Low-mileage Land Rover Defender expected to fetch $150,000
This Land Rover Defender Adventure was the last of its kind to roll off the historic Solihull production line in 2016.
An immaculate low-mileage Land Rover Defender Adventure in as-new condition is expected to fetch more than twice its original sticker price as collectors develop an appetite for the classic British off-roader.
The example – a 2016 Land Rover Defender 110 Adventure with only 84 kilometres on the odometer – is the last Adventure-spec Defender to come off the Solihull production line in January 2016.
Being the last one of 600 examples of the Adventure-spec Land Rover Defender 110 – and with such low kilometres – online auction firm Collecting Cars is expecting the hammer to fall in excess of $150,000.
The Adventure model grade was one of three specifications used to celebrate the end of the road for the classic Land Rover Defender, which also included Heritage and Autobiography editions.
In Australia, the 2016 Land Rover Defender Adventure was priced from $68,510 for the long-wheelbase 110, while the short-wheelbase Defender 90 Adventure was priced from $61,896.
Changes to the Defender Adventure included LED headlights, Phoenix Orange paint, an aluminium bash plate and underbody protection, gloss-black alloy wheels with a machined finish and wrapped in Goodyear mud terrain tyres.
There’s also contrasting Santorini black paint on the flares, roof, and bonnet, and an interior with leather highlights.
An auction price in excess of $100,000 isn’t unheard of for collectible examples of the classic Land Rover Defender, with models in Australia, the US, and the UK fetching top dollar in recent years.
A quick search online has unearthed more than a dozen examples of the original Land Rover Defender – known through its model code L316 – with asking prices in excess of $100,000 in Australia.
The 29th of January 2016 marked the end of a 70-year long history of Defender production, with a total of 2,016,933 examples being produced since 1948.
The 2,000,000th Defender was auctioned for $758,514, with the proceeds of the sale going to charity.
The last-ever Land Rover Defender – specified as closely as possible to the first example of the Land Rover off the production line in 1948 – was kept by Land Rover and became part of the Land Rover Heritage Collection
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