With a range of mechanical upgrades over a standard Defender, the Octa is as extreme as this off-roader gets. Jack Evans tries it in the UK.

The new Defender OCTA is the toughest, most capable and most luxurious model in the unstoppable 4x4 family for the adventure, taking the capability of Defender 110 to an unparalleled level. Powered by ...

After a somewhat confusing and dramatic subtle brand shifting within the Jaguar Land Rover conglomerate of automakers, where Jaguar, Land Rover, Range Rover, and Defender now operate with some level ...

The Land Rover Defender has always stood for rugged performance and timeless capability. In 2025, it takes on a new identity as “the rarest Defender ever built,” the OCTA Edition One, now armored by ...

The barren African landscape, darted far more frequently by sharp rocks marking cliff edges on a one-and-a-half-lane-wide road than people or animals, may, on the surface, be a weird place to see the ...

The re-birth of the legendary Land Rover Defender in 2019 felt like one of those seminal moments in an automaker's history; an iconic silhouette brought back with modern powertrains and luxury ...

The Land Rover Defender OCTA packs a 4.4-liter turbocharged V8 under its hood that makes 626 hp and 553 lb-ft of torque. This trail-ready SUV will start at $153,475, with the first-run Edition One ...

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 ...

Many things disrupt a human being's natural sense of time. We all remember the grinding monotony of the seemingly endless wait for the bell to ring at the end of a dull school lesson, and many who ...

The British automaker celebrates America's Independence Day in a different way: it proposes the Defender OCTA Black for anyone who loves monochrome and menacing luxury SUVs. Follow us: Just recently, ...

You could easily make a case against the 2026 Land Rover Defender Octa as the year’s best SUV. After all, dozens of domestic and foreign SUVs offer a phenomenal ownership experience. But this is an ...