The new Defender OCTA is the toughest, most capable and most luxurious model in the unstoppable 4x4 family for the adventure, taking the capability of Defender 110 to an unparalleled level. Powered by ...

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 Land Rover Defender Octa in South Africa. Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC I’ve had a long relationship with Land Rover. I learned to drive in old ones. I used lightweight, desert-specification, ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The barren African landscape, darted far more frequently by sharp rocks marking cliff edges on a one-and-a-half-lane-wide ...

From the May/June 2026 issue of Car and Driver. For the sake of safety and fun, adding speed to an SUV should be more than just throwing a big engine under the hood. Fortunately, the first Land Rover ...

In the automotive hierarchy, there is a distinct difference between a vehicle that is "capable" and one that is "dominant." For decades, Land Rover has comfortably occupied the former category, ...

The scheduling gods have a sense of irony, it seems. How else to describe Land Rover's most thunderous Defender arriving on my driveway in a week where gas prices threaten to challenge historic highs ...

You could easily make a case against the 2026 Land Rover Defender Octa as the year’s best SUV. After all, dozens of domestic and foreign SUVs offer a phenomenal ownership experience. But this is an ...

Reinventing an icon is always a risky business. New Coke, the Apple III, Levi’s Type 1 jeans: All crashed and burned amid a mountain of marketing hype. So it’s perhaps understandable that JLR took ...