When Land Rover's most powerful Defender meets sky-high gas prices, existential crisis ensues.

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, ...

The Land Rover Defender has always stood for rugged performance and timeless capability. In 2025, it takes on a new identity as “the rarest Defender ever built,” the OCTA Edition One, now armored by ...

The barren African landscape, darted far more frequently by sharp rocks marking cliff edges on a one-and-a-half-lane-wide road than people or animals, may, on the surface, be a weird place to see the ...

In the automotive hierarchy, there is a distinct difference between a vehicle that is "capable" and one that is "dominant." For decades, Land Rover has comfortably occupied the former category, ...

You could easily make a case against the 2026 Land Rover Defender Octa as the year’s best SUV. After all, dozens of domestic and foreign SUVs offer a phenomenal ownership experience. But this is an ...

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 ...

The British automaker celebrates America's Independence Day in a different way: it proposes the Defender OCTA Black for anyone who loves monochrome and menacing luxury SUVs. Just recently, Land Rover ...