It will compete in the World Rally-Raid Championship’s ‘Stock’ class
2026 is going to be a busy year for the Land Rover Defender OCTA because the British carmaker has just confirmed its entry into the World Rally-Raid Championship , beginning with the Dakar Rally in January. Talk about tough initiations.
It’s being entered into the ‘Stock’ class, which is seeing big regulation changes for next year to focus more strictly on how durable a production car is right out of the manufacturing plant. The ideal test for what Land Rover calls its “most dynamically accomplished Defender ever,” then.
No word on whether Land Rover plans to modify the 4.4-liter twin-turbo V8, but given it already produces 626hp and accelerates to 100kph in under 4sec, it’s unlikely. More so because the OCTA will have no trouble hitting such speeds as easily on tarmac as it will on a thick layer of crushed moon rock, and Nokia 3310 fragments.
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