The Land Rover Defender has long been a symbol of rugged capability, but the new Defender OCTA takes that reputation to ...

A couple of months after Land Rover confirmed that the Defender would compete in the 2026 Dakar Rally, the automaker has revealed the racing model will be based on the flagship Defender Octa. It will ...

Defender Rally started its Dakar story with an immediate result, taking a debut victory in the production-based Stock ...

Defender isn’t contesting the 2026 Dakar Rally just for fun. The brand is hoping to bolster its off-road credentials and pick up a few tricks which will help future road going Defender SUVs become ...

The barren African landscape, darted far more frequently by sharp rocks marking cliff edges on a one-and-a-half-lane-wide road than people or animals, may, on the surface, be a weird place to see the ...

Land Rover competed in the 2026 Dakar Rally with Defender Dakar D7X-R race vehicles based on its OCTA model variant and won.

The Land Rover Defender has always stood for rugged performance and timeless capability. In 2025, it takes on a new identity as “the rarest Defender ever built,” the OCTA Edition One, now armored by ...

The Defender Octa-based D7X‑R managed to drive three Defender team to the 1st, 2nd, and 4th place at the end of this year's ...

The 626-hp Defender Octa will serve as the basis for a new Defender rally raid vehicle being developed by a JLR works team for the 2026 World Rally-Raid Championship, the premier event for which is ...

Of course, the manufacturer, as befits its House of Brands strategy, would prefer you think of its victory purely in ...

To understand the auto industry, always follow the money. When the current Land Rover Defender launched for 2020 it was targeting those in search of rugged, stylish performance—virtues that the brand ...