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Here's your first look at the V8 Defender Octa that'll take on the Dakar

Plus, confirmation that 14-time Dakar winner Stephane Peterhansel will helm the works team Land Rover is chucking a Defender Octa into the 'stock' category of the World Rally Raid Championship next January, and the first images of the prototype - christened the 'Dakar D7X-R' - have just dropped. Sporting a fresh camo livery teeming with white stickers, the backdrop for these initial tests is the Moroccan section of the Sahara Desert - chosen to 'mirror' the sort of extreme heat and dusty conditions the D7X-R will face in less than eight months. And an excuse for some of the engineers to kick up a plume or two, probably.