The Land Rover Defender has been named Australia’s best off-road SUV in the 2026 CarExpert Choice Awards.
It beat out two finalists: the Ford Everest and Toyota Prado.
After running a range of large SUVs through a series of off-road tests earlier this year as part of our 4WD SUV megatest, we crowned the Land Rover Defender our off-road SUV winner.
This was based not only on scoring for each of the tests we conducted, but also our evaluation of the ease with which its 4WD controls are operated and how much driver input was required.
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