Von Dur Land Rovers Haarlem · Aspen
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Create your custom Adventure

There is a version of the Defender that fits your life exactly. It is the only kind we build.

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No two alike

There is no standard build. Every surface and every fitting is decided, not inherited.

Yours to specify

Engine, stance, trim and finish — all of it settled to your brief.

Ready to drive

It arrives finished, registered and road-legal, on either side of the Atlantic.

A Von Dur Defender on a mountain road at sunset
The Von Dur process

It begins with a conversation

Before a single part is ordered we want to know where you will take it, what you will ask of it, and how it should feel at six in the morning. Nothing here is chosen from a shelf.

The Von Dur process

Then every decision is yours

We find your Defender somewhere in Europe and reduce it to a bare frame. Everything after that is a decision you get to make — the colour, mixed for you; the leather, from more than fifty; every panel painted on its own. It goes back together the way you described it.

Hand-stitched tan leather seats in a finished Von Dur Defender
The Von Dur process

You will see it before you touch it

When it is finished we take it somewhere worth photographing, and those pictures reach you before the car does. Then it is tested hard, cleared through customs, and delivered wherever you are.

A finished Von Dur Defender photographed at dusk beside still water
Photographing
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The instrument cluster of a finished Von Dur Defender, showing 282 kilometres
Powertrain

How should it sound?

A quiet diesel that will cross a continent without asking anything of you. Or six point two litres of American V8 that will not let you forget what you are driving. The engine is the first thing you decide, and it changes every decision after it.

What we fit
  • Land Rover TD5 160 hp
  • Land Rover V8 225 hp
  • Chevrolet LS3 430 hp
  • BMW M54 & N62 231–367 hp
  • ZF 8HP 8-speed
Von Dur BMW Engines
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Your Defender doesn’t exist yet

Somewhere there is a road you have been meaning to drive. Until you decide it should, the car that takes you there stays where it is now — in your head.

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