The Market For Bulletproof Vehicles Is Exploding
The 2020 Range Rover Sentinel, which made its debut in March, contains more than a ton of ballistic steel plate and armored glass inside its body. It can withstand a pipe bomb exploding from point-blank range and can weather rounds of bullets shot by AK-47s, AR-15s and 9mm pistols. Its 510-horsepower V-8 engine can ford deep water, descend steep mountains and sprint at 120 mph 鈥?an admirable feat considering that the Sentinel weighs 10,000 pounds, more than twice the weight of a regular Range Rover. It also has a hatch that allows those inside to escape through the rear luggage compartment, in case the doors should become unusable. Engineered and built by Land Rover鈥檚 Special Vehicle Operations team in West Midlands, England, it鈥檚 not the first bulletproof vehicle Land Rover has made in-house, but it鈥檚 certainly the toughest. The Sentinel鈥檚 release highlights a segment of the automotive industry that often goes unnoticed: the manufacture and sale of armored vehicles.
This is going to be a long post. It took me much longer to install the rock sliders than I thought it would. Here's how I installed the Terrafirma T818 rock sliders onto my 2015 Land Rover LR4. I bought the sliders from Lucky8. They didn't come with instructions, just a bag-o-bolts/washers/nuts. I'd read LR forum posts indicating that the mounting holes on the slider might not align with the holes on the car. In one post, Scott Brady was defending Terrafirma saying that LR seems to be moving the holes on the car. After I removed the running boards, I compared the bolt hole patterns on the rock sliders to the holes I could see on the car. Existing holes used by the running boards appear to align with the holes in the rock sliders. I wondered if I might be able to use the T40 Torx bolts that held the running boards to bolt the sliders into the same threaded holes in the frame.
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The second-row seats provide access to a couple of USB and 12-volt charging ports, while the third-row seats come with an USB and a 12-volt socket. Additional 12-volt and 120-volt sockets are available for the trunk. The 2020 Defender rides on a brand-new architecture. As far as engines go, the 2020 Defender comes to the U.S. The base trims is called the P300 and features a 2.0-liter four-cylinder rated at 296 horsepower. As you might have already guessed, this mill is shared with most Land Rover and Jaguar models, as it鈥檚 part of JLR鈥檚 family of Ingenium mills. The turbocharged engine is powerful enough to push the Defender from 0 to 60 mph in 7.7 seconds. The mill mates to a ZF eight-speed automatic transmission and twin-speed transfer box. The latter provides a set of low-range ratios for towing and off-road driving. The second trim available is the P400 MHEV and, as the name suggests, it鈥檚 a mild hybrid. This system brings together a turbocharged, 3.0-liter six-cylinder gasoline engine and a 4.8-volt electric supercharger. Land Rover replaced the traditional alternator with a belt-integrated starter motor, which assists the gas engine under acceleration.
