The all-new 2020
Land Rover Defender will offer one of the most complex lineups in the industry.
The range will include three body styles (90, 110, 130), six powertrains, four
accessory packs, 170 individual accessories (including a folding fabric roof
for the 110), and even a Commercial model. There will be a new Defender for
everyone, apparently.
Something the new
Defender won’t offer is a pickup version, though. Unfortunately for fans of
rugged pickups, it turns out that Land Rover scrapped plans to build a dual-cab
truck based on the forthcoming Defender 130. A senior Jaguar Land Rover source
told Australia’s Carsales that the pickup derivative had been dropped from the
SUV specialist’s plans.
Originally, Land
Rover planned to launch the Defender pickup in late 2020 or early 2021 based on
the upcoming Defender 130 SUV which reportedly will measure 5,100 mm (130
inches) in length. However, plans have changed since then as JLR bosses deemed
a Defender pickup would be redundant.
If you want to know
what we’ll be missing, rendering artist X-Tomi has digitally converted the
recently unveiled 2020 Defender 110 SUV into a single cab pickup. Mind you,
it’s not the exact type of pickup body Land Rover originally had in mind but
the rendering offers us a pretty good idea of what a new Defender pickup would
look like.
