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 ...

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 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 ...

We have said that we will make an electric production model for each of our new brands [Range Rover, Defender, Discovery ... Two Land Rover Defender Octas will compete in the 2026 World Rally ...

the OCTA is poised to dominate the rally-raid scene, cementing its status as the ultimate off-road performance machine. The Land Rover Defender OCTA is a masterpiece of automotive engineering ...

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 ...