Most Octas defenders will join a large group of cars. You may also expect to some extent when you top this version 160,000 pounds, which, on its surface, is a completely appropriate proposal. But it seems that more people will not try to run this as their only car. I think it would be amazing.
You can thank the rich development process for this. Here’s a large 4 x 4 that must prove itself not only on the reasons for more stringent proof than usual to gain their rough roads, but about the “episode” to characterize the path of the path. It will be ridiculous if Porsche also puts the development of its car in GT via a river or above the sand dunes, but here, the result is not only the fastest Land Rover factory yet – through a long shot – but also the most prominent.
Fortunately, one of the men behind it, a patchy robe, is really one of us. He has spent 15 years in dealing with Land Rovers and often spending the largest part of the weekly course. Nevertheless, he still has a space in his life for the self -built and seized BMW 130i series. Two two cars whose joint weight still sits under OCTA claimed 2,585 kg … the mind, NIC C has already paid in South Africa and returning home fond. Now it is a league around the least sparkling Scottish border but still amazing, and therefore some decorated and distinctive British roads.
Many of them may assume that it is very small for a car like this. UP Front is 635 hp, 553 pounds with a capacity of 4.4 liters of TWIN-Turbo V8, which is strong enough to convert Levichan five miles to 60 miles per hour in less than four seconds. Ensure that this energy can be conveyed to performance with a little more than a fully more Smorgasbord of structure technology, and prominent paths (which requires steroid dynamic system, which is 68 mm in length) and overwhelming DYNAMICS system, semi -incomplete, common with Range Rover SV. Although we liked to try the car for its most biased choice in Michelin, JLR chose to stick to goodyear Wrangler clips due to how Gnarny gets off -road shows.
Surprise is that it is capable of the road. They are limited to 100 miles per hour, and its polishing is not perfect and may give up a second or two milliliters in the urgency of communication while cutting to the turns. But GRIP can be predicted and the fastest guidance in Octa – 13.7: 1 versus 17: 1 of its basic car – looks like a great leap in the right direction of the defender as a driver. It is flying eight in the corners precisely with no need to direct the heaviest quadruple wheels, and although its additional passion is immersed with a narration of nervous energy on these tires (which I think Michelin will return abroad), it will be good to see this as an option for the minimum defenders in the coming years. NERDY, but it will make them a more beautiful companion for those who love driving. Although it exaggerates the size of the steering wheel that now looks like a serving dish in your hands, its scale is not identical to a new careful.
You can get a set of driving modes to choose from a compliment of the phone call or an enlarged diamond on the wheel (its logo is skillfully hinted in the origins of the eight name). Auto helps this WAFT like any other defender, although the driving set is silent although it is still with the Burble Mellifluous of V8 at low pressure. Dynamic tightening and increasing things and opening the exhaust. OCTA mode is the place where fun includes, with the ability to send 85 percent of the power to the rear axle and a more relaxed tune than ABS to allow more off -road.
Even on off -road, it increases the car’s reaction and proves that it is useful to bring 635 hp and a fierce preposition to focus on reasonable daily speeds. It is important to ignore drilling or ignore sudden declines or pressure and feel prepared and prepared to respond to the lined speed. These are the stages of the Jim Clark Rally at times. In such narrow corridors, you always feel huge and medium-width more than two meters with elephant ear mirrors-but you can pay a safety in knowledge that you can easily get to traffic on mono-track surfaces thanks to its available frames and its massive ground clearance.
You may feel that you are also known to do people, given the huge size and aggression of the thing. Although I believe that its external upgrades are more deviating towards the “hidden” group of the nose “and with the sale of defenders by the load at the present time – 110,000 worldwide in 2024 alone, making it comfortable comfortably – the familiarity may suffocate the contempt.
But despite his success in Makeover, this still feels like a lot of cars wandering on the road and closed training courses are undoubtedly the best place to completely cancel Uncork. Fortunately, Land Rover agrees, and although its described circle is not an opportunity to indulge in the newly exciting back torque with luxurious slides, it is a major opportunity to taste what this 6D comment can absorb.
A preliminary guide after Diesel Defender 110 power of 553 pounds of OCTA; While the driver in the front occupies the low -range box to climb the sharp slopes, their useful voice on the radio tells me that I can survive high -term and simply the skin. Later, with diesel and the highest coach with steel stomach in Octa beside me, encouraged me to maintain a full fuel pedal on hundreds of meters of bumps, spirit and clay, and the eight house across this type of surfaces that would be the most modest SUV beach. A small surprise there will be one in Dakar next year – I can’t think about any better stadium for that.
It seems fair to assume that many of these things will be limited to hiding around urban areas such as Mercedes-AMG G63, which they intend to sell. But the tangible depth of its engineering is clearly evident, and the snoring around the mass is injustice to the development under its skin. Stylish details only touch the impression. What3Words included in Nating Sat NAV for more accurate adventures outside the network and red lighting of the glass tips that its glory made when I involve the Octa position in making this car feel the comprehensive sense. Even if the bells of this very small press car indicate that more surface areas of construction may remain absolute. And who wants to imagine the cost of reform (or replacement) of the 6D dynamics system for many years and floundering on rough roads?
Primary buyers may find such disturbing concerns. Even “OCTA TRIM” enjoys more than twice the price of the basic diesel, although less than 1,000 UK buyers in their first year of production will remain reasonable in the sale line. But the fuel bills and its transcendence, glory be to Him, aside, does not require the same settlement on stock cannons as the GT3 RS does next to Carrera. There are still five seats and large shoes. Select more biased rubber for the airport, and this may lead to putting everything you need in the car-even if most of it does not give it this opportunity.
Specifications 2025 Land Rover Defender Octa
engine: 4,395CC Twin-Turbo V8, moderate hybrid
Transition: 8 car speeds, four -wheel drive
Power (HP): 635
Performing torque (l Libh): 553 (590 with release control)
0-62 miles per hour: 4.0 seconds (3.8 with release control)
top gear: 155 miles per hour (all terrain frames are limited to 100 miles per hour)
weight: 2,585 kg (European Union)
Mila in the gallon: 21.0 (WLTP)
CO2: 304g/km (wltp)
price: The base of 145300 pounds, 160,800 pounds for the first version