There are diamond-tipped light clusters, an evocative two-tone ‘Gold Leaf’ colour scheme ... of 155mph and 0-60 in 3.8 seconds. The OCTA is also Defender's techiest car to date, designed ...

You can go to the Mercedes G-Class, long the gold standard in this “dirt-and-diamonds” segment ... (That is, if you can even get an allotment for one, which is no guarantee.) Land Rover’s Defender ...

ushering in the Defender OCTA. Taking its name from the octahedral shape of a diamond – both hard-wearing and desirable – the OCTA is a mutant, rally-raid spec Defender powered by a BMW-derived ...

Even in its standard guise the Defender is already extremely capable but the engineering and finishing on the Octa ...

What happens when you take an iconic off-roader and inject it with over 600 horsepower? You get the Defender OCTA, the most ...

You get the Defender OCTA, the most powerful and capable Defender ever. I traveled all the way to South Africa to put this beast to the test, and it did not disappoint.

With the shiny new Alpine A290 arriving on UK soil, we felt it was about time to gather the current hot hatch crowd to re-establish the pecking order. So, grab this latest issue of Top Gear ...