Jaguar unveiled the one-off Jaguar XJ75 Platinum Concept at last weekend’s Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance as part of the margue’s 75th Anniversary celebrations. The XJ75 Platinum Concept showcases the potential for customising the company’s new XJ luxury saloon and features ground-hugging front, rear and side sills, Satin Matte Pearlescent White paintwork, dark chrome and gloss [...]

Keith Adams  It’s been a long and tough 2010 so far. There never seem to be quite enough hours in the day to get everything done, what with the demands of Octane Magazine and AROnline but, here we are, still delivering great stories online. This week’s scoop about the Rover 55 is a case in point – [...]

Automotive News Europe/Reuters, 13th August, 2010 LONDON (Reuters) – Money-losing Manganese Bronze Holdings PLC, which builds London’s black cabs, may need to look for a new investor after Chinese group Geely Automobile Holdings Limited decided not to buy a 14 million pound ($21.83 million) controlling stake. Geely Automobile, whose privately held parent, Zhejiang Geely Holding [...]

Automotive News Europe/Bloomberg, 12th August, 2010 MUMBAI (Bloomberg)  – Jaguar Land Rover, the maker of the $80,000 Jaguar XF sedan, is working with Ford Motor Co. to increase supplies of engines after a larger-than-expected jump in sales left it facing a shortage. Tata Motors Limited, the owner of the UK-based luxury brands, has bought “considerably [...]

Autocar India, 11th August, 2010 It’s been only little over a year since Land Rover’s India entry but the British brand has already decided to go Indian. Come 2011 and Land Rover will start local assembly in India. The first model to come through the Completely Knocked Down (CKD) route will be the Freelander 2. With that [...]

Mike Humble Following a recent discussion with our Editor, Keith Adams, it has been mooted that AROnline would benefit from expanding into the realms of commercial vehicles. Initially, the plan is to take a look at the 1980s era and cover the well-known T45  range of trucks. I have plenty of technical information about these vehicles, but [...]

Automotive News Europe/Bloomberg, 10th August, 2010 MUMBAI (Bloomberg) – Shares in Tata Motors Limited, the Indian owner of Jaguar Land Rover, rose to their highest level in more than 19 years after the company posted a first-quarter profit on demand for luxury SUVs and sedans. The carmaker made a net income of 19.9 billion rupees [...]

Automotive News Europe/Reuters, 10th August, 2010 MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Tata Motors Limited plans to start assembling Land