This is a 2009 Land Rover Defender 90 Pickup. One of a number of off-road capable vehicles produced by Land Rover, the Defender's lineage dates back to 1948 with the Series 1 Land Rover designed by Maurice Wilks.
What would become known as the Defender was first introduced in 1983 as the One Ten or 110, essentially a modernized derivative of the previous Land Rover Series with coil springs, a Range Rover-derived permanent all-wheel drive system and a modernized interior among other things. Named as such for its 110 inch (2.8 m) wheelbase, the Ninety and 127 soon followed in the coming years. The models were renamed to Defender in while retaining their 90 and 110 designations while the 127 nameplate was replaced with 130.
The Defender was forced to acquire a name due to the introduction of the Discovery in 1989, as well as a a new 2.5L Land Rover 200 TDi turbodiesel inline-4. A number of additional engines were offered over the years, such as a 3.0L Rover V8, a 5.0L Jaguar AJ-V8 V8 or various Ford DuraTorq inline-4s; South African Defenders were offered with 2.8L BMW M52B28 inline-6s for a time. Land Rover would attempt to take the Defender up market in the 1990s while retaining its working roots with the introduction of limited edition versions. The Defender was facelifted and enhanced in 2009 and again in 2012; it was discontinued on 29 January 2016 when a Grasmere Green Defender 90 rolled off the Solihull production line. The "Defender" name would be revived in 2020 for an all-new line of luxury SUVs. 2,016,933 were produced.
Now this casting was designed by Dima Shakhmatov and introduced in 2023 in the Elite 64 line. This is currently its only release. It has no moving features.
