Pickups are hot right now, but perhaps no modern pickup can be hotter than a resto-modded Land Rover Defender 110 Pickup. RK Motors out of Charlotte, NC has taken one and made it more rugged,…

Pickups are hot right now, but perhaps no modern pickup can be hotter than a resto-modded Land Rover Defender 110 Pickup. RK Motors out of Charlotte, NC has taken one and made it more rugged,…
Decorating a car’s chassis as the focus of automobile is like spending all your time on the frame of a piece of artwork while ignoring the canvas. Good thing the CoolNVintage’s Build 77 Art Defender…
We’re not going to waste any time explaining why you want a vintage Land Rover in your garage because we know you already do. For most of us, the six figure price tag that comes…
The Flying Huntsman 6×6 from the UK’s Chelsea Truck Co. brings refinement and a sinister look to the legendary Defender 110’s ruggedness. Six knobby tires and wheels are driven by a 2.2-liter turbodiesel engine, and…
Kahn Design / Project Kahn / Chelsea Truck Company have been turning great vehicles into exceptional ones for as long as we’ve been reporting on them. They’ve colored outside the lines with Jeeps and McLarens,…
In case the knighthood wasn’t indication enough, British fashion designer Sir Paul Smith is an icon. One of the things he’s most known for is his eclectic use of bold colors throughout his designs. He’s…
If you’re an avid Cool Material reader, you’ve heard of Kahn Design before. The team of industrial designers take lust-worthy vehicles—most often Land Rovers—and make them even more lust-worthy. After the fanfare for the Flying Huntsman 110…
If you’re not familiar with East Coast Defender, you don’t read Cool Material too often. We’re kinda fanboys. That’s why we’re more than a little excited about their latest build, Project KSD. The handcrafted Malibu Edition Defender 110…
There are only a small handful of brands we’d trust with six figures of our money to build us a proper Defender, and Arkonik is one of them. The Avant-garde is a Bonatti Grey (that…
The Land Rover Defender is already an iconic, rugged vehicle, but that won’t stop Project Kahn from doing their own redesign. Under their design team’s guiding hand, the Defender went from a capable, comfortable machine…
East Coast Defender, the company that builds some of the best Land Rover Defenders on the market with their 16 full-time employees and 11,000 sqf. facility, is upping the ante on Project Beast with five…
There have been plenty cool LEGO versions of real cars over the years, but Sariel built a working LEGO RC Land Rover Defender 90 that blows them all out of the water. Powered by two…
From their Dodge Power Wagon and VW Bus, to their Bronco and reimagined Chevrolet 3100 Thriftmaster, California-based ICON has a way of taking vehicles that were already iconic in their own right and turning them…