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

By Road Universe

September 8, 2025

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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 financial system: 16.3 mpg

CG Report Card

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

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

Huge & Tall Consolation

Huge Man	A
Tall Man	A

Huge & Tall consolation scores are for entrance seats solely. “Huge” 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 Kind	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)

Gas sort: Premium gasoline

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

Choices on check automobile: 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)

Value as examined: $85,023

Audio-System Model

Meridian

Audio-System High quality

Poor Truthful Good Very-Good Wonderful

Execs and Cons

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

The great: Sporty character, respectable gasoline financial system, easy controls

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

Evaluation

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 utterly redesign previous to its American return.

With a seems that’s each sporty and purposeful, and costs that are available properly below these of stuffy Vary Rover-brand fashions, the Defender has turn into the most well-liked 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 autos within the Rover lineup, together with its clear and fashionable cabin, household pleasant dimensions, and refined journey high quality.

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