2023 Land Rover Defender 110 V8

This 2023 Defender 110 V8 pairs the workhorse silhouette of Land Rover's reinvented icon with the 5.0-litre supercharged V8 lifted from Jaguar Land Rover's performance catalogue. 518 bhp and 625 lb-ft give it 5.1-second 0-60 pace — remarkable for a full-fat three-tonne-towing ladder-frame-derived SUV — while a bespoke suspension tune, quad exhausts and active rear diff separate it decisively from the P400 variants.

Finished in grey and showing 19,338 miles from new, this 73-plate example is configured with the full complement of toys: Matrix LED headlights with signature DRLs, three-zone climate with rear cooling, 360-degree camera with parking assistance, and an electrically deployable towbar paired with Advanced Tow Assist — retaining the full 3,500 kg towing rating that makes the V8 a genuinely useful tool as well as a fast one.

Euro 6 compliant and running the eight-speed ZF automatic driving all four wheels, it sits in the small niche of road-biased V8 Defenders that Land Rover has since reshuffled with the OCTA — making well-specified P525 examples an increasingly interesting proposition.