TWO DECADES OF EXPERIENCE

Charles became an agent for a small range of power upgrades for all Land Rover vehicles.

Started attending trade shows selling tuning products and packages under the name Twisted Performance.

Development is in full swing. Twisted-developed TD5 exhaust systems are produced and the company is being run out of Charles’ garden shed.

Built in Thirsk, our first Twisted black TD5 90 which caught the eye of Land Rover Owner Magazine who became the first publication to test drive a Twisted Defender on Rockingham Raceway.

Worldwide product distribution & first 110 double-cab pickup Demonstrator is built.

The first photographed editorial of a full Twisted Defender conversion is published. One customer's desire to have the best 110 possible showed our founder Charles, the demand for customer involved creations really was there.

2006 saw us build our first full 90 build for a customer with matching Fuel Bowser. Remarkably we saw this build again in 2018 when the owner opted to replace the TD5 engine with an LS3 V8. Quite a monster!

Charles leaves the family business to focus on Twisted full-time. Our TD5 90 took on the Bowler V8 at the Peterborough Speedway.

Our order of 240, last off the line, delivery mileage Defender begin to arrive.

T40, T40S, T60 & T80 models are created to cover all spec options for Defender. We also moved to our current state-of-the-art 12,000 sq.ft HQ in Thirsk.

Our first LS-powered V8 is created for the upcoming Gumball Rally, boasting 480bhp. Based on the TD5 90 we also launched our Red Edition and Retro Editions.

Awareness continued to spread and a 2.4 ‘61 plated Camo 90 was built and distributed to Malaysia. 2011 also saw the launch of the French Edition.

2010 saw the rebrand to simply “Twisted” and the slogan changed to “Think the Unthinkable”.

Our Demo took a trip to Germany’s Nurburgring. Began attending more events to highlight the development of our own products. Including drag racing at Santa Pod and the Worlds fastest Land Rover Event at Bruntingthorpe.

We open our first 2500sq.ft workshop in Thirsk. Three matching 110’s built for a Relentless Energy campaign for Coca-Cola.

We produced 20 classic Twisted Defender, all produced to the same specifications along with the development of our own Classic Twisted Wheels .

We took 20 customers and their Twisted Defender on a 4-day-trip taking in the Yorkshire scenery and driving roads. After high demand for our Classic Series I, we introduced the Classic Series II.

We unveiled our next generation of Twisted Originals™ made up of the Series IIA, Lightweight, Series III and Stage One V8 all giving a nod to their historic namesakes and the foundations upon which Twisted was built.

With Covid bringing the automotive world to a standstill it was the first pause in Twisted production since 2003. Thankfully when re-opened we went from strength to strength and had to increase the workforce significantly to keep up with demand.

We officially open The Old Cinema. our new site in Thirsk. Having outgrown the factory the Cinema provides us a huge showroom space along with our Box Office Café, boutique gift shop and events space where we have our fully licenced Anti-Roll Bar.

After 18 months in development, we launched a new pair of petrol powertrains: TV8, our 6.2l V8 LT1 conversion and TVS, our 2.3l 4 cylinder turbo. Both were incredibly well received at our launch event held in London..

For the first time since 2009, we ventured into a vehicle other than Defender. A

Suzuki Jimny by Twisted was launched, adding to our anti-ordinary offering.