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Kahn Design

Name: Kahn Design
Address: Bradford, GB
Telephone: +441274749999

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Since 1998
We can create your own BESPOKE automotive brand - From Design through to Copyright©

09/11/2026

In 2012, every Range Rover Sport was black, silver or grey. We built one in orange.

The Vesuvius Edition was a complete colour programme, not a sticker kit. Vesuvius Orange ran through the bonnet, grille inserts and roof stripe, with 22-inch Kahn RS Black wheels underneath and diamond-quilted black leather with orange stitching inside. Every detail was drawn to look like it left the factory that way.

It stopped traffic, then it became a family: Evoque Vesuvius, Defender Vesuvius, and eventually a factory Range Rover in a similar spirit. We will let you draw your own conclusions.

Fourteen years on, we still get the calls. The new Range Rover Sport is lower, sleeker and more minimal, a clean canvas for bold colour. If the interest is genuine, the Vesuvius returns through Racing Green Automotive. No countdown clock. No fake scarcity.

Comment VESUVIUS if you would want one, and tell us the colour you would pair it with.

Brand: Kahn
Vehicle: Range Rover Sport Vesuvius
Legal: © Design by KAHN®

30/10/2026

Which vehicle wears the RS best? Pick the most unlikely one.

The KAHN RS, known to some as "The Cosworth" wheel, made its name on the Range Rover and the Defender. But it has never been confined to them. From the compact Fiat 500 to the Mercedes X-Class, the RS has found its way onto almost every vehicle we have given real attention to, and it has looked at home on all of them.

The reason is in the drawing. A 10-split V spoke design with continuous lines running from the centre to the rim, soft organic surfaces along the spoke edge and a purposeful, mechanical centre. It is a graphic that scales without losing its character, whether it sits on a city car or a full-size truck.

That versatility has kept it evolving. The RS DC added depth and concavity. The RS 3.0 pocketed the face for a more technical structure. The LD RS engraved the ten spokes beneath a full-face aero surface. The 1983 and the 1948 both trace their roots back to it. Different wheels, one origin.

Few designs earn a place across this many platforms. The RS is one of them.

Brand: KAHN Design
Wheel: RS (AKA The Cosworth)
Legal: © Design by KAHN®

26/10/2026

Why does the 1948 look the way it does? The answer starts with a Cosworth.

The 1948 traces back to the original Cosworth wheel from the mid 2000s Range Rover Sport Cosworth, the design now known as the RS. It was resized to 18" for our classic Defender offering, but the classic’s 5x165 PCD, far larger than the L320 and L322 and the models that followed, set hard limits on what the design could do.

That pressure produced the 1983. The RS’s ten spokes were paired into a five-spoke inner design, with the original ten-spoke pattern kept on the outer rim edge. It remains one of our most popular wheels.

Then demand arrived for a 16" built for off-road use. Reducing the 1983 again meant the PCD now took up almost half the face of the wheel. The design could no longer sit around the PCD. It had to be built around it. The joined five-spoke centre of the 1983 became the focal point and was carried out to the rim, making the 1948 completely unique.

Little of the RS remains visible in the final wheel, but every line of it traces back there.

Shaped by the constraint, not despite it.

Watch this space.

Brand: KAHN Design
Wheel: 1948, 16"
Legal: © Design by KAHN®

23/10/2026

Ten years on, does the Vengeance still look like nothing else?

Revealed at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2016, the Vengeance was coachbuilt in the oldest sense of the word, a DB9 completely re-bodied by hand. Designed in Yorkshire, built in the Midlands, with new hammer-formed aluminium wings, door skins and roof formed over wooden bucks and English wheels. Each car took eight to nine months to complete.

The shape took eighteen months to resolve. The early Vanquish’s bubble-like haunches and the V600 Vantage wide bodies set the starting point, pulled wider and lower, with a power bulge running from the bonnet across the roof to the widened C-pillars. A machined billet aluminium grille, gilled wing vents, a polished chrome halo and DB7 Zagato-inspired round tail lights anchor it in its lineage, all sitting on two-tone Roulette wheels, 20-inch front and 21-inch rear.

