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The Unibody Butcher: How Urban Automotive Hacked a Pickup Out of the Modern Defender

When Land Rover ditched the traditional ladder frame, it quietly killed its iconic factory pickup. Urban Automotive’s 'Avontur' project is bringing it back—through sheer, structurally terrifying force of engineering will.

When Land Rover engineers finally put the classic, agriculturally beloved Defender out to pasture and introduced the L663 generation, they traded centuries-old simplicity for…

Unveiled to the public at the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Avontur is not your typical cosmetic bolt-on exercise.

The engineering realities of slicing open a unibody SUV are, to put it mildly, nightmarish.

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When Land Rover ditched the traditional ladder frame, it quietly killed its iconic factory pickup. Urban Automotive’s 'Avontur' project is bringing it back—through sheer, structurally terrifying force of engineering will.

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