Tim Pitt drives the new Land Rover Defender Octa, a bombastic V8-engined SUV that goes fast everywhere – including off-road.

Defender is already the official vehicle partner for Dakar this year and has supplied 20 SUVs to ferry race officials ... programme with its new rally-raid contender and that it will run the ...

The suspension is soft and bottoms out easily when off-roading. The bike is designed to look like a rally-raid machine, but the suspension is a letdown. Compression and rebound can be tweaked up ...

EVR Proto VX 101 Rally Raid Concept The pair will drive the latest and technically most advanced desert racer, theEVR Proto VX 101 Rally Raid Concept, powered by a LS7 Corvette Racing engine ...

Ever since 1948, Land Rovers have been clambering over rocks, wading across rivers and squelching through muddy ruts. The new Defender Octa is different. This steroidal SUV wasn’t born for ambling ...