Twisted Land Rover preview: ‘The much-loved classic gets a major twist’ | Martin Love

Just when you thought the classic Defender was no more, along comes a firm determined to keep the 4x4 as relevant and desirable as ever

Twisted Land Rovers
Price from 60,000, twistedautomotive.com

When Land Rover took the momentous decision to discontinue the Defender in 2016 after almost 70 glorious years in production, fans of the historic 4x4 held their heads in their hands and wiped tears from their weather-beaten faces. But all was not lost. Life-long enthusiast Charles Fawcett saw a niche in the market and set up Twisted Automotive. He bought the final late-build cars from Land Rover and gave them a highly individual 'twist'. Adapting the British icon to be faster and more luxurious than the boulder-hopping, mud-wrestling, river-wading, heath-beating off-roader had a right to be.