2026 Child Land Rover Defender might be referred to as ‘Defender Sport’ – report

Land Rover’s new ‘child Defender’ off-road SUV has been spied testing once more, this time revealing extra clues to its last look forward of an anticipated introduction in 2027 – and additional clues to what it is going to be referred to as. 

Recent photos from British publication Autocar present extra particulars, together with a greater take a look at the excessive waistline, tall doorways, and trademark clamshell bonnet of the rugged, upmarket SUV.

The burned doorways seen within the photos are seemingly misdirection, because the camouflaged take a look at automobile seems to observe the identical general look as the present Defender, beneath which it is going to be positioned as a smaller, extra inexpensive entry-level off roader.

It options the identical flush door handles and outward-opening tailgate – together with what seems to be provision for an externally mounted spare wheel – because the car seen in spy photos from final month. 

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Autocar suggests the smaller SUV might be named ‘Defender Sport’, which might be per the names of the smaller Vary Rover Sport and Discovery Sport fashions, and that it may really substitute the present Discovery Sport first launched again in 2014.

Any naming resolution would even be per the newest ‘Home of manufacturers’ method by JLR (previously generally known as Jaguar Land Rover), wherein mannequin names together with Defender and Discovery are ‘dialled up’ and handled as distinctive sub-brands inside Land Rover.

In accordance with Autocar, the Defender Sport identify was inadvertently added to Land Rover’s public web site however seen solely through web engines like google. 

Nevertheless, there’s additionally an opportunity JLR may use a numerical identify for its smaller Defender, which may doubtlessly be designated because the ‘Defender 80’ to place it beneath the prevailing Defender 90, 110 and 130 mannequin derivatives.