Fear not, die-hard Defender fans, you may well get a second bite at the cherry! The folks over at Ares Design have just come up with a V8 Land Rover Defender to help revive the off-road icon.
Ares Design, based in Italy and headed by former Lotus Boss Dany Bahar, has taken all the awesome stuff about the Defender (and some not so awesome stuff), and gone a little bit silly. For example, the old donk has been thrown in the bin, with the Ares team shoehorning a bored out 4.5L Rover V8 (now at 4.7L), that puts down a rather impressive 210kW of power, and 440Nm of torque. That not enough? They’ll bolt a blower on the top to bring that up to 350kW and 650Nm. We’re actually unsure if the doors will stay on with that much punch out of the old girl.
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A factory built Defender Half-Track was spotted at a Kuwait salvage yard a while ago (2012) Has anyone seen it since ?
Yep
A defender…..like driving down the road sitting on a shovel