Land Rover Defender 110, Pearl White

The reborn Defender 110 took one of the most copied silhouettes in motoring and reimagined it as a monocoque, fully independent machine without losing the upright glass, short overhangs and exposed structural cues that made the original a tool first and an object second. This is the long-wheelbase five-door, the family of the range, with seating for the whole household, the famous side-hinged tailgate carrying its spare wheel, and that deliberately industrial language of visible fixings, alpine roof lights and a near-vertical windscreen. It is built for people who want genuine all-terrain ability and a name that still means something at the school gate and the desert edge alike.

The model carries it in a clean pearl white over a black contrast roof, with a tan-and-red cabin visible through the glass and red calipers behind silver alloys; the white finish has the soft depth of a pearl rather than a flat coat. Details land where they should, from the Land Rover script on the lower tailgate to the picked-out tread on the spare. It is built at 1:18 and sits on a black display base.