In April, the British company JLR stunned fans with the news that it would no longer directly use the Land Rover brand: instead, there will be three individual brands — Range Rover, Discovery and Defender. Therefore, one should not be surprised that even in connection with the next restomod based on the classic, frame Defender, the Land Rover brand is no longer mentioned — except in a historical context, without knowledge of which such projects would not make sense.
< p>The assembly line life of the classic, frame Land Rover Defender ended in 2016, but in manual production mode, it continues to live and bring profit to JLR, formerly known as Jaguar Land Rover (now the abbreviation is used without decoding). In 2018, a hand-assembled batch of 150 Works V8 SUVs saw the light, in 2019 a set of parts was presented to upgrade old versions of Defender to the Works V8 level (though without the V8 engine itself), in 2021 25 SUVs were produced in the performance of Works V8 Trophy, another 25 Works V8 Trophy II in 2022, and another 30 retrospective called the Works V8 Islay Edition announced this week.
1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 5/5From a technical point of view, the Islay Edition version does not fundamentally differ from its predecessors: it is a factory restomod, for the manufacture of which a donor car is needed — a well-preserved assembly line Defender, released between 2012 and 2016. The stock turbodiesel is replaced by a 5.0-liter naturally aspirated V8 (405 hp, 515 Nm), the manual gearbox is replaced by an 8-speed ZF hydromechanical automatic transmission paired with a 2-speed transfer case, and instead of a simple all-wheel drive system the part-time restomod type receives a center differential and reinforced center differentials.Suspension and steering have been upgraded to improve ride and handling, powerful disc brakes with 4-piston calipers are installed on all wheels, and stock headlights have been replaced with modern LED ones. To 60 mph (96.56 km/h) the Classic Defender Works V8 Islay Edition accelerates in 5.6 seconds and has a top speed of 170 km/h.
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The main feature of the Islay Edition is a special trim dedicated to the Scottish island of Islay (the southernmost in the Inner Hebrides archipelago) and Spencer Wilks, former managing director of the Rover Car Company and one of the founders of Land Rover. Tradition has it that the Land Rover name was born in 1947, the year Wilkes was testing one of the early SUV prototypes at his Islay estate. The caretaker of the estate, Ian Duncan, saw the owner in a new car and said that it must be a Land Rover — in the sense of an off-road Rover, a new brand was born.
The restomod's gray color scheme and 16-inch beige steel wheels refer to Spencer Wilks's 1965 Land Rover Series IIa, and the oldtimer's serial number GXC 639C is reproduced as a plaque on the left front fender of the restomod.
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The interior of the restomoda is upholstered in black Land Rover Windsor Ebony leather with tweed checkered inserts in Islay landscape, swampy colors, carpets are laid on the floor, and a unique removable tray with cup holders is installed between the front seats, for making which uses oak whiskey barrels from a distillery owned by the family of Spencer Wilks' granddaughter. Oak veneer is also used to trim the trunk and dial of the branded watch on the front.
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Land Rover Classic will split the Classic Defender Works V8 Islay Edition into two groups: 17 cars will get a short wheelbase 3-door body (factory version 90), as in the photos, 13 cars will receive a long wheelbase 5-door body (factory version 110), the price is 230,000 and 245,000 pounds sterling respectively.
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