The Defender sports revised front and rear lighting signatures complemented by redesigned bumpers and a refreshed grille.

It feels like yesterday when the new Land Rover Defender was first driven out of the roof at the Frankfurt Motorshow in 2019.

I was fortunate enough to be there along with a throng of global motoring journalists, and while many lamented its 180-degree turnaround from the much-loved rugged predecessor that conquered continents, it is now the backbone of Jaguar Land Rover.

I was also lucky enough to drive pre-production models in Namibia early in 2020 before the world went topsy-turvy thanks to Covid-19.

We were told to drive it as if we stole it because technicians and engineers needed the data to feed back to the head office in Solihull to make improvements where necessary.