Inside, there’s “luxurious” semi-aniline Bottle Green and Windsor Ebony leather on the seats, passenger grab handles and headliner. The dashboard doesn’t get the modern Defender’s infotainment display or digital dials, with tech highlights including a single DIN stereo head unit with navigation, DAB radio and Bluetooth, and a “unique” clock design inspired by Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill champagne.
The Soft Top (priced from £242,500 ex. VAT) features a made-to-measure canvas hood with rear and side sections that can be unzipped and rolled up for “open-air driving”. Land Rover Classic has apparently added extra tie-down points to keep the canvas in place at higher speeds.
Land Rover says the Defender Classic’s V8 is good for 0-62mph in as little as 5.9 seconds in the 90, or 6.1 seconds in the 110. Top speed stands at 106mph across all three models. Every car gets a two-speed transfer box, heavy-duty front and rear differentials and a torque-biasing centre differential. There’s Eibach coil springs and anti-roll bars, Bilstein telescopic dampers and Alcon brakes, too.
Land Rover Classic’s new Churchill Edition is available to order now alongside the firm’s 90 and 110 variants of the Classic Defender V8. We’re told that the cars are “all available for Works Bespoke clients to commission to their own specification”.
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