Start with what the Land Rover Defender L663 is: a 3-door SUV (90) / 5-door SUV (110 & 130) with Petrol engine, built from 2019, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Gerry McGovern.
The story
The Land Rover Defender is a four-wheel-drive off-road luxury 4x4 from British automotive company Jaguar Land Rover. The vehicle was launched on 10 September 2019 at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
It is significant for being the first all-new version of the Defender, breaking the engineering lineage with its predecessor, a descendant of the original Series Land Rovers of 1948. The unibody-based Defender is aimed at a more upmarket segment than its predecessor. The L663 Defender is available in three body length options, marketed as the Defender 90 (3-door), Defender 110 (5-door) and Defender 130 (5-door with extended rear overhang for three-row seating).
What is underneath
The engine is Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 4912 -. Drive goes through a ZF Friedrichshafen / ZF 8-speed automatic / 2-speed transfer case. The layout matters: drive goes to all four wheels, which is what lets the power be used on a wet road. The wheelbase is 90: 2587 mm / 110 & 130: 3022 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
In the Land Rover line-up the Land Rover Defender L663 has a clear place: it replaced the Land Rover Defender (L316); the factory was Nitra (JLR Slovakia), Slovakia. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Model Y, the Tesla Model 3. Nearby in the Land Rover catalogue sit the Land Rover Discovery Sport and the Land Rover Discovery series.