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The car idles differently. It sits differently. The details, those start to emerge too. That little button on the steering ...

The Land Rover aesthetic has always been complemented by dogs, but this one feels built for them.

The Defender Octa is essentially a supercar for off-road adventure. The Land Rover origin story begins with a tale of basic machines. Ostensibly tractors with off-road capability courtesy of a ...

The Defender 110 OCTA is a wild, silly way to spend nearly $170k, but features like its huge V8 make it worth it.

If you’re running a covert war or a Russian crime syndicate, boy do I have the ride for you. I present the Land Rover Defender 110 OCTA Black. And black it is. The paint, the wheels and the leather ...

The latest Defender in Land Rover’s four-wheeled infantry is here – and it is quite something. Ever since it was announced last summer, there’s been an endless buzz around the Land Rover Defender OCTA ...

The Defender OCTA is an incredible machine, but it has its foibles.

Jaguar Land Rover has had a pretty mega history with slightly bonkers, special edition cars in the last couple of decades. See the Jaguar XKR-S GT, XE Project 8, F-Pace SVR, Range Rover Sport SVR… ...

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, ...

At GTEST, part of the German Car of the Year programme, the Defender OCTA looked like a dinosaur in the car park. Around it sat an increasingly familiar mix of EVs, plug-in hybrids and polished ...

Here it is, in all its glory: the Octa, Land Rover’s fastest, most powerful Defender ever. But if you ask its creator, Jamal Hameedi, as I did recently at the vehicle’s LA reveal, the impressive ...