Land Rover competed in the 2026 Dakar Rally with Defender Dakar D7X-R race vehicles based on its OCTA model variant.

We live in an era of ridiculously overpowered off-road vehicles (not that we’re complaining). The Ford F-150 Raptor and Bronco Raptor. The Ram 1500 TRX. The Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk (RIP). Now, ...

Put aside your SUV cynicism. The Land Rover Defender Octa is a triumph, with 911 GT3 levels of engineering making it an ...

Land Rover has recently split the brand into three distinct sub-brands. There’s the posh Range Rover line, the more family-orientated Discovery duo, and of course the off-road ready Defender. Although ...

Land Rover’s Dakar Defender D7X-R is the wildest Defender ever built, and wealthy customers are already expressing their ...

Of course, the manufacturer, as befits its House of Brands strategy, would prefer you think of its victory purely in ...

Jaguar Land Rover, or JLR as it’s now known, is breaking into four sub-brands as part of its new corporate identity. Range Rover, Defender, Discovery, and Jaguar will become their own distinct brands ...

The Defender D7X-R is tackling the world’s most gruelling off-road race, and unlike many competition cars, this one has ...

Land Rover has toyed with special, limited-edition runs of what is now the Classic Defender since the truck was called just Defender and was yet to leave the market. The 2016 Defender Heritage Edition ...

The Land Rover Defender is already a formidable off-road machine straight off the showroom floor — but like a lot of modern Land Rovers, off-roading isn’t really the vehicle’s main mission. These days ...

It looks like Land Rover’s new rumored Defender mini-me is coming to fruition. Spy shots recently surfaced of a test mule running about, thanks to our friends at Britain’s AutoCar. The prototype was ...