The OCTA isn’t a baja jumper, but it’s our first pick for hardcore expeditions. Ask anyone, and it’s hard to argue that the ...

Wallpaper* takes a South African sojourn in the flagship Land Rover Defender OCTA, a steely machine that upgrades every facet ...

Video by Land Rover The Octa's interior is where it struggles most to justify its price tag. The basic Defender cabin has an unpretentious utilitarianism that suits it well. The Octa's dashboard ...

Then again, the 2025 Land Rover Defender 110 Octa—with its 626-hp twin-turbo V-8 and sophisticated hydraulic suspension—is no mere mudder. Jamal Hameedi, Jaguar Land Rover's Special Vehicle ...

Even in its standard guise the Defender is already extremely capable but the engineering and finishing on the Octa ...

I've watched the video of my flight in a prototype version of the Land Rover Defender Octa on a testing stage in France several times. Having hit a substantial berm at 60 mph, I can see there is ...

So Land Rover has decided to follow the money a ... of its brands to have its own high-performance derivative, with Octa being Defender's. The name comes from the octahedral shape of an ultra ...

With its 4.4-litre V8 and a 0-60mph time of 3.8 seconds, the Land Rover Defender OCTA is faster than it needs to be for the ...

as befits a machine set to take Land Rover back into the brutal Dakar rally. The Octa takes the Defender 110 body and, in a wholesale re-engineering job, upgrades almost everything bolted to the ...

To show off the Defender OCTA’s ability to tackle harsh terrain with maximum effort, JLR brought us to Cape Town. Beyond the variety of surfaces, Land Rover’s rich history in Africa justified ...

Both Octa and SV were developed by the same team working for Jaguar Land Rover's Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) division, with the ability to work on models from all four of what JLR calls its House ...