Born as a rugged workhorse for farmers, the classic British Land Rover has always been rough and ready.
But now, it seems, it's been pumped with the automotive equivalent of steroids.
For the new Land Rover Defender, unveiled yesterday at the Frankfurt Motor Show, is a muscular open-topped beast of a car.
Codenamed the DC100 Sport, it is designed to be as useful off-road as the trusty original of 1948.
But, bristling with high-tech wizardry and with a strikingly macho appearance, it is likely to appeal to fashionable city dwellers when it goes on sale from 2015.
Source: Daily Mail Online
