Land Rover is taking the Defender Octa racing in the desert, and the rigs it built look pretty awesome. Three teams running specially prepared Defender Dakar D7X-Rs will be competing in next year's ...

A new documentary miniseries chronicling Sara Price's Dakar Rally journey, culminating in a run at the 2026 event with the factory Defender team, is coming to Discovery Channel and Discovery+ in the U ...

Land Rover's Defender has been a familiar sight in the Dakar Rally for many years, but the British brand has never before lined up with a full factory team. That will change in 2026: the Defender will ...

There's no race on Earth quite like the Dakar Rally. Since the first 6,200-mile contest in 1979, from Paris to Senegal, riders and drivers from all walks of life have crossed Africa, South America, ...

What do one of the world's most demanding races, the Dakar Rally, and one of the planet's most luxurious carmakers, Rolls-Royce, have in common? The simple answer is nothing, but the more nuanced one ...

For a few years now, New Atlas has picked some of its favorite pictures from the grueling, multi-thousand-mile desert race called the Dakar Rally. Dozens of professional photographers from around the ...

Porsche has completed the production run of the 911 Dakar, and the final example to roll off the production line is more special than most, thanks to the folks from the brand’s Sonderwunsch division.

Sebastien Loeb believes tyres have become the decisive weak point in the Dakar Rally after his 2026 campaign was derailed by a string of punctures. World Rally Championship legend Loeb arrived in ...

In a marketplace saturated with collector bait, the 2024 Porsche 911 Dakar emerges as a legitimately special vehicle. Equal parts a celebration of their rally heritage and recognition of an ...

Porsche and Lamborghini saved their bacon with SUVs – the Cayenne and the Urus are the cash cows for their respective makers. But neither of the two made their name in the Camel Trophy purgatories, or ...