DefenderX Amphibious Defender 110
DefenderX: two Defender 110 station wagons, Princess and The Mother Ship, fitted with bolt-on pontoons and an engine-driven X-drive propeller plus 38-inch tyres for an attempted London to New York drive-and-swim expedition — trophy yellow with a black bonnet, grille and arches, an external roll cage, roof rack and LED bar.
History
The DefenderX project set out to drive and swim from London to New York in Land Rover Defenders: the route would cross Europe and Russia by road, then the Bering Strait, Alaska and Canada, with the sea crossings made by the vehicles themselves. Two Defender 110 station wagons, named Princess and The Mother Ship, were converted with bolt-on inflatable pontoons either side, an engine-driven X-drive propeller for propulsion afloat, 38-inch snow tyres for ice and tundra, external roll cages, roof racks with LED light bars, snorkels and yellow expedition livery with black bonnets, grilles and arches. The project's photograph shows one of them under way at sea on its pontoons. Whether the crossing was completed is not stated on the project's site.
The registry's model is a Defender 110 station wagon in trophy yellow with the black bonnet skin, grille and arches, an external cage, rack, LED bar and snorkel, and black pontoons either side that can be released, as the queue asks.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover (Defender 110 station wagon); amphibious conversion by the DefenderX team
- Manufactured
- Defender 110 station wagons converted for the DefenderX expedition (2020s)
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- DefenderX expedition team (pontoons, X-drive propeller, 38-inch tyres) — built by the team themselves, no commercial builder recorded
- Engine type
- Land Rover turbo-diesel driving an X-drive propeller afloat (engine not stated in the source)
- Production run
- 2
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Operated in
- United Kingdom
- Status
- unknown
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Defender
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 110″
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Sources & citations
Researched sources
- DefenderX — the amphibious Defender expedition (project site) ↗ — DefenderX (accessed 2026-09-11)
Catalogue references
- https://defenderx.com/ https://defenderx.com/ ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-11T11:09:31.074Z · status: researched