Traveling to one of the world’s oldest and most arcane motorsport events in one of Rover’s newest Defenders.
—black over black with satin dark gray 22-inch wheels and four chrome exhaust pipes peeking out from under the rear bumper, exactly the—would look right at home parked out front of L.A.’s swanky Beverly Hills Hotel. Instead, it’s parked in the mud atop a wind-swept cliff in Cornwall, England.up a steep, rock-strewn track that would have the Defender’s sophisticated all-wheel-drive system sweating as it computed the traction options.
Today’s Land’s End Trial has nowhere near its prewar scale or glamour. It now starts well west of London and focuses on back roads in the quieter parts of Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. Many of the eclectic bunch of cars taking part—everything from vintage Fords and MGs to ’60s and ’70s British roadsters and sedans to Toyota MR2s, air-cooled VW Beetles,The rules are simple.
Against the 650 hp and more packed by the Ferrari, Lambo, Aston, and Bentley SUVs, the Defender V8’s 518 hp seems weak sauce. And its 461 lb-ft of torque is no match for the 641 lb-ft produced by the recently refreshed AMG G63.
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