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LAND ROVER DEFENDER OCTA
Evo UK
|January 2026
NO, ONE OF THE CREW CARS HAS NOT ACCIDENTALLY been added to the voting list, and neither have we taken leave of our senses; this really is a Land Rover Defender and it really is on evo Car of the Year.
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Performance SUVs have generally had very little exposure in our end-of-year gathering; the first was Porsche's Cayenne Turbo in 2003, and more recently Aston Martin's DBX made an appearance in 2020. And now it's the Defender's turn.
This story is from the January 2026 edition of Evo UK.
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