Kahn will soon proceed to modify the new Land Rover Defender, but in the meantime, they have tuned yet another previous-gen example and named it the End Edition.
A fine piece of automotive work, the pickup bears the British tuner’s signature design, with bolt-on fender extensions, new stainless steel front bumper with integrated lights, tweaked bonnet, tubular side steps for improved ingress and egress, side vents, roof lights, rear mud flaps and spare wheel cover in the open bed.
The Mondial Retro 20-inch wheels, shod in Cooper AT/3 tires, and twin crosshair exhausts with 100 mm (4 in) tailpipes round out the exterior changes. This six-year old Defender also features an upgraded interior. The front GTB bucket seats with heating, rear seats, parts of the dashboard and 3-spoke steering wheel, with billet brushed satin aluminum, are wrapped in brown quilted and perforated leather. It also features machined aluminum vented pedals, chunky rubber floor mats, rear boot mat, custom inte
Land Rover has been going back and forth about launching a pickup variant of the current Defender, and it seems that the project might actually be greenlit.
Don’t hold your breath for the utilitarian model just yet, because it is far from official, but a satisfactory comment came from JLR’s Executive Director of Vehicle Programs, Nick Collins.
The Jaguar Land Rover official explained, quoted by Autocar, that “we always said the Defender would be a family”, and while he will not speak about the brand’s future plans and possible new products, we should at least “watch this space” for any news on the possible pickup.
So far, we’ve only seen prototypes of the five-door Defender 110 testing with a V8 engine under the hood, but Land Rover will also launch an eight-cylinder variant of the shorter Defender 90.
Caught testing in Europe with British license plates, albeit in left-hand drive, the test car had most of its body wrapped in a thin layer of camo, but it should look identical to the longer model, save for the shorter distance between the front and rear axles, and the two doors.
One distinctive feature is the quad exhaust layout, with two squared tailpipes on each side, which we’ve also seen on the Defender 110 V8. However, since this is just a prototype, we’d expect the final production variant to do a better job at hiding the muffler, perhaps with a bigger rear bumper.