Our electric Land Rover has had a motor and controller upgrade. It's time to see what it can do, both on road and off road. We do a 0-60 mph test and take it into the hills of Wales to check that the off road ability of the Land Rover is still there. We also check that the regenerative braking effect of the electric motor is enough to act as a hill descent mode.
The Land Rover Defender is still 4 wheel drive, but now has a performance Tesla motor in it out of a Tesla Model S P100D, as well as the 100kWh battery pack out of the same Tesla. All the electrics are sealed so it can wade deeper than an ICE equivalent.

Is there a quicker 4x4 than this that can perform both on and off road?

BF Goodrich All Terrain tyres.

Ashcroft Transmissions upgraded half shafts, CV joints and limited slip diffs to cope with the instant torque of the electric motor.

Top Gear presenter, Paddy McGuinness, picked this Land Rover Defender as his favourite EV of 2022, and described it as "The most fun I’ve had in any car ever on Top Gear.".