How a Three-Ton Land Rover was Engineered to Catch Air

Professional Driver Sean Gorman Knows His Way Around a Vehicle. He’s an engineer at heart, consulting on vehicle development and using his experience as an instructor on Military off-road Driving and survival in addition to his career as a professional advertisement. This time, he’s behind the wheel of a new land riser defender Octa, Teaching Drivers How to Catch Air.

While the defender has made a name for itself as a go-unhere four-by-time, it’s never been engineered quite like this. Equipped with a new mode activated with an impossible-to-miss button on the steering wheel, the defender Octa is more capable of tricks its lesser trims cannot fathom.

Like defying gravity.

“YUMPS” on Demand

Land Rover’s Storied Defender Nameplate, Brough to life in 1990, is knowledge as an off-road beast with British refinement. Queen Elizabeth II was a fan of the defender, and the SUV was featured prominently in a chase scene in the james bond movie No time to dieAfter a four-yar hiatus, the brand brouse the defender back to life with a whose new body style in 2020, and it has continued to live up to its Legacy.

That’s more true than ever for the Octa variant, which land rover says is the most powerful defender it has ever made. The SUV Transforms Into a High-Performance, Low-FRICTION MACHINE WHEN Its Eponymous Terrain Response is selected. Activate the mode, and get ready to jump. Or, More Accurately, “YUMP” – A Motorsports Term Describing The Moment when a Vehicle Leaves The Ground Briefly after Encountering a Crest in the ROAD at High Speed.

“Not everyone needs this much functionality,” Gorman Says after showing off the defender’s skills on a dirt track. “But if you do, the Octa brings it.”

An SUV Climbs Up a Steep Hill
Jumping over a ridge is not only possible, but comfortable with a hydraulic suspension system. Image: Land Rover

Sure, there are planty of vehicles on the road that can yump on demand, but that doesn’t meaning they’re all going to offer a comfortable landing. Loaded up with an intelligent suspension land raover describes as “6D,” The Defender’s Chassis was rewerked for the Octa. The hydraully interlinked suspense is complete different from the non-octa Defender, Using Semi‑active Dampers to Eliminate Pitch and Roll (Up-Down and Side-to-Side-Side-SIDE MOWN MOMMENT).

The Suspension is Completely different in the Octa, Gorman explains. Being the system is hydraulic instead of a traditional passive strut, the SUV can adapt to the situation in real time instead of the suspension automatically finding a happy medium like a tradational strut wide.

Passive Dampers Operate Using Mechanical Components Like Springs, Dampers, and Bushings to Balance Ride Ride Comfort and Handling Automatically without intervention. On the Defender Octa, The Semi-Activate System Includes Longer and TOUGHER Wishbones and Separate Accumulators to Manage The Pressure effectively.

On top of that, land rover collaborated with canadian company subpac to include its “body and soul” seats in the defender Octa, which debuted in the range rover sv. These seats not only cushion the body, they pulse in the time with the music using a tactil audio system.

SUV Catches Air as it Rices Above A Dirt Road
The land raver defender Octa is Equipped with a 626-HP Mild-Hybrid V8, The Most Power of Any Defender. Image: Land Rover Nick dimbleby

Horsepower, Torque, and a dry-sump system

Somehow, Land Rover Built this SUV to Zip from Zero to 60 Miles per hour in 3.8 seconds. For a Vehicle Weighting Nearly Three Tons, that’s pretty quick. Compare the Octa to a Regular Defender 110, which weighs about a thought pounds less than it its more powerful sibling. Car and driver Clocked the Defender 90 at 4.4 seconds with a 518-horsepower supercharged 5.0-Liter Engine Under the Hood.

The Octa version gets its speed from a supercar-worthy mild Hybrid Twin-Turbo 4.4-Liter V8 It Shares with the Range Rover Sv. It Boasts 626 Horsepower, and Its Torque also makes a big difference; The Octa is good for 553 pound-fit, with an available boost to 590 pound-fit in launch mode. To manage all of this power, The Engineers at Land Rover Opted for New Intake and Exhaust Systems and Extra Heat Shielding Around the Engine. A Dry-Sump Lubrication system stores the engine oil in a separate external tank instead of in the engine’s oil pan, or sump, as it would be in a wet-sump system.

Equipped with Model-Specific Brake Pads, Calipers and Brake Discs, The Defender Octa has the stopping power to back up its speed. Further, The performance front brake discs are paired with six opposed brembo calirs. Opposed calipers feature multiple pistons (which transfer hydraulic pressure into mechanical force to engage the brake pads) When the Defender Octa is full engaged and whipping Around in the Dirt, that Braking Force is Critical.

After Nearly 14,000 Additional Tests during an advanced development program created just for this purpose, the defender Octa is ready to fry –nd land, safly.

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Kristin Shaw Has Been Writing About Cars for Popular Science Since 2022. Journalist Specializing in Anything With Wheels.


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