The rumour has been all-around for some time and now it is formally not a rumour anymore, but actuality: the new Land Rover Defender will be readily available with a V8 engine commencing following yr.
The industry may possibly be stepping on the accelerator in phrases of transferring towards electrification, but the V8 engine life on, simply due to the fact demand from customers for it is still there. For case in point, the Jaguar Land Rover five.0L in-house engine, able to generate up to 575 hp (in the SVR variation of the Selection Rover or in the Jaguar F-Sort