Land Rover Defender Urban

Urban Automotive are the British tuning house that turned the Defender into a status car. Theirs is the widened arch kit, the blacked-out grille and badging, the roof light bar, the side steps, the quad exhaust and the forged alloys — all of it engineered properly rather than bolted on.

Underneath it is still a Defender: permanent four-wheel drive, air suspension, Terrain Response and genuine off-road ability that almost nobody will ever use.

Ours is finished in black with the full Urban conversion, black wheels, Urban spare wheel cover and mud flaps, over a black leather interior. It is the car that photographs best on the fleet, which is why it goes out so often for weddings and events.

Five seats, a proper boot and real presence. It is valeted, safety-checked and fuelled before every handover, and photographed at collection and return.