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

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The redesigned Land Rover Defender reached American shores in the fateful and hateful year 2020, and despite rumors for years about a potential ...

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 ...

Video by Land Rover The Octa's interior is where it struggles most to justify its price tag. The basic Defender cabin has an unpretentious utilitarianism that suits it well. The Octa's dashboard ...

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 ...

flowing gravel tracks - one that belies the Defender’s size and its two-and-a-half-tonne kerbweight. Even better, in full-on OCTA mode, which Land Rover preserved for a few laps of a much ...

The Mercedes-AMG G 63 will no longer be the king of off-road power among luxury SUVs as Land Rover today announced its most potent and most expensive Defender ever. Named OCTA after the octahedron ...

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