A BMW-sourced V-8 gives the venerable Defender a whole lot of hustle.

Reinventing an icon is always a risky business. New Coke, the Apple III, Levi’s Type 1 jeans: All crashed and burned amid a mountain of marketing hype. So it’s perhaps understandable that JLR took ...

These days, buyers in search of a luxury SUV well-suited to life in a posh area are spoiled for choice. Rugged, cool, luxurious and even performance-oriented can all be combined in a way that wasn’t ...

I hate the term “bug-out.” I blame the lone episode of Doomsday Preppers I watched years ago, as every other word that came out of those people was bug-out this, bug-out that, and bug-out everything.

The Land Rover Defender Octa was airborne for what felt like an eternity, all four wheels spinning free above the rutted Baja-style course in Gateway, Colorado. When it landed—with the kind of ...

Peter earned a Bachelor of Archeology and Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and has since joined his love of driving and riding with storytelling. His voice is full of southern ...

If you see a Land Rover Defender 110 wearing a badge that features a black diamond within a circle: do not race it. This is the 2026 Land Rover Defender OCTA and it is unlike any Defender that came ...

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 ...

Land Rover has been synonymous with creating SUVs that are off-road capable, comfortable and expensive. One of its newest offerings, the Defender OCTA, is the most powerful Land Rover yet. I happened ...

Although Land Rover ended production of the original Defender back in 2016, that’s not to say that the brand has given up on its iconic boxy 4×4. Along with sourcing approved examples of heritage ...