Land Rover was able to fit a BMW engine to a sporty Defender in the South African market. How did this come about and what was its story?

Check out our new 2025 video by editor Ben Miller, who’s been living with a Land Rover Defender V8 for the past 3000 miles. To look at, the V8 isn’t too different from the standard Defender.

After racing shifter karts, riding dirt bikes, and doing track days in cars, I thought sitting on a snowmobile and cruising around Montana would be cool and casual. Cool, yes—cold, really.

Is the Range Rover Sport a good car ... respectively. The 4.4-litre V8 petrol engine found in the P530 provides a whopping 523bhp and a 0-62mph sprint time of 4.3 seconds.

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s report that Hemi production is slated to restart later this year, MoparInsiders is now claiming that we could see the V8 return to the Dodge Charger for the 2026 ...

Stuffing a 4.7-liter V8 into a small city car makes absolutely no sense, but Aston Martin did it anyway, and we can't help but stand up and applaud. If you never heard about the Aston Martin ...

The Ford Mustang brings 500 horsepower (372 kW) and 418 lb-ft (566 Nm) of torque to the table from its naturally-aspirated, Gen-5 5.0-liter Coyote V8 engine. It tips the scales at 4,016 pounds ...

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The Discovery 5 is the biggest, most luxurious, most off-road handy Land Rover money can buy. It’s a true automotive Swiss Army knife, capable of taking seven full-grown humans further up a ...

So here we are. This one’s naturally packing a lot more power from its supercharged 5.0-litre V8 engine courtesy of some new software. Arden has also modified the supercharger drive for more ...

On the other hand, the Land Rover Defender is on sale in multiple powertrain options. These include a massive 5.0-litre supercharged engine which generates a massive 518 hp and 625 Nm, a 4.4-litre ...