We’ve known Bowler for years of her Land Rover-like creations, but now it can go one step further. With official Land Rover approval, there will be a fierce off-roader with the classic Defender 110 body.
The now 21-year-old Bowler has come up with various extreme off-roaders over the years. The Bowler Wildcat was a two-door with Defender pull, the Nemesis followed the same principle, but based on the Range Rover Sport. At a glance, however, it was clear that it was not a Land Rover creation. That changes in a sense with the next Bowler. Land Rover has Bowler (which has since been incorporated into Land Rovers Special Vehicle Operations) approval to use the body of the primal Defender.
So there is a Bowler that rubs against the original more than ever. The car, provisionally codenamed CSP 575, can only be seen in computer illustrations. The actual construction of prototypes has yet to begin. In any case, it promises to be quite something. Despite the official Defender bodywork, the car is in fact a Bowler. It stands on a chassis specially developed by Bowler and can hardly be compared with an original Defender 110 in terms of chassis, suspension and braking.
In the nose of the new Bowler you can find something of the Land Rover shelves. It will contain the well-known supercharged 5.0 V8. It produces 575 hp in the ‘CSP 575’ – as the name suggests. Undoubtedly more than enough to send the Bowler crazy over rough terrain. Next year, the first new Bowler since 2016 should go into production and be available in a limited edition. Bowler is already offering an expected British price of 200,000 pounds, converted around € 223,000.