So what’s the catch? There isn’t one. The Yorkshire-based tuners have been converting Land Rovers for 20 years already, so they know a thing or two about the Defender. Unless you consider the price of £70,000, that is, which could well buy you two new Land Rover Defenders, and doesn’t even include the base car on which Twisted does the conversion…
Comprising an “EV drivetrain, exclusive direct drive power system and US-made electric motor”, it can be fitted to 90, 110 and 130 Defenders. Here in the UK, the job is done at their Bristol factory over roughly a fortnight.
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