The 110 Hard Top has a load bay big enough – and a huge side-hinged, spare-wheel-carrying tailgate door that opens wide enough – to load a standard Euro Pallet (the sort you see around the back of shops, or in pieces when building a bonfire) via a forklift truck. There is a robust bulkhead behind the front seats, to protect occupants from flying tool boxes or cans of paint, and the tough rubber floor has integrated lashing points and a secret underfloor stowage area. The square-shaped bay in the back is a commodious 1,355 litres in the 90, and a huge 2,059 litres in the 110 (which has the added convenience of access via two rear doors).
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Pleasingly, though, you can have a third middle-seat option (for £815), should you want the full three-up-builder effect (the apprentice naturally sits in the middle). Inside, it’s a two-seater: those in the back make way for the extended load bay. It’s no less of a head-turner, and the rear side panels – optionally sign-writable and a creative’s blank-canvas dream – look even more purist than the car version’s odd windows.
What’s the difference to a normal Defender? At first glance, very little.
With prices starting from around £36,500 excluding VAT for the 90 (the longer 110 is from £43,000), it’s also the closest thing to a bargain new Defender you’ll get. © Provided by Motoring ResearchĪ Defender Hard Top commercial version broadens the range, and arguably sticks even more faithfully to its post-war roots as a working hack to, literally, rebuild Britain. How could it go to anything else? Only the semiconductor shortage is restricting the number of cars leaving retailers Land Rover can instantly sell every one it builds.
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A brilliant reinvention of the 1948 original Series Land Rover, it has cleaned up on the motoring awards circuit, including being named World Car Design of the Year 2021. The new Defender SUV is already going down a storm. ‘Building back better’ clearly means a focus on vehicles driven by people who build or make stuff – and now Land Rover is getting in on the act with a load-lugging new model of its own: the Defender Hard Top. The Ford Transit Custom is currently beating the Vauxhall Corsa in the SMMT sales rankings – and by a clear margin of several thousand, too. The best selling car so far in 2021 is… a van.