THE Land Rover Defender line-up is now complete. Continuing the tradition of naming the variants according to the chassis length, the new Defender 130 closes the circle.
Not that the new Defender 90, 110 or 130 have a chassis mind you, because they’re now built around a very strong monocoque structure, but they have stuck with the iconic predecessors’ heritage and history.
The Defender is also the only vehicle in its segment that’s not built on a ladder frame chassis which is part of the reason why it’s so comfortable on and off-road. Land Rover claims it’s three times stiffer in terms of structural rigidity than its rivals, and that’s saying something.
That’s by the by, but it does show what’s possible when the engineers were tasked with a foreign concept when Jaguar Land Rover started redesigning the
