Published: 24 December 2020
The first new Bowler since 2016’s Bulldog will be a rapid road-going remix of the old Defender. Hand-made by Bowler in Belper, it’s code-named CSP 575. That’s CSP, as in Cross Sector Platform, and 575, as in the output in metric horsepower of the 5.0-litre supercharged V8 that powers it.
It’s the first Bowler developed since Land Rover’s SVO division assumed control, so of course it uses the shape of the Defender 110 Station Wagon with JLR’s complete blessing. There’s a point being made here, after Ineos found itself having to persuade a court that its Grenadier was sufficiently different from the old Defender.