Originally Posted by lrFFM

You can actually buy the OCTA 20" and 22" wheels directly from Landrover.

Originally Posted by therift72

You cant buy these wheels from LR. They are noted on their website as 'Only available with OCTA'

Forza are making non OEM versions.

Originally Posted by CincyRovers

This is not the case - the front and rear quarter panels and the rear doors are completely different to the standard car. Yes, the fenders are tacked on, but according to my friend who was on the engineering team of the OCTA, they have special connectors built into the fenders underneath the flares - they have a different manufacturing process compared to the standard ones. You will not be able to directly attach the fender flares to a standard car. Also, the fuel door is one piece of metal - the part that flares out isn't tacked on. It is quite interesting that they'd go that far to cast a completely different fuel door than to just stick on a flare.

Also the OCTA is much more than a Defender with a widebody kit. The suspension is completely different. Not only does it have the 6D Dynamic suspension that uses hydraulics in the place of the anti-roll bars, the knuckle, wishbones and bushings are exclusive to OCTA. The air springs are the same, however. OCTA also has an additional support beam/crash bar behind the front bumper, something the standard car doesn't have.

Originally Posted by tgibrit

JLR, like all OEMs, will save money wherever they can and reuse as much tooling as possible from existing platform. what they tell the public is not necessarily accurate. Porsche have the same issue with their GT cars, they just make the GT car parts prohibitively expensive. I would expect many OCTA parts can be made to made to fit with minimal modification - time will tell.

Originally Posted by CincyRovers

I got this information from one of my friends who is a development engineer at JLR, and his team specifically worked on the body structure of the vehicle. This information wasn't explicitly stated by JLR. He told me that the front and rear quarter panels and rear doors are bespoke to OCTA. He is a reputable source, and everything he has told me about the OCTA has been true.

Originally Posted by tgibrit

Great, then the rest of the OCTA parts will fit, like the grill centerpiece .......

Originally Posted by CincyRovers

Potentially - the OCTA has a different front crash bar that the standard vehicle doesn't have. The people from the JLR UK press office (who were extremely knowledgeable - most PR people I've come across know jack **** about the vehicles they are promoting) on-site at Goodwood told me that the OCTA has an extra steel crash bar behind the front grille. I was able to see it behind the grille and couldn't tell of the front grille/bumper was attached to this structure or not. If it is, then it will not fit a standard car as far as I'm aware. I did ask if all Defenders would be getting the crash bar for MY25, and that was something they couldn't confirm at the time.

But stuff like mudflaps, fender flares, front and rear bumpers etc. will not directly fit on the standard cars.

Originally Posted by tgibrit

I remain skeptical, OEMs don't spend money unless they absolutely have to, they may claim many things, not all are true. But as I said time will tell. I would predict things like an extra crash bar can be bolted to the existing structure.