Think outside the box

DON’T LOOK AT THE LAND ROVER Defender as a standalone vehicle. It is in addition an image builder for Land Rover and a much needed one as well. For a while Range Rover has snapped up all the attention from the fashionista media. Since the demise of the original Defender five years ago now, poor old Land Rover has had to subsist on the thin gruel provided by the unremarkable Discovery Sport and visually charmless Discovery. The Defender’s job is to sprinkle stardust on them, and sprinkler-in-chief is the new V8 version.

For this is a car nobody needs.