The Land Rover Defender 130 is arguably the best 4x4 that money can buy.
The very first lesson you very quickly learn when dune bashing is that there is absolutely no room for hesitance. You’ve just got to slam down on the accelerator full throttle and hold on for dear life on the incline because you need all the momentum you can muster to conquer an almost vertical sand dune. Even when you have no clue what may lie on the other side of the steep drop that awaits.
Once you’ve found your footing, though, it’s pure exhilaration demolishing the sand dunes in the Defender 130. The vehicle is, after all, arguably the best 4x4 that money can buy, built specifically for an occasion such as this. The Defender 130 is the biggest badass to join the Defender family. It’s massive – standing just under 2m tall, over 5m long and 2.1m wide; lording 340mm in length over the seven-seater Defender 110, and much mightier than the comparably diminutive two-door Defender 90. Its
But if jungle-rugged is what you’re truly after, you’d best get after one of those vintage Defenders originally produced since the 1940s with that iconic boxy profile and bare-bones interior without all the bells and whistles – if you can find one in these parts. The sense of spaciousness is further amplified by the sliding panoramic roof that bathes the first two rows of seats in natural light while an additional glass roof, unique to the Defender 130, ensures passengers in the third row have the same authentic Defender experience as anywhere else in the vehicle.Not carrying such a heavy human load? Fold the third row and you get 1.232 litres of loadspace for your equipment and cargo.
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