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Land Rover Defender SVX 2023.

Land Rover prepares a competitor for Mercedes-AMG G500: first details about Defender SVX.

Car maker Land Rover began work on a brand new off-road Defender, which will compete with the upcoming Mercedes-AMG G500 4×4 Squared.

According to experts, we can talk about preparations for the start of production of the Land Rover Defender SVX 2023 model.

About such a possibility of release previously reported. Division of Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) planned to launch a brand SVX for the most extreme modifications of production models and sell them together with cars SVR and SVAutobiography.

The first model in this family was to be the Discovery SVX with a 518 horsepower V8 engine.

If this version had been deemed successful, it could well have been extended to future Defender models.

Now that prototypes of the heavily modified Land Rover Defender managed to notice on the Nurburgring racetrack, we can conclude that plans to produce promising SVX decided to come to fruition.

It is expected that the power will be provided by a 5-liter supercharged V8 engine.

Its output will make 518 horsepower, and the unit itself will accelerate the SUV to 100 km/h in 4.9 seconds.

Defender SVX will have many visual differences from the standard car.

The wheel arches, for example, will be greatly widened. It is also expected that the suspension will be raised, and tires will be custom-made to conquer off-road.

Other distinguishing features of this exclusive creation could be an external safety cage, front winch and protective elements of the body.

While it is difficult to name the exact dates of the debut of the promising SUV, as well as its prices. It is likely that it will not appear on the market until next year.

Details about the high-performance SUV are still scarce, but some details suggest that it could become an off-road competitor to the Mercedes-AMG G 63.

The Land Rover Defender SVX / SVR V8 test prototype spotted at the Nürburgring circuit shows four exhaust manifolds.

This is a direct hint that we have a version of Defender with a 5.0-liter V8 engine with 518 hp.

Meanwhile, the widened wheel arches suggest that this will be an even more performance-oriented car than the existing V8.

On the other hand, the wheels are clearly off-road-oriented, and BF Goodrich all-terrain tires complete the SUV’s image.

If that’s the case, Land Rover could use the help of Bowler, which it recently bought, to build its high-performance Defender.

It’s still unclear what the more powerful version of the Defender will be called, but the brand could choose the name SVR or SVX, which it gave to the extreme Discovery concept in 2017.