Land Rover Defender Is Entering The Pick-Up Market

Although current information is currently limited this pickup is set for release in 2020 to challenge the Mercedes X-Class, more information is set to be released later this year to celebrate the company’s 70-year anniversary.

Land Rover has plans to sell a Defender pickup truck in a wide array of versions, ranging from a basic base model all the way up to a luxury high specification model. Currently, the Mercedes X-Class is the premium pickup on the market so they would need to develop their Defender to a high specification to compete.

The pick-up will be based around the longer-wheelbase Defender. It is most likely to be offered as a single-cab variant, offering a similar payload to a Navara, because it would be easier to adapt the Defender’s platform to a single-cab format than a double-cab.

While the regular Land Rover Defender is expected to spawn a plug-in hybrid and even a pure EV, the pickup truck won’t be going down that road. Because the model will likely be most popular in developing countries where electrification is not a big deal.

This is particularly interesting news to us here at 4x4AT as we wrote about to possibility of various 4x4 pickup trucks replacing Defenders after they ceased production, but now Land Rover would seem to be fighting back and potentially competing directly with their own pickup truck option.