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Poppy Bilderbeck
A man who bought two hundred Land Rovers nearly a decade ago has revealed how much money he handed over to sell one.
While many of us were spending all the money we had on takeaways and random junk we definitely didn’t need, Charles Fawcett was thinking smarter and more intensely.
In 2015 he decided to buy not one, but two hundred Land Rover Defenders without an engine, the last in the range, and there is an approach to this obvious madness.
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Fawcett now stands to make a lot of money by selling even one member of his fleet.
Fawcett founded luxury car company Twisted in Yorkshire, UK, in 2000 and that year the company “introduced its first Land Rover-specific functional parts”, its site says.
In 2003 the first fully Twisted TD5 90 demonstration vehicle was created and during 2009 the company produced many traditional visiting vehicles for Land Rover Defender owners.
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So in 2015, Fawcett told Supercar Blondie that he went to the Defender production line in Solihull, England, to assemble the two hundred driverless Defenders.
If you had the same concept and bought one of those cars around 2015, it would cost you around $42,000, now?
Well, other people are now willing to pay big bucks to get their hands on one of Twisted’s two hundred custom-modified vehicles, offering up to $268,000 and up for one of the 16 the company has put up for sale. .
Multiply that by 16 and that’s more than $3 million. Why didn’t they tell us to buy Land Rovers in 2015, eh?
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Fawcett explains all of the cars were ‘registered in 2016 after production ceased identifying them among the last off the line and, arguably, more collectible’ and it’s not only that which has boosted their price.
Not only do the cars have less than 30 miles on the clock, which means they’re fairly new, but they’re all based on the most sensible Land Rover tier available at the time: the XS Spec.
Fawcett explained that the 16 models to be offered had been “carefully selected based on their chassis number and date of manufacture. “
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“They are special, and when they twist, one is unique. That’s why the limited series is called One of One,” he added.
In addition to choosing whether you need a gasoline or diesel engine, you can also upgrade the wheels, suspension, brakes, tires. . . Oh, and traditional LED lighting is also offered.
Fawcett resolved: “All 16 will be Twisted, but exactly how they do it depends on the customer’s lifestyle and tastes.
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“The Twisted way isn’t to tell people what their Defender should be; it’s to work with them to create a Defender that’s the best fit for them.”
Topics: Cars, Money, Travel, Business
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