Underneath, the factory structure and the naturally aspirated 6-litre V12 were left exactly as Aston Martin made them. It was never about extra power. It was about what a V12 sounds like when nothing stands between it and the road.

“We kept every aspect of the underlying car because it was already right, and spent our time on the shape,” says Afzal Kahn.

The car that began KAHN’s return to British coachbuilding.

Coupe or Volante, which Vengeance would you have specified?

Brand: KAHN Design
Vehicle: KAHN® Vengeance
Legal: © Design by KAHN®

21/10/2026

Ten years on, was the 6x6 a good idea or just a loud one?

A decade ago, the Flying Huntsman 6x6 Pickup made its international debut at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, only weeks after the last classic Defender left the line at Solihull. While the mood was one of farewell, our team saw a platform with plenty of life left in it.

The Defender was stretched by 880mm, widened by 150mm and given a third axle, creating a double-cab, five-seat pickup with genuine six-wheel drive. Over forty designers, engineers and craftsmen built it in Britain, with hammer-formed aluminium bodywork and bespoke composite wide wings. A 6.2 litre LS3 V8 delivers 430hp. The brief was presence over practicality, and it has aged well.

The X-Lander grille gave a tall vehicle a wider, lower stance. Volcanic Rock paint still reads as serious rather than showy. The 1945 Retro Alloys with their red pinstripe and the twin crosshair exhaust carry the military character without tipping into costume.

Ten were planned. Ten were built. As far as we know, all ten remain with their owners, one in Afzal Kahn’s personal collection.

“Ten years is long enough to know whether something was a good idea or just a loud one,” says Afzal Kahn. “The 6x6 has held its ground.”

Nothing in the current line-up comes close to it in scale, presence or mechanical ambition.

Brand: Flying Huntsman
Vehicle: 6x6 Pickup
Legal: © Design by KAHN®

14/10/2026

Some studios chase horsepower. We have a long obsession with the roof.

The new Project Kahn Universal Electric Sliding Glass Sunroof brings an open-air option to vehicles that left the factory without one. Finished in dark tinted glass, it sits flush with the roofline. Closed, it reads as a clean, uninterrupted glass roof. Open, the whole cabin changes.

It builds on the fixed glass roof we first created for the classic Defender, now modernised with an electric sliding mechanism and extended well beyond a single platform. The brief stayed the same: visual restraint. No busy trim, no contrasting frames, nothing that gives a retrofit away. A sunroof should read as part of the car, not something added to it.

It continues a thread that runs through the archive. The original Classic Defender panoramic roof, which this unit now replaces. The Flying Huntsman 6x6 civilian, with its double roof. The Jeep Wrangler Summit, our latest panoramic offering. Each one answers the same question, how much sky can a vehicle carry without losing its character.

Supplied as a complete assembly with frame, tinted glass, electric mechanism, wiring and control switch, designed to suit a broad range of SUVs and saloons, including vehicles in the Chelsea Truck Company catalogue. Professional fitting recommended.

Brand: KAHN Design
Product: Sliding Glass Sunroof
Legal: © Design by KAHN®

02/10/2026

Land Rover is still working on their facelift. Ours is already finished.

This Defender 90 wears the mesh grille, facelift headlights and a cabin Land Rover has never offered, remastered by Chelsea Truck Company in Porsche Paint-to-Sample Brewster Green and Old English Tan.

The mesh grille is not a new idea, it is the original one, first worn by the Series I. Chelsea Truck Company brought it back as a stainless steel mesh in an aluminium surround for the classic Defender, and the L663 is the third chapter, surfaced in Autodesk Alias and engineered to Tier 1 OEM standards with one brief, look factory.

The car is repainted throughout in Brewster Green, a modern take on the original Series I palette, with colour-coded side vents, a gloss black hard spare wheel cover carrying the Heritage designation graphic, and 9.5x22" Mondial forged alloy wheels in satin black, one of Chelsea Truck Company's earliest and most recognised designs. Forged for lightness, satin for restraint.

