Land Rover has given Bowler, which it now owns, permission to use the iconic original Defender shape for its new performance model costing £200k. Bowler has been doing outrageous things to Land Rovers for quite some time, and doing it so well that last year Land Rover jumped in and gobbled up Bowler for its […]
Land Rover Defender range ALREADY getting an update, including a Defender P400e plug-in Hybrid
The new Land Rover Defender range is updated with the arrival of the plug-in hybrid Defender, new six-cylinder diesel engines and more. It’s almost exactly a year to the day since the new Land Rover Defender arrived to lay claim to the crown passed on by the iconic original. And a lot’s happened since. Covid […]
Ineos Grenadier on SHOW with Land Rover Defender at Concours of Elegance
The Ineos Grenadier will be on show at the Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court this weekend alongside the first Land Rover Defender. You’ll have seen the Ineos Grenadier – the 21st century Ineos take on the Land Rover Defender – umpteen times on these pages over recent months, but now you’ll have the chance […]
Goodbye Wales – Ineos ‘Land Rover Defender’ Grenadier now almost certain to be built in FRANCE
The Ineos Grenadier looks set to be built in France as Ineos submit a binding offer to purchase Daimler’s Smart Plant in France. The Ineos Grenadier, Jim Radliffe’s vision of what the Land Rover Defender should be in the 21st century, was finally revealed in July, looking exactly as we all thought it would. But […]
Ineos Grenadier – which CAN look like a Land Rover Defender – engine and gearbox highlighted
The Ineos Grenadier – a Land Rover Defender for the 2020s – is heading on long term testing of its engines and gearbox before arrival. Last month we finally got to see just how the new Ineos Grenadier looks and, not surprisingly, it looks very much like the original Land Rover Defender with a few […]
Jaguar Land Rover LOSES Land Rover Defender Trademark battle with Ineos – UPDATED
Jaguar Land Rover has had attempts to trademark the shape of the original Land Rover Defender rejected in the battle with Ineos and the Grenadier. Update 4/8/20: As this story from last November states, Jaguar Land Rover appealed the decision to reject their trademark application for the Land Rover Defender. That appeal has now been […]
Hankering after a NEW Land Rover Defender 90? You may have a bit of a wait.
The new Land Rover Defender 90 went on sale in the UK in February, but it looks like Land Rover are struggling to build the 90 for customers. With all Jaguar Land Rover’s financial woes, bits of Land Rover are the glue that’s holding things together, and one of those bits is the new Land […]
ELECTRIC Land Rover Defender conversion by Twisted makes your old Defender an EV 4×4
Yorkshire Land Rover Defender specialists Twisted has developed an electric conversion for the Defender, and a US special, with prices from £70,000. There may now be an all-new Land Rover Defender trying its best to be fit for the 21st century but still appealing to die-hard Defender lovers, but there’s still a big appetite for […]
Land Rover Defender ‘replacement’ Ineos Grenadier – too complicated, too expensive and NOT made in Britain?
The Ineos Grenadier, intended to replace the old Land Rover Defender, looks too complicated, too expensive and now likely not to be made in Britain. The plan by Jim Radcliff to deliver a proper ‘workhorse’ replacement for the old Land Rover Defender has been coming together for a few years, from a bright idea during […]
Land Rover Defender Hard Top REVEALED as the new Defender goes ‘Commercial’
The Land Rover Defender Hard Top arrives as a commercial Defender, and with the resurrected ‘Hard Top’ moniker, in 90 and 110 guises. Is the new Land Rover Defender a worthy successor to the original iconic model? Well, that depends on who you ask, but there’s little doubt the new Defender is as capable as […]