They spent nearly $400,000 on a classic Defender, and didn’t even swap the engine

Helderburg’s Defender restomod keeps its diesel heart, but adds wild upgrades inside and out, including CarPlay and custom ...
The Drive

Vintage Land Rover Defender Gets Turbodiesel Backhoe Engine Swap

Leave the LS swaps to the Americans because the British would rather do engine swaps using heavy-duty construction vehicles. Too prim and classy to fuss with horsepower, they just want something ...
autoweek

Finally, an Affordable Defender EV Conversion Kit?

Electrogenic announces an electric conversion kit for classic Land Rover Defender vehicles for £24,000, or about $29,500. The kit is designed to bolt in easily, along with a 52-kWh battery, which will ...
Motor Authority

Land Rover Defender V-8 conversion marks 70th anniversary

It was 70 years ago that the Rover company introduced the first Land Rover. The vehicle stayed in production right through to the 1980s when it was replaced by the Defender, which itself finally ...