G o to YouTube and you'll find videos of Land Rover test drivers hooning prototype Defenders around the Nürburgring. It's wild to see a boxy SUV on knobby all-terrain tires squea

What’s this? The Land Rover Defender Octa’s mission statement is simple: to be the world’s fastest off-roader. But how do you define that? A Nürburgring lap time is only going to tell part of the story,

With 626 hp, the Octa is the most powerful Defender ever, but it is also the most capable. To understand the auto industry, always follow the money. When the current Land Rover Defender launched for 2020 it was targeting those in search of rugged,

The competition vehicles will utilise the same 4.4-litre twin-turbocharged V8 petrol engine as in the standard road car.

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 its extreme performance credentials in the world’s toughest off-road events.

Five years on sale and the Land Rover Defender continues to re-write the (entirely figurative) rulebook. Demand, far from decaying, continues to increase, with global sales now fast approaching 400,000 units.

Land Rover Defender Octa sets out to prove that 626 horsepower can make anything better. In creating the Octa, Land Rover relied on a little help from its friends. The Octa's engine is a BMW-sourced twin-turbo 4.

The Land Rover Defender OCTA is transforming the world of off-road performance, setting a new standard for durability, power, and capability in the most

The Octa is a phenomenally capable 4x4, and for Land Rover to have executed it by extending the already fathoms-wide breadth of the Defender’s capability, rather than narrowing or focusing it, is a very rare and singular tribute to the talents and determination of its engineers.