TAKE a look at the new generation

Land Rover Defender in light camouflage, undergoing extreme testing in the desert, above, ahead of its official unveiling later this year.

The pictures were released just as the firm confirmed that the successor to the Queen’s favourite 4x4 will be built in Slovakia, rather than in Britain. Brexit is not the reason, it insists.

The new Defender fleet of two-door and four-door vehicles has already undergone more than 744,000 miles of extreme testing and will complete more than 45,000 individual tests in some of the world’s most inhospitable places.