Land Rover Classic reveals the Defender Works V8 Islay Edition inspired by a Spencer Wilks Defender and costing from £230,000. Five years ago, to celebrate Land Rover’s 70th Birthday, Land Rover treated classic Defender enthusiasts – well, those with deep pockets – to the Land Rover Defender Works V8, a limited run of 150 suitably […]
Range Rover Classic by Inverted gets 450bhp electric Tesla power
The Range Rover Classic gets an electric makeover from Inverted with 450bhp Tesla power and prices starting at £270,000. Whatever your take is on the conversion of classic cars to electric cars, it seems the trend is here to stay as well-heeled motorists flock to make classics a daily driver with EV power and modern […]
Land Rover Defender 130 now with V8 option and a Defender Outlander model too
Land Rover adds a petrol V8 with 493bhp option to the Defender 130 offerings, and there’s a new Defender Outlander Edition too. It’s getting on for a year since Land Rover revealed the Defender 130 as the third variant of the new Defender with room to party for eight, but it didn’t come with PHEV […]
Range Rover Sport SVR successor will debut next month as the new Range Rover Sport SV
There’s a successor to the Range Rover Sport SVR debuting in May, dubbed the Range Rover Sport SV and promising much performance. It’s almost a year since the new Range Rover Sport went on sale in the UK but, at the time, the only V8 petrol model available – this time BMW’s 4.4-litre V8 – […]
Another ‘James Bond’ Land Rover Defender SVX up for grabs
One of the seven remaining Land Rover Defender SVX models built for the James Bond film Spectre is up for grabs on Collecting Cars. More than eight years ago, Jaguar Land Rover revealed that they would be present and correct in the then latest James Bond outing – Spectre – with a Range Rover Sport, […]
Jaguar Land Rover sales UP 30% in Q4 – Land Rover Defender top seller
Jaguar Land Rover’s fortunes seem to be on the up, with sales in Q4 up by 30 per cent on the previous year, and an order bank of 200k. We’ve reported umpteen times on the big order bank for Land Rovers which, thanks to supply chain issues, continued to grow as buyers had to wait […]
King Charles’ Land Rover Discovery 3 sells for just £12k
A 2007 Land Rover Discovery 3, first owned by the then Prince Charles, sells at auction for a very modest £12,050. We’re used to seeing cars with former ‘celebrity’ owners fetching a premium at auction as buyers seek the cachet of a bit of showbiz glitz attached to their buy and are prepared to pay […]
Bowler Defender 100th Edition is an almost £100k ‘Old’ Land Rover Defender
The Bowler Defender 100th Edition arrives to celebrate Bowler’s 100th Fast Road Conversion of the old Land Rover Defender. Costs £93,600. If you still hold a torch for the old Land Rover Defender and its earlier Series model siblings, there’s no shortage of options, if your pockets are deep enough, to get a tweaked and […]
2010 Land Rover Defender 110 built for Prince Philip sells for £123,750
A 2o10 Land Rover Defender 110 built for Prince Philip has been sold at Silverstone Auctions for a record-breaking £123,750. We all know the Royal Family – and in particular the late Queen and Prince Philip – has a distinct fondness for Land Rovers and Range Rovers, either rugged Defenders and Series models used at […]
Land Rover reveals the limited-run Range Rover SV Lansdowne Edition. It’s not cheap.
The Range Rover SV Lansdowne Edition is revealed by Land Rover in Mayfair as a limited-run of 16 Range Rover SVs at £250,000. It’s not exactly a secret that Land Rover is prioritising the build of its range-topping models – Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Defender – and that its prices are moving upwards […]