody Knows About". DriveTribe. Retrieved 11 June 2026.
- ↑ "Tati Reed". The Intercooler. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ↑ "Regulars". Land Rover Monthly. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- 1 2 Goodsell, Mary (2 December 2022). "A cosy country home at Christmas you need to see inside". Sussex Living. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
- ↑ McMeekin, Janet (31 December 2022). "A Georgian home in West Sussex". Homes and Antiques. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
- ↑ "Araminta Reed | METRO Models". www.metromodels.com. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
- ↑ Mosley, Charles, ed. (19 December 2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons. Burke's Peerage. Vol. 2 (107th ed.). USA: Burke's Peerage. p. 2841. ISBN 978-0971196629.
- ↑ Thornhill, Ted (9 May 2025). "Brit drives in US for first time - here's what shocked her the most". The Independent. Retrieved 16 May 2025.