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“Night of the Characters”, Part Six: In Hanover, ramp photographer and chief reporter Matthias Mederer spoke about the Defender OCTA to an all-male audience at the invitation of the local Defender dealer, Auto Nagel. Among other things, he explained how he came up with the ramp headline “They’re flying again” whilst in the desert dust of Morocco, and why the idea behind the name OCTA can certainly also be viewed in the light of the concept of antifragility, as proposed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

What happens when British design meets Chinese technology? The comeback of the Freelander from Land Rover – directly as an independent brand. The first Freelander 8 model has now been unveiled at the Auto China trade fair in Beijing.

A Defender with as much power as the OCTA raises an eyebrow. And rightly so. It was built precisely for this purpose.

No one had really doubted it, of course. Still, the Defender wants to prove itself once and for all – at the toughest off-road race in the world: the 2026 Dakar Rally. The best part of it all? We were there for the test drives in Morocco. And how!