Forget your SVR-tuned Range Rovers. This is something else entirely. Where they are all about turning these behmoths into fully-fledged performance cars, the Octa treatment turns it up a further notch by making a performance Defender with SVR poise that can deliver huge speed off-road, too. Tough brief.
The Octa takes the Defender 110 body and, in a wholesale re-engineering job, upgrades almost everything bolted to the core, unchanged body-in-white. The big news concerns power and suspension. You can’t currently buy a core Defender 110 with a V8 engine (the 90 and 130 can still be had with the old 5.0-litre V8 supercharged unit).
