Critic
Land Rover’s New $83,000 Defender Is an Alpha Male Still in Beta
The luxury 4x4 remains king of off-roading, but questions about its electronics temper a full endorsement.
The Land Rover Defender 110.
Source: Land Rover
A few hours into driving through 117-degree heat in the California desert, I got the distinct impression I was in over my head.
I’d just floored the new Land Rover Defender 110 up the side of a five-story-high sand dune near the Salton Sea, giddily ignorant of any actual threat, when one of my fellow drivers got his Defender stuck so far into the sand he couldn’t open the door.