Yorkshire-based Twisted Automotive has carved out a niche for itself as globally-renowned specialists in re-engineering iconic British 4x4s such as the Land Rover Defender, but the company has finally turned its attention to one of the most iconic of all.
Dubbed ‘TRRC’, those initials will quickly give away that the Range Rover Classic is its latest reworked classic, and this latest addition to Twisted’s range is a deeply personal one for founder Charles Fawcett.
“When I think back to the 1980’s, my father always seemed to have a two-door Range Rover, and there was one particular one that stood out,” Fawcett explains.
“It was terracotta brown with fibreglass extended wheel arches and white Weller eight-spoke wheels shod with General Grabber road-oriented tyres. On the front, he’d fabricated a valance out of an MGB GT front spoiler.
“To me, it was just iconic. Today, the TRRC exists out of unapologetic nostalgia, recreating something I remember from when I was a tiny boy. I think many customers will relate to that feeling.”
Just 12 hand-built examples of the TRRC are set to be produced each year, with all 2026 build slots already accounted for. They won’t come cheap either, with a starting price of £350,000 (A$657,170 at the time of writing).
But for such a pricely sum, this is far more than a retrimmed old Rangie. Based around a 1990-92 Range Rover Classic donor vehicle, each example wears bespoke, hammer-formed aluminium bodywork with “obsessive panel tolerances”.
It also packs a punch as the old Rover V8 has made way for a General Motors ‘LT1’ 6.2-litre V8 producing 373kW (500hp), with it backed by a modern eight-speed automatic.
The suspension has also been significantly reengineered, largely in line with Twisted’s Defender-based T90 and T110. However, Fawcett noted that the company “spent an age tweaking the bushings so that you got something that was sharp and super drivable but not too harsh [because] a Range Rover needs to be supple.”
The TRRC blends various Classic eras when it comes to the looks, with a 1970s front bumper teamed with a ’90s-style grille and headlight surrounds at the front. Bespoke tooling has also been designed to create new hammer-formed aluminium panels for every external surface.
Other bespoke design choices include the C-pillar, which customers can choose to have painted in body colour (rather than the traditional floating roof look) to accentuate its two-door silhouette.
Its interior has also been reengineered, with the seats positioned lower than the originals so the driver’s eye-line is directed at the upper half of the windscreen.
Available in both left- or right-hand drive, Twisted has announced that the TRRC will be shipped globally, although such limited availability means they’ll be hard to come by.
