Lunaz has revealed a 375bhp electrified Range Rover Safari, and it's amazing

Convertible off-roaders are not cool. Except when they’re old Range Rover convertibles. And they’ve been in a Roger Moore-era Bond film. And when they’ve been modified and electrified to within an inch of their sizeable mass.

Welcome to the latest quite blue salvo from Silverstone’s premier Electrifier Of Very Old Things, Lunaz. It is a Range Rover Safari – just like Bond drove in Octopussy! – completely renovated and filled with electrons and wonder and covered in a very special blue for a very special customer.

It’s the first time the company has modified a Range Rover to be open-topped and as such, it's deviated from its usual Range Rover Classic offerings. Specifically, Lunaz has thrown a load of girders at it. Indeed, “the body and chassis have been substantially reinforced” to maintain the big lug’s structural integrity. The end result is said to be ‘robust’. How very Bond.

Further robustness arrives in the form of the company’s now proven – though secret – electric drivetrain. Lunaz tells TG this particular car, tailored to this particular client, features a twin-motor, all-wheel-drive setup capable of producing 280kW (375bhp). This is significantly more than an old combustion-engined Range Rover is capable of producing.

So Lunaz has fitted better suspension (adjustable dampers and bespoke springs all round) and better brakes (six-piston calipers up front, four-piston calipers on the back, bigger discs). Naturally this being an EV, there’s proper regenerative braking too.

And proper off-roading ability. Lunaz says this Safari can actually safari, with a 500mm wading depth and all the original car’s approach, breakover and departure angles. There’s a unique interior, indeed the most ‘extensive’ development the company has done yet, that’ll inform the interiors of the 50 RR Classic build slots still available.

So, the original dash has been binned and in its place sits a new 3D-printed console (designed in house, naturally), with a new infotainment screen stuffed with Apple CarPlay/Android Auto and a reversing camera, and digital air-con/media controls among other modern things.

Each seat is heated, and features newer, better padding. It wears leather and a new waterproof textile for obvious open-topped-old-Range-Rover reasons. All in, it took 1,000 hours to construct. The entire car took more than 5,000.

Which is why it costs many, many pounds. ‘Regular’ electrified Lunaz Range Rovers kick off at just under £470k, but the Range Rover Safari commissions will cost from just under £530k. Half a million quid for an old Range Rover.

“This commission continues a trend wherein Lunaz has become a focal point for the world’s young, dynamic green technology and sustainability entrepreneurs,” the company said. “Lunaz sees elevating classic cars as a positive, life-affirming vision of a clean-air future. In it, sustainability does not involve joyless compromises, or repudiating these beautiful, historically significant machines, which themselves represented the apex of automotive technology in their own age.

“Rather, the Lunaz elevation process improves them in every conceivable way.” And makes them pretty cool, too.