Land Rover's Defender has been a familiar sight in the Dakar Rally for many years, but the British brand has never before lined up with a full factory team. That will change in 2026: the Defender will ...

It's not easy vying for the top spot when you're the new kid in town, debuting three teams in the newly revamped Dakar Rally Stock class in Saudi Arabia. Defender, part of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), is ...

Land Rover is taking the Defender Octa racing in the desert, and the rigs it built look pretty awesome. Three teams running specially prepared Defender Dakar D7X-Rs will be competing in next year's ...

It's been almost a year since Land Rover confirmed that it is, in fact, headed to the Dakar Rally. Now, the iconic SUV builder has finally given us an official reveal of its Defender-based rally car, ...

EVERY armchair motoring enthusiast knows manufacturers enter rallies and endurance events partly for marketing exposure. But competition also serves a deeper purpose: testing engineering, durability ...

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 Sahara ...

Defender completes first rally-raid test in Morocco with new D7X‑R prototype Dakar legend Stéphane Peterhansel and rising star Rokas Baciuška join the team The production-based D7X‑R will debut at the ...

I don't know which of these two bits of news gets me more excited: the debut of the Defender D7X‑R, the most capable production version of this SUV ever made, in this year's edition of the Dakar Rally ...

The 2026 running of the Dakar Rally is coming up quick, with racing in the Saudi Arabian desert kicking off on January 3. That's just over a month away, and it looks like Land Rover is serious about ...