2025 Land Rover Defender 110 X-Dynamic SE: Photograph Function (with Costs and Specs) | The Every day Drive

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September 8, 2025

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Daring, practical, and photogenic, too.

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2025 Land Rover Defender 110 X-Dynamic SE

Specs

Class: Premium Premium Midsize crossover

Nation of Manufacture: Slovakia

Colour: Silicon Silver

Seating Capability: 5

Miles pushed: 118

Actual-world gasoline economic system: 16.3 mpg

CG Report Card

Room and Consolation	B+
Energy and Efficiency	B+
Match and End	B+
Gas Financial system	B-
Worth	B-

Report-card grades are derived from a consensus of test-driver evaluations. All grades are versus different automobiles in the identical class. Worth grade is for particular trim stage evaluated, and should not mirror Shopper Information’s impressions of your entire mannequin lineup.

Huge & Tall Consolation

Huge Man	A
Tall Man	A

Huge & Tall consolation scores are for entrance seats solely. “Huge” score primarily based on male tester weighing roughly 350 kilos, “Tall” score primarily based on 6’6″-tall male tester.

Drivetrain
Engine Specs	395-horsepower 3.0-liter
Engine Sort	Turbocharged and supercharged mild-hybrid six
Transmission	8-speed automated
Drive Wheels	AWD

Driving combine: 65% metropolis, 35% freeway

EPA-estimated gasoline economic system: 18/20/19 (metropolis, freeway, mixed)

Gas kind: Premium fuel

Base worth: $72,100 (not together with $1625 vacation spot cost)

Choices on check car: Chilly Local weather Pack ($500), Off-Highway Pack ($1735), Towing Pack ($1850), Air Suspension Pack ($1600), particular paint ($1550), Head-up Show ($1000), heated rear seat ($500), Wi-Fi service plan ($360), air-quality sensor ($100), Emergency Pack ($75), Premium Inside Safety and Storage Pack ($720), Three-Zone Local weather Management ($400), Cabin Air Purification Plus ($375), Fundamental Rear Seat Comfort Pack ($265), Wheel Safety Pack ($240), Handover Pack ($28)

Value as examined: $85,023

Audio-System Model

Meridian

Audio-System High quality

Poor Truthful Good Very-Good Glorious

Professionals and Cons

The nice: Roomy and comfy cabin, promise of off-road journey

The great: Sporty character, first rate gasoline economic system, easy controls

The not so good: Shy of cargo area aft of 2nd-seating row, expensive choices add up shortly

Assessment

Reintroduced the American marketplace for 2020, the Land Rover Defender has been stealing gross sales from different Land Rover and Vary Rover fashions ever since.

With a design that dates again to the Eighties—and actually lengthy earlier than that—the Defender had grown dated and tough to federally certify for U.S. sale. Ready for a redesign, the Defender was discontinued Stateside in 1997, and fully redesign previous to its American return.

With a appears that’s each sporty and purposeful, and costs that are available in properly beneath these of stuffy Vary Rover-brand fashions, the Defender has change into the preferred journey in U.S. Land Rover dealerships. Right here’s a sale break down for the primary half of 2025:

Credit score the Defender’s enticing pricing relative to the opposite automobiles within the Rover lineup, together with its clear and stylish cabin, household pleasant dimensions, and refined journey high quality.

Please verify our full street checks of the Land Rover Defender right here and right here. Beneath, we’d wish to share a gallery of Defender footage. We’re large followers of the ‘Fender’s spunky utilitarian design.