Islam Makhachev Car Collection: The Champion Who Does Not Buy Supercars

Last updated 6 October 2026

The pound-for-pound best fighter in the world drives a Land Rover Defender, and he did not even buy it. Islam Makhachev’s garage is three lines long. Here is each one, with its status, and the reason the list is so short.

Islam Makhachev’s car collection at a glance

Car	Year	Estimated value	Status
Land Rover Defender, Gondwana Stone, gift from ABD Auto Services Dubai	2025	nearly $100,000	Gifted
Mercedes-AMG G63	2023	$180,000 to $201,689 (HotCars, via classic.com)	Reported
Motorcycles, make and model not published	n/a	n/a	Confirmed

Three lines. That is the whole garage, and this page is shorter than the others in the series because of it. The Defender is Gifted and Confirmed: he showed it himself. The G63 is Reported by one source. The motorcycles are Confirmed as a fact, he rides, without a single model we can name.

What car does Islam Makhachev drive?

A Land Rover Defender in Gondwana Stone, given to him after he became a two-division champion at UFC 322. The pound-for-pound best fighter in the world drives a Defender, and here is why that is not strange.

Islam Makhachev was born on 27 October 1991 in Burshi, a mountain village in Dagestan. He trains at American Kickboxing Academy in California, held the lightweight title, and added the welterweight title at UFC 322. He also owns a livestock farm in Dagestan with hundreds of sheep and horses. Nothing in that sentence suggests a man who wants a Lamborghini.

He is the opposite of Conor McGregor in every way that matters to this site. McGregor’s garage is a list of trophies. Makhachev’s is a working vehicle, a reported G-wagen and some motorbikes. Both are champions. Only one of them has a Rolls-Royce.

Islam Makhachev’s Land Rover Defender

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On 15 November 2025, Makhachev beat Jack Della Maddalena by unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden to take the welterweight title and become the UFC’s eleventh two-division champion. When he got back to Dubai, ABD Auto Services, working with Makhmud Magomedov, handed him a new Land Rover Defender in Gondwana Stone, a muted stone-grey, valued at nearly $100,000.

He posted it himself. On his Instagram story he thanked his brothers for a gift he called unexpected and welcome, which is why the Defender is Confirmed as well as Gifted: the giver published it, and so did he. Two independent confirmations of one car, on the day.

The source does not say which Defender. The current generation comes as a three-door 90, a five-door 110 and a long 130, with engines from a four-cylinder to a V8. The price of the gift points to a well-specified 110, but that is a reading, not a fact, so the table leaves the variant out. For the rest of the range, see our Land Rover page.

Land Rover Defender specs and prices

Because the variant is not reported, these figures cover the current Defender range rather than one car. The price range is the one HotCars gave for the US market at the time of the gift.

Spec	Value
Generation	L663, on sale since 2019
Body styles	90 (three-door), 110 (five-door), 130 (five-door, extended)
Engines	four-cylinder petrol and diesel, six-cylinder mild hybrid, 5.0-litre supercharged V8
Power range	up to 525 PS for the V8, 635 PS for the OCTA
US price range	$58,750 to $169,950 depending on variant
Reported value of the gift	nearly $100,000
Colour	Gondwana Stone

A Defender is a serious off-roader with a luxury interior, which is the only combination that makes sense for a man who splits his year between a gym in San Jose and a farm in the Caucasus. It will climb a track to Burshi. It will also park outside a Dubai hotel without apology.

Why champions from Dagestan get cars as gifts

The Defender was not the first car handed to a fighter from the Caucasus after a title, and it will not be the last. Khabib Nurmagomedov, Makhachev’s mentor, was reported to have received a Mercedes S-Class from Ramzan Kadyrov. The pattern is a regional one: a champion returns, and the people around him mark the moment with a car.

For our status system that pattern matters. A gifted car is rarely the fighter’s own taste. It is what the giver thought a champion should drive. So the Defender tells you what Makhachev’s circle values, a capable vehicle in a quiet colour, as much as it tells you about him. That is why we keep Gifted as a separate label instead of folding it into Confirmed.

It also explains why Makhachev’s thank-you was addressed to his brothers rather than to a dealership. In Dagestan the car is the message. The brand is secondary.

Islam Makhachev’s Mercedes-AMG G63

HotCars reports a 2023 Mercedes-AMG G63, and prices it at $180,000 to $201,689 using classic.com sales data. That is one source, and a price taken from the market rather than from his invoice, so the car is Reported. We have not found a post of his own showing it.

If the report is right, the G63 is the car that bridges the two halves of his life. It is the default vehicle of the Caucasus for anyone who can afford one, boxy and upright like the old Defender, and it is also the car you see outside every gym in Dubai. For the brand’s other cars on this site, see our Mercedes-Benz page.

Mercedes-AMG G 63 specs

HotCars’ figures for the G 63, which match the numbers Mercedes-AMG published for the second-generation W463 at its 2018 launch.

Spec	Value
Engine	4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8
Power	577 hp (585 PS)
Torque	627 lb-ft (850 Nm)
Gearbox	9-speed automatic
Drivetrain	permanent all-wheel drive with three locking differentials
0 to 100 km/h	4.5 seconds

A G 63 is a 2.5-tonne box that reaches 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds, which is the reason it is the one off-roader that supercar owners also buy. Makhachev, on the reported evidence, went the other way: the box first, no supercar at all.

The motorcycles

Makhachev rides motorcycles. That much is confirmed by his own posts. What he rides is not: the sources that mention the bikes do not name a brand, and he has not either. So the table has a row that says motorcycles and nothing else, and we would rather have that row than a guessed model.

If a make appears on his own channel, the row gets a name. Until then it stays as a fact without a badge.

The farm, the horses and the sheep

The farm is not a vehicle, but it explains the vehicles. Makhachev owns a livestock farm in Dagestan with hundreds of sheep and horses, and he spends his time away from the gym there. A Defender and a G-wagen are farm cars with the price of supercars. The motorcycles are how you get around a mountain village.

That is the reading of this garage. Not a man who could not afford a Ferrari, but a man whose life has no road for one. The horses are the fast things he owns.

How his garage compares

In our UFC fighters car collections 2026, Makhachev has the shortest list and the clearest story. Alex Pereira bought two Lamborghinis and announced each one. McGregor built a fleet. Makhachev was given a Defender and said thank you.

The comparison with his mentor is the one that lands. Khabib Nurmagomedov drove a Ferrari California T and a Mercedes-AMG GT S until, on the reported evidence, they were seized in 2024. Makhachev, a generation later and with more titles, drives a Land Rover. Same village roads. Different answer.

Every profile in our Celebrity car collections 2026 hub uses the same labels, which is why a three-line table can sit next to an eight-line one without apology.

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