Three car garage: Jaguar I-Pace, Land Rover Discovery and Skoda Octavia award winners, all for £45kIt also got us thinking about previous champions and what we’d like to fill our imaginary driveway – here we’ve found three excellent former Car of the Year winners that still boast plenty of appeal. Skoda Octavia – £11,300 The…
New Land Rover Defender OCTA 2025 review: ferocious and graceful in equal measureVerdict If there’s another road car on sale with a broader range of abilities, we’ve yet to drive it. Not from anyone, anywhere, at any price. As such, the OCTA is a vehicle some folks will feel they absolutely must have in order…
Land Rover Freelander to return in 2026, but not to the UKMeanwhile over in China, JLR has had a joint venture with the automotive giant Chery – owners of Omoda and Jaecoo – for more than a decade, which it hopes will be revitalised by these forthcoming Freelander EVs. The collaboration – Chery Jaguar Land…
Land Rover Defender OCTA will compete at DakarLand Rover has announced that its Dakar Rally challenger will be a ‘competition-spec’ car based on the Defender Octa. The entry comes as part of a full FIA World Rally Raid Championship W2RC programme. Between 2026 and 2028, two Defenders will take part across the full five rounds…
Land Rover Defender Classic V8 review: more Clarkson’s Farm than CountryfileHowever, quarter of a million pounds gets you a lot more than your run-of-the-mill restoration project with a shiny ‘Classic Works’ badge to show off to your mates; the Classic V8 takes things back to the drawing board, while also maintaining almost all of the…
500 job losses at Jaguar Land Rover “disappointing”, says Government“Jaguar Land Rover is preparing to cut as many as 500 UK jobs in the aftermath of tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump earlier this year. The voluntary redundancy scheme will be solely focused on management within the business, and job cuts will not exceed…
Classic Land Rovers get all-electric power thanks to InvertedElectric powertrain conversions of classic cars are in full swing, and now Leicestershire-based firm Inverted has turned its attention to electrifying the iconic Land Rover Series I, II and III. Inverted’s new Series Land Rovers are powered by a decently-sized 62kWh battery pack. There’s a single electric…
Land Rover Freelander to return in 2026, but not to the UKMeanwhile over in China, JLR has had a joint venture with the automotive giant Chery – owners of Omoda and Jaecoo – for more than a decade, which it hopes will be revitalised by these forthcoming Freelander EVs. The collaboration – Chery Jaguar Land…
New Land Rover Defender Octa Black will be hard to spot in the darkHot on the heels of the Range Rover Sport SV Black, comes a new flagship Land Rover Defender. The creatively named Land Rover Defender Octa Black features no fewer than 30 pieces of exterior trim finished in either gloss or satin black,…
Classic Land Rover Defender Soft Top returns as a £234,000, V8-powered restomodThis is the new Land Rover Defender Classic V8 Soft Top: the latest, and what will almost certainly be the most sought after, official restomod of the iconic British 4×4 that comes with a price tag of £234,000. This is also the first Defender…