Land Rover Defender OCTA review
AutoTrader Land Rover Defender OCTA review
Mad, bad and unashamedly excessive, the Defender OCTA is Land Rover unleashed and a properly guilty pleasure
The AutoTrader expert verdict:
Available new from £148,045
Powerful, pumped-up and unapologetic in its ambition to be the fastest, loudest and most extravagant Defender you can buy, this OCTA version could be accused of failing to read the room given the car industry’s wider attempts to embrace sustainability and a more environmentally responsible image. The OCTA meanwhile sticks two fingers up to all of that and just wants to be the meanest SUV on the block. Something it achieves with some style, the macho looks and blistering performance combined with formidable tech to make it as exciting on the road as off it. Clever enough to make an Mercedes G-Class look a bit archaic but tough enough to challenge the likes of an Ineos Grenadier in the rough, it makes one hell of a statement and is closer in spirit to a Huracan Sterrato, Porsche 911 Dakar or Ariel Nomad than it is regular 4x4s. Whether everyone will like what it has to say is another matter, but if you fancy a more restrained Defender you can read the review of the standard version here.
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