Land Rover is purportedly cancelling plans for a pickup version of the new Defender:
https://www.motor1.com/news/370273/land-rover-defender-pickup-canceled/
In true, modern Land Rover bullshiteese, they give an explanation:
An unnamed, high-level insider from Jaguar Land Rover said the automaker canceled the variant from the future product plan, while speaking with Motoring from Australia. "Why would you buy a dual-cab ute when you see what you can put in the back of one of these – this is already a ute with a roof," the source said as an explanation for the decision.
With that logic, why the hell did they ever make a pickup version of the Defender? Why are people lining up for the Gladiator?
My guess the real reason is that they didn't want to spend the engineering hours it would take to figure out how to make the Defender's chassis do the things a pickup would do, especially in light of how many of them they would sell.
But it's also a concession to the Australian market that Land Rover doesn't really care about anything other than the posh demographic, as almost all the "outback" kinda people are buying utes and not SUVs.