Who would buy a 60-yr-old automotive design?
By Samuel Ee WHO would want to buy something based on a 60-year-old automotive design at almost double the price, you may ask? Well, quite a few people, apparently. To celebrate its 60th anniversary last year, Land Rover unveiled a special edition of the Defender – the SVX. This jazzed-up version of the iconic four-wheel-drive vehicle has Santorini Black metallic paint with matt black accents, a Titan silver front grille, LED tail lights, a spiffier cabin – and the same ladder frame chassis from 1948. Land Rover built only about 1,800 examples of the special edition Defender SVX in three body styles – a soft-top two-seater and a station wagon with three or five doors. Worldwide demand was so strong that authorised distributor Vantage Automotive was only allocated two units – one short-wheelbase station wagon and one long-wheelbase version. Both arrived last September and have been spoken for. Although the SVX station wagon is powered by the same 2.4-litre turbo-diesel engine as the con
