A couple of months after Land Rover confirmed that the Defender would compete in the 2026 Dakar Rally, the automaker has revealed the racing model will be based on the flagship Defender Octa.

JLR has announced that the Land Rover Defender will race at the Dakar in 2026. Billed as a full works effort – the first of its kind for the brand – entrance into the race is intended to prove ...

Land Rover will be the official Dakar car partner from 2025, supplying a fleet of support vehicles for officials and VIP media We don’t know whether this is a rally car, or if Audi is crazy ...

The Octa is the biggest, baddest version of the Defender yet – conquering the South African wilderness should be a walk in ...

Take one look at the Defender OCTA and you know it means business. Its flared arches protrude aggressively from its squared ...

To the Scottish Borders, then, where Land Rover has mapped out a route on rollicking ... like the rugged Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato or Porsche 911 Dakar, this Defender’s broader spread of ...