Inside, Old English Tan 3D modular leather runs across the dashboard, door tops, armrests, transmission tunnel, centre cubbybox and steering wheel centre, a quiet homage to the simplicity of the original Series I cabin.

"The Defender doesn't need reinventing, it needs remembering," says Afzal Kahn.

Brand: Chelsea Truck Company
Vehicle: Defender 90, Heritage Remastered
Legal: © Design by KAHN®

25/09/2026

The Macan just found a category it never occupied before.

Kahn Design unveils the Porsche Macan Dakar Concept, a new direction for its expanding Macan programme, revealed ahead of a production version expected in early 2027. The performance world has built a real appetite for cars that go fast on any surface, led by the 911 Dakar, the Sterrato and the Ranger Raptor. This is Kahn Design's answer for the Macan.

The concept sits on a 30mm suspension lift with widened arches, protective bodywork and 20-inch Hammerhead wheels in satin black with a polished lip, wrapped in all terrain tyres. An 18-inch fitment is also offered for owners planning to spend real time off road. Silver matte skid plates, a front A-bar and a full-length load-rated roof rack complete the protection, all finished in Kahn Design's textured Volcanic Raptor paint.

The details tie back to Porsche's own history rather than looking outward. A body-colour ducktail spoiler nods to the 911 Carrera RS 2.7, while the colour story translates the Paris-Dakar 959 palette into a modern application, cobalt blue inside, orange through the functional hardware, and Pure White as the base colour, chosen deliberately as the ideal canvas for a rally-inspired livery down the line. Inside, Kahn Design's Cobalt Tartan package pairs woven tartan with Black Nappa leather, considered cabin, capable exterior.

"This is a car I wanted to exist, built the way I'd want to use it myself," says Afzal Kahn.

Available to view now, further details on request.

Brand: KAHN Design
Vehicle: Porsche Macan Dakar Concept
Legal: © Design by KAHN®

18/09/2026

Two icons, one wheel, does RS-6 do both justice?

The new RS-6 joins the KAHN | FORGED collection, and unlike recent additions such as RSX, it does not draw from a single design. RS-6 combines two of the catalogue's most recognised wheels into one.

Huntsman gives it presence. Its solid centre face and six windows set at the outer edge, arranged in two sets of three, carry the same full face weight that made the classic Defender wheel unmistakable. Look closer and Type 33 reveals itself, a hidden three-spoke graphic worked into the surface through deliberate shifts in weighting, thicker between the windows, thinner above and below, the same tension between mass and lightness that defines the original.

At the centre sits the RSX Dip, an angular, stepped profile that drops away to the PCD across sharp, distinct levels. On RSX2 it is one detail among several. Here, it is the main event.

The six windows still do their job, drawing air across the brakes, finished with radial grooves pulled from sketches on the studio's cutting room floor that never made it to production, until now.

Brand: KAHN|FORGED
Wheel: RS-6 Forged
Legal: © Design by KAHN®

17/09/2026

Did we do the Type 57 justice in 18"?

The Type 57 was designed exclusively for the L663 Defender, offered in 22" and 23". It was never built for the classic Defender, until a client asked us to match his classic to his L663, wheel for wheel.

The brief brought two real problems. The classic Defender runs a 5x165 PCD, far larger than anything the 5x120 the original was built around, and 22" or 23" was never going to fit. The answer was an 18" Type 57, hand-engineered to solve both. Small enough to keep the classic's off-road ability closer to a 16", large enough to hold the presence of a 20".

The PCD was moved into the pentagon window area of the face, one the more notible of many changes needed to keep the original graphic reading exactly as it should. Finished in satin black, forged, and built to the same detail as the original design it was drawn from.

This is what a custom order looks like. We scale any wheel design to any vehicle, on every platform we work with, and beyond. One-off commissions, hand-engineered from scratch.

Enquire directly to start yours.

Brand: KAHN Design
Wheel: Type 57 Wheel, 18" Custom Commission
Legal: © Design by KAHN®

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Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm

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http://www.projectkahn.com/

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