Dakar winner Stephane Peterhansel will run one of the production-based Defenders in the 2026 World Rally Raid Championship.

Defender completes first rally-raid test in Morocco with new D7X‑R prototype Dakar legend Stéphane Peterhansel and rising star Rokas Baciuška join the team The production-based D7X‑R will ...

Two weeks ago, Land Rover announced that two Defender SUVs ... “with a three-car entry in the championship’s halo event, the Dakar Rally.” Badass! Meanwhile, Defender would also be supplying ...

Land Rover is taking the fight to the dunes with the reveal of its new Defender Dakar D7X-R, a prototype built to conquer the ...

Road & Track has reached out to Jaguar Land Rover North America for additional details about the Defender rally car and its Dakar partnership; we'll update this story if we gear back. A New York ...

Land Rover is going racing next year at the Dakar Rally, and now it has a prototype Defender in testing to prove it. The brand’s Defender Dakar D7X‑R prototype began testing recently in the ...

Land Rover is set to make its Dakar Rally debut in January 2026. Before the inaugural race, the brand had signed the fourteen-time Dakar Rally winner Stéphane Peterhansel, who will join the ...

With the Dakar Rally just weeks away from kicking off the 47th edition of the famed event, held for the sixth time in Saudi Arabia, Land Rover announces its intentions to compete head-to-head with ...

We’ll find out next January when Land Rover has a crack at the legendary Dakar Rally with the Defender Dakar D7X‑R. Unlike Audi and Toyota, who have won the last four Dakar titles between them ...

Land Rover has confirmed the first Defender works team for the famous Dakar Rally. The company will compete at the 2026 event, but will share more information in 2025. The Defender brand will also ...