LAND ROVER Australia has consolidated its Defender 90 line-up for MY23 with just six variants available, and only one of them is diesel-fuelled. That is the D250 in S specification, and we’re driving it here to reacquaint ourselves with the stubby Defender.
The D250 S starts at $95,590, but this test car is fitted with a few extras that take the price as tested up to $106,263 plus on-road costs. The extras include the Off Road Pack at $1021, the Air Suspension Pack at $1309, the Cold Climate Pack at $1481, a tow bar for $1342, and a few smaller comfort and convenience features.
From those extras, we’d say the air-suspension and the off-road packs are the only essentials for bush touring in Australia; although, you could forego the Off Road Pack and simply option in the torque-vectoring, auto-locking rear differential for just
