Someone paid $600,000 for a Land Rover Defender

Land Rovers keep getting more expensive, but $600,000? That seems like a lot – and it is – especially when the vehicle in question is a bare-bones, stripped-out Defender, and not, say, a fully loaded Range Rover Sport SVR. But this isn’t any ordinary Defender, or a typical sale.

This is the 2,000,000th example Land Rover has built, counting all the Series models and Defenders that have rolled off the line at Solihull over the course of nearly seven decades. The milestone unit was specially outfitted with an engraved map of Red Wharf Bay (where the design was first envisioned) along with leather seats and special badges. The manufacturer handed it over to Bonhams, which auctioned it off as part of a special event at its London headquarters. It sold to a Qatari buyer for an impressive £400,000 – equivalent to nearly $600,000 at current exchange rates.

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