Twisted Range Rover Classic
When Land Rover announced it was killing the original Defender, Yorkshire-based Twisted bought 240 brand-new final-year models for almost $10 million, securing a decade of pristine donor vehicles and building a restomod benchmark in the process. Now they've turned that same obsessive engineering philosophy on the Range Rover Classic. The TRRC starts with a 1990-92 two-door donor, strips the chassis to bare metal, blasts and e-coats it in satin black, then re-skins the entire exterior in hammer-formed aluminum panels with tolerances Twisted describes only as obsessive. The front bumper nods to the 1970s Classic, the grille and headlights to the 1990s. Power comes from GM's 379-cubic-inch LT1 V8 producing 500 horsepower, routed through an eight-speed automatic, with six-piston front brakes, four-pot rears, and suspension tuned for suppleness rather than sport. Inside, seats sit lower than stock, leather covers every surface, and soundproofing mounts to the underside of the carpet so you can peel it back and see the pristine metalwork beneath. Twisted builds just 12 a year, and the waiting list is already growing.
