Having been on sale now for a full year, the Land Rover Defender Octa is getting its second special edition. The 2026 Defender Octa Black is exactly what it sounds like: a Defender Octa, but black.

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 ...

Along with giving the 2026 Defender its first facelift since the nameplate returned to the United States in 2020, Land Rover is also adding a new visual package for the iconic model. It's called the ...

Explore how the Land Rover Defender evolved from a rugged 1948 farm truck into a global icon of adventure, style, and utility ...

Michael Frank has been writing and editing car and motorcycle coverage for the past two decades. His outlets have included Forbes, Coolhunting, The Wall Street Journal, Car & Driver, Road & Track, The ...

The midsize Land Rover Defender line ran from 1983-2016 as a standard body-on-frame sport-utility vehicle, then was dropped from lineup. Now it’s back. Jaguar Land Rover, the new company that controls ...

Small revisions sharpen the Defender for 2026, but the charismatic supercharged V-8 is still the star feature.