2021 Land Rover Defender gets supercharged V8 power By Motoring Reporter - 03 March 2021 The new Land Rover Defender 110 and 90 V8 models will arrive in SA during the second half of 2021. Image: Supplied Remember those days when the Land Rover Defender was laughed at for being one of the slowest vehicles on the road? Well now it's been turned into one of the quickest, courtesy of the fitment of a potent new engine. Land Rover on Thursday announced that its new flagship Defender 90 and 110 V8 models come armed with a burly 5.0-litre supercharged V8 motor that produces 386kW and a whopping 625Nm worth of torque.