2021 Land Rover Defender 110 V8 launch review
V8 is feeling its age Won’t be cheap to run Pretty much nobody needs a Land Rover Defender V8, but lots of people are going to want it. The previous range top dog, the X-Dynamic P400, has a turbocharged, 48-volt boosted 3.0-litre straight-six that makes 294kW and gives the long-wheelbase 110 a 6.1-second 0-100km/h time. That’s plentiful performance for something so big and boxy. But the V8 blows that out of the water. Power comes from a 386kW version of JLR’s long-serving 5.0-litre supercharged V8, this being the engine the company brought in-house when Ford stopped making it last ...
Source: drive.com.au