See this Land Rover? It looks like the one from
Spectre, right? That's because it is. Or one of them, anyway. When shooting the
24th Bond movie, the producers had Jaguar Land Rover's Special Vehicle
Operations supply ten of these unique Defenders, crew-cab 110s in Santorini
Black.
Then they sent them to Land Rover racing specialist
Bowler, which upgraded them even further. The ten Defenders were fitted with
37-inch tires – bolted directly to the bead-lock whees – along with Bilstein
rally dampers, engine upgraded from 120 hp to 185, a full roll cage, Recaro
racing buckets, harnesses, Warn winch, diamond-plated everything, and those
badass-looking ropes running up the nose and over the hood (for some reason).
The resulting vehicle was called the Land Rover
Defender SVX Concept, and while many of them were destroyed in the filming of
the movie, this one survived in tact. It was used only for drive-by footage,
and was subsequently sold to a private customer – who has now consigned it,
without reserve, to RM Sotheby's for sale at its upcoming auction in London
this September. Check out the badassity of it all in the images below by Simon
Clay for RM Sotheby's.
