Land Rover's most powerful straight-six diesel comes to its biggest Defender - and just in time
Land Rover's most powerful straight-six diesel comes to its biggest Defender - and just in timeNews this week that Defender is poised to become the partner car of the Dakar Rally is yet another milestone in the successful resurrection of Land Rover’s long-running model. In previous years, the idea that the brand would align itself with the toughest rally-raid competition in the world might have been met with wry amusement, given its less-than-stellar reliability record over the years.
An opinion on the chairs, sadly, will have to wait for another day. Land Rover offered PH the Outbound version of the very latest 130 to test, and naturally its boarded-up rear end means entirely doing away with the third row of seats in favour of a conveniently large, rubber-lined boot. This obviously negates the value of the Captain Chairs, which is at least partly based on the much easier access to the pop-up pews at the back.
Though admittedly a niche prospect, it seemed a bit mean at the time that the chunkiest, pluckiest Defender could not be bought with the life-affirming 5.0-litre V8 - yet it was hardly like the model suffered for the presence of the 300hp 3.0-litre straight-six.
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