Land Rover is proudly stating that the Defender Octa is “the fastest and most capable Defender ever made,” so it makes sense it will serve as the base for the racer. Not only

The Defender is the best-selling member of the JLR family, and the one that has been steadily gaining in popularity for the past five years—a rare occurrence in the auto industry, where models normally lose ground as they age.

With 626 hp, the Octa is the most powerful Defender ever, but it is also the most capable. 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,

While the electric luxury SUV market continues to grow with models from all sorts of different automakers, it seems an electric Land Rover Defender isn’t coming anytime soon.Land Rover’schief commercial officer Lennard Hoornik told Autocarmagazine that it’s simply too difficult to just stuff batteries into the current Defender’s platform,

What’s this? The Land Rover Defender Octa’s mission statement is simple: to be the world’s fastest off-roader. But how do you define that? A Nürburgring lap time is only going to tell part of the story,

Land Rover had shown the Discovery SVX in Frankfurt exactly two years earlier: a 525hp V8-powered, hydraulically-restrained vision of what the family-friendly SUV could be if you jettisoned some of the friendliness and fitted proper all-terrain tyres.

The Land Rover Defender OCTA is transforming the world of off-road performance, setting a new standard for durability, power, and capability in the most

Five years on sale and the Land Rover Defender continues to re-write the (entirely figurative) rulebook. Demand, far from decaying, continues to increase, with global sales now fast approaching 400,000 units.