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.

The twin-turbocharged off-roader is headed for Dakar and the FIA World Rally Raid Championship starting in 2026. With 626 horsepower under the hood, the Land Rover Defender Octa is plenty fast.

Moreover, Land Rover will be the official Dakar car partner from 2025, supplying a fleet of support vehicles for officials and VIP media This special Defender was built at the request of a ...

A dune bashing, quasi Dakar rally raider disguised as a long distance family hauler. A rock crawler that can also drift with mindless abandon. Celebratory, too. With the Land Rover name now parked ...

Alfardan Premier Motors Co., the exclusive importer of Land Rover in Qatar ... boasts a talented array of racers with four-time Dakar Rally winner Coma, up and coming youngster Sam Sunderland ...

Land Rover’s entry into the Dakar, with the Octa set to be the racer ... Whether on French rally trails or climbing up the side of a Scottish mountain, the Octa looks like its on special ...

This is a car JLR has made because it can. It will also form the basis for Land Rover’s works entry into next year’s World Rally-Raid Championship, which includes the legendary Dakar Rally, showing ...

Land Rover This monster is destined to race in next year’s new “production” category of the Saudi Arabian version of the infamous Dakar Rally, which used to traverse the Sahara Desert. In such events, ...