Acquired by Land Rover in late 2019 and integrated into its Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) division at the end of that year, Bowler has now been granted permission by JLR to use the shape of the original Defender in the making of new high performance off-roaders.
The silhouette of the iconic Defender will
live on through the renowned British company and will be used on a new
road-legal model dubbed the CSP 575. It will launch next year in limited
numbers at an estimated UK price of £ 200,000 (US$ 260,000), and has been
previewed by these official early renderings.
The CSP 575 will be based on Bowler’s CSP
high-strength steel chassis, use the aluminum alloy body panels of the Defender
110 and will be capable of seating four and hauling their luggage. The
competition-inspired 4×4 will be powered by Land Rover’s supercharged 5.0-liter
V8, which pumps out 575 PS, and will arrive with all the
bells and whistles that the company is famous for.
Bowler will assemble the CSP 575 by hand
at their factory in Derbyshire and claims that it will be “the first of several
new projects to be announced over the next couple of years”.
