Reinventing a brand icon can be a monumental task and Land Rover has mustered all they have for the all-new 2020 Defender. In fact, so confident are they that the British luxury carmaker supplied 10 units of its four-door 2020 Land Rover Defender 110 models, unmodified no less, to be used as stunt vehicles in the upcoming James Bond: No Time to Die adventure.
The new Defender 4×4 features an all-new platform, with new increased dimensions (the 90 and 110 models is up 722mm and 440mm on the previous models, measuring 4583mm and 5018mm long respectively(including the spare wheel on the rear door). Eschewing body-on-frame construction of its predecessor model, the new 2020 Land Rover Defender is built like a modern Macbook, showcasing an aluminium unibody derived from the D7 platform of its brethren: the current Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Land Rover Discovery.
New 2020 Land Rover Defender proves it has No Time to Die during serious stunt work
In case you haven’t seen the outrageous Defender adverts yet, these things are built ridiculously tough (very much like Craig’s Bond) and its D7x platform (with “X’ denoting extreme) is the British marque’s strongest structure yet – boasting torsional rigidity of 30kNm/Degree. It’s no wonder the new four-door Defender 110s were used in the filming of No Time to Die. In fact, one among the James Bond fleet includes a specially selected 2020 Defender 110 with the VIN number ?007?.
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