Wildcat

The Wildcat replaced the Tomcat in 1998, first as the Wildcat 100 on a tubular chassis of 100-inch wheelbase and from 2000 as the Wildcat 200, a new steel spaceframe of 106 inches with glassfibre panels. It kept Land Rover beam axles and offered Rover V8s of 4.0 to 5.0 litres — the TVR-tuned 5.0 was preferred — or 2.2 and 2.5-litre turbodiesels, and it was road-legal.

Bowler took a factory team to the Dakar with it from 2000, and by 2005 that team was second in size only to Mitsubishi's. Bowler sold the manufacturing rights to QT Services in December 2007, and QT's 500DKR became the basis of a military Wildcat marketed by Supacat from 2011.