Defender fans have been frothing at the mouth that anybody could dare to meddle with their favourite 4x4 by far, but there’s no question that, with the DC100, Land Rover has kept the Defender DNA. According to Land Rover, the concepts capture the flexibility, adaptability and configurability that have always been key attributes and continue in today’s Defender, but incorporate cutting-edge, sustainable, and hi-tech materials.

“In creating these concepts, we took the functional design cues from the past and reinterpreted them for the 21st century,” the company says. The two studies presented – one a short wheelbase wagon and the other an open-top sports model – represent Land Rover’s thoughts on how they will forge “an entirely new generation of Defender models which will prove that design can work in harmony with function”.

Er... yes.