he Defender Octa is the Jaguar Land Rover’s highest-performing off-roader ever built at the factory.

A couple of months after Land Rover confirmed that the Defender would compete in the 2026 Dakar Rally, the automaker has ...

The Defender is the best-selling member of the JLR family, and the one that has been steadily gaining in popularity for the ...

JLR is working on a rally raid vehicle based on the Defender Octa, and it's set to enter the 2026 World Rally Raid ...

2026 is going to be a busy year for the Land Rover Defender OCTA because the British carmaker has just confirmed its entry ...

That's because JLR now plans for each of its brands to have its own high-performance derivative, with Octa being Defender's. The name comes from the octahedral shape of an ultra-tough diamond ...

This motivated the British brand to choose the Land Rover Defender Octa to be its entry in the international rally competitions. Defender will run a two-vehicle entry of competition-spec Defenders ...

The race-prepped version of the Defender Octa will retain the road model’s D7X architecture. Land Rover will also use the standard model’s 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V8 from BMW. The Octa is ...

The current-generation Defender (L663) will not get an EV powertrain. The Defender EV will be based on the next-gen SUV, ...

I've watched the video of my flight in a prototype version of the Land Rover Defender Octa on a testing stage in France several times. Having hit a substantial berm at 60 mph, I can see there is ...

The twin-turbocharged off-roader is headed for Dakar and the FIA World Rally Raid Championship starting in 2026.