You voted for which of today’s cars are most deserving of future classic status. Here are the winners
“IT’S NOT A proper Defender! It’s too posh! It doesn’t have a hose-out interior!” There will always be those who think that once a car has nailed its colours to the wall and defined its place and role in the world, that’s what it has to be forever. Nonsense. Cars have always had to move with the times in order to stay relevant, and this is a brilliant reinterpretation of Land Rover’s classic.
What makes it a future classic in the eyes of our judges is that, despite taking inspiration from the original car, it’s also fresh-feeling and so well executed that it effortlessly escapes any sense of being a modern pastiche., for example, and yet it’s not retro. The three-door 90 model’s proportions are so perfectly absurd that looking at it never fails to brighten your day: it’s like a giant cartoon puppy.
The revived Defender takes its function seriously, too. Yes, it’s expensive, but then farmers weren’t really buying old-style Defenders any more. Thanks to supremely clear approach and departure angles and commanding ground clearance and wading depth, and helped by clever electronics that can nip at individual brakes in a way that no driver ever could, the Defender is a formidable car to drive off the road.
Some cars lose some of their identity as they age because they’re no longer the fastest, the most powerful or the most technologically advanced of their kind. But it’s easy to see how the Defender would continue to delight even when it transitions to becoming an old car. Local trips in comfort, longer holidays four-up or off-road expeditions will all be just as much fun in 15 or 20 years’ time as they would be today.
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