Twisted Automotive is to Land Rover Defenders what . Once you've seen their products, only slightly twisted Defenders will do. With an LS3.

Charles Fawcett came from a Land Rover loving family, started his automotive career with a beaten Series 3 Land Rover with a terrible misfire and that rust bucket had enough charm to get him hooked on these brutally honest off-roaders forever.

Defenders haven't really changed since the introduction of the 90 and 110 in 1983 and in the last three decades, some of them also left the factory with a screwdriver left under the bonnet or loose bolts jammed under their carpet. Twisted uses that are immediately taken apart again and upgraded with the suspension, engine and comfort upgrades the customer specified. The results are Defenders ready to conquer this century.

The classic Land Rover's story will almost definitely come to an end this December, but before it…

Sometimes, Twisted builds one-offs as well, like a 110 with a 520 horsepower LS3 conversion. It's not impossible to , but since the V8 is 400 hp more powerful than the stock engine, creating such a car "takes bit of an engineering". Yet the upgraded car is still a Defender, so it won't insult anyone parked on the street unlike let's say a . It really is the best of both worlds.

Land Rover will this December, but Twisted has a big enough stock to continue building T40s, T60s and T80s for another three years. After that, who knows? Twisted might just make its own car. If the upcoming new Defender will be softer than it should be, there will be demand for a worthy successor...

The Land Rover's story started in Red Wharf Bay in 1947 when Maurice Wilks drew his first sketch in