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

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September 11, 2025

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2025 Land Rover Defender 110 X-Dynamic SE

Specs

Class: Premium Premium Midsize crossover

Nation of Manufacture: Slovakia

Coloration: Silicon Silver

Seating Capability: 5

Miles pushed: 118

Actual-world gasoline financial system: 16.3 mpg

CG Report Card

Room and Consolation	B+
Energy and Efficiency	B+
Match and End	B+
Gasoline 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 degree evaluated, and should not mirror Client Information’s impressions of your entire mannequin lineup.

Massive & Tall Consolation

Massive Man	A
Tall Man	A

Massive & Tall consolation scores are for entrance seats solely. “Massive” ranking based mostly on male tester weighing roughly 350 kilos, “Tall” ranking based mostly 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 computerized
Drive Wheels	AWD

Driving combine: 65% metropolis, 35% freeway

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

Gasoline kind: Premium fuel

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

Choices on take a look at car: Chilly Local weather Pack ($500), Off-Street 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)

Worth as examined: $85,023

Audio-System Model

Meridian

Audio-System High quality

Poor Honest Good Very-Good Glorious

Execs and Cons

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

The nice: Sporty character, first rate gasoline financial system, easy controls

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

Overview

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 troublesome 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 to be like that’s each sporty and purposeful, and costs that are available effectively beneath these of stuffy Vary Rover-brand fashions, the Defender has turn 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 engaging pricing relative to the opposite automobiles within the Rover lineup, together with its clear and fashionable cabin, household pleasant dimensions, and refined journey high quality.

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