We may earn a commission from links on this page. The redesigned Land Rover Defender reached American shores in the fateful and hateful year 2020, and despite rumors for years about a potential ...

The hugely successful unibody Defender isn't going electric anytime soon. According to Lennard Hoornik, the chief commercial officer at Jaguar Land Rover ... Jag's good ol' AJ-V8 engine and ...

So Land Rover has decided to follow the money a little further. If richer customers wanted to pay for the Defender V8, why not create ... cutest Defender 90 two-door. Both because the 110 already ...

Empowered by the Defender’s success and imbued with confidence that it’s best-seller can compete at the sharp end of the SUV market, Land Rover has given its all-rounder ... a BMW-derived 4.4-litre ...

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

Five years on sale and the Land Rover Defender continues ... You can’t currently buy a core Defender 110 with a V8 engine (the 90 and 130 can still be had with the old 5.0-litre V8 supercharged ...

It's also the first modern Land Rover to come on factory-fitted all ... won’t currently package within the shortened chassis of a Defender 90 - which helps to explain why the Octa can only ...

Go to YouTube and you'll find videos of Land ... Defender V8 has a 518-hp supercharged 5.0-liter, the Octa has a BMW-sourced twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8 (another piece shared with the Range Rover ...

Revisions don't extend to the interior or exterior, or the discontinuation - for the moment - of the 5.0-litre supercharged V8 engine.

2026 is going to be a busy year for the Defender OCTA because ... No word on whether Land Rover plans to modify the 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8, but given it already produces 626bhp and accelerates ...

The race-prepped version of the Defender Octa will retain the road model’s D7X architecture. Land Rover will also use the standard model’s 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V8 from BMW. The Octa is ...