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

The Land Rover Defender Octa is a docile family vehicle that transforms into a raging rally rider. What it lacks in speed, it ...

Defender OCTA – the performance hero of the unstoppable Defender family – will form the basis of Defender’s Dakar and FIA World Rally Raid Championship competition challenger from 2026, showcasing its ...

2026 is going to be a busy year for the Land Rover Defender OCTA because the British carmaker has just confirmed its entry into the World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC), beginning with the Dakar Rally ...

Remember when Land Rover unleashed the Defender OCTA last year? Billed as the most powerful version of the Defender yet, this go-anywhere SUV comes with a 4.4L twin-turbo V8 that pushes 635 PS and ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...