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Jaguar Land Rover continues testing the Defender OCTA at the world's most grueling racetrack. Then again, what did you expect from JLR and the most powerful road-going Defender of all time? Coming ...

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, ...

There is absolutely no reason for the 2025 Land Rover Defender Octa to exist in this world. Of the few folks who actually have the $150,000 or so needed to purchase one, 0.0001% of them will actually ...

The most capable, most extreme Defender to ever come from the factory is here, and it’s called the 2025 Land Rover Defender Octa. Based on the 110 (that’s the four-door, medium-sized one), the ...

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, ...

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 ...

It’s fair to say that the Defender has been a runaway success for JLR. It’s hard to travel a stretch of road for any decent amount of time without seeing one of these high-riding models out and about, ...

Since its launch in 2019, the Defender has been a huge hit, said Top Gear Magazine, and Land Rover has a simple aim for its new Defender Octa: "to be the world's fastest off-roader" yet. Three years ...

What is being touted as the “toughest and most durable model in the Defender family,” the Defender OCTA, will be fully revealed to the public on July 3, and a select few a bit earlier. If the latest ...