Lunaz unveils two restored Range Rover Classics, Kermit and Nevada

Lunaz has revealed two new commissions built on the classic Range Rover, named Kermit and Nevada, each demonstrating a different route through the Silverstone restomod specialist's catalogue. One keeps a modern V8, the other runs on Lunaz's own bespoke electric powertrain. Both are built on the original four-door Range Rover Classic bodyshell.

Whether combustion or electric, Lunaz says each car puts out around 350bhp, up from around 200bhp in the most powerful Range Rover Classic of its era. That gain, on a shell Land Rover first built decades ago, is the clearest sign of what the company's conversion work is meant to change.

Kermit is a Pop Art commission finished in vivid green inside and out, with a contrasting colour strip across specially trimmed seats and orange seatbelts set against a cloth and leather dash. It began life as a black-on-black Range Rover built by fellow specialist Overfinch, and under the skin it now runs a modern V8.

Lunaz built its own dashboard and centre console for Kermit, 3D printed and styled to echo the original shapes while housing uprated air conditioning, satellite navigation and multimedia. The company describes the changes as extensive but subtle, aside from the colour, a distinction that matters more once the car is parked next to Nevada.

What sets Nevada apart

Nevada takes the opposite approach: a refined, traditional look built for a client's use on an extensive ranch in the state it is named for. It runs Lunaz's bespoke electric running gear rather than Kermit's V8, and pairs a dark green exterior with ivory leather, tailored textiles and wooden trim inside.

Both interiors were developed in close collaboration with Lunaz's in-house design team, and both can be specified with heated and massaging seats, 360-degree cameras, wireless charging and Starlink internet connectivity. The option list is the same across combustion and electric builds, only the underlying running gear differs between the two commissions.

Lunaz will build just 25 examples in this run of Range Rover Classic commissions. The company says that ceiling is set by capacity at its Silverstone factory rather than by demand, a distinction it is keen to draw as it takes on more marques.

David Lorenz founded Lunaz in 2018, and the company has since grown from an electrification specialist into a broader restomod house working across Bentley, Aston Martin, Jaguar and Rolls-Royce alongside Range Rover. Its Silverstone workshop keeps cars in various stages of assembly and disassembly across all of those marques at once.

The original Range Rover Classic was built by Land Rover, whose model line we have covered as part of our coverage of style for the way its early boxy design became a template for the modern luxury SUV. Lunaz's conversions work directly from that shape rather than replacing it.

We have previously sampled Lunaz's Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Range Rover conversions and came away impressed by how an electric powertrain adds performance without erasing the character that made the original cars desirable in the first place, a balance Kermit and Nevada both aim to strike in different ways.

That balance is the point of Lunaz's wider business: taking cars already valued for their design and updating what is beneath the skin, whether that means a modern V8 swap or a full electric conversion, without changing what a buyer recognizes as a Range Rover Classic from the outside.

Kermit's conversion from a black-on-black Overfinch build into a Pop Art commission also shows how far a Lunaz project can move from a car's starting specification, while Nevada shows the same workshop working toward a quieter, more traditional result for daily use on a working ranch.

Lunaz has not said which of the 25 planned examples in this run are already spoken for, nor what a commission like Kermit or Nevada costs a client. Pricing and availability for further Range Rover Classic commissions are handled directly through the company rather than published.