2026 Land Rover Defender updates look refined, however they repair one big annoyance for homeowners

We’ve discovered the display screen within the Vary Rover Sport to be an enormous enchancment over the earlier unit, due to Land Rover’s uprated infotainment system, boasting sharper graphics and faster responses to inputs.

The inside doesn’t simply characteristic a brand new display screen, nevertheless; there’s additionally a reshaped centre console design, and in case you specify the ‘Signature Suite’ improve, you’ll get detachable facet pockets.

Some new technological updates have arrived, too, together with the elective adaptive off-road cruise management. That is an evolution of Land Rover’s ‘All Terrain Progress Management’ and may assist scale back driver effort whereas off-roading – notably in a convoy. A brand new driver-attention monitor has been added as properly to supply audio-visual alerts to make sure drivers stay alert. Land Rover is eager to level out that this may be disabled utilizing the driver-assistance menu.

The corporate hasn’t talked about any powertrain modifications for the up to date Defender, so we will anticipate the identical selection of mild-hybrid 3.0-litre straight-sixes in diesel or petrol kind, a supercharged 5.0-litre V8, the two.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder plug-in hybrid and the breathtaking BMW M-derived 4.4-litre V8 within the OCTA. 

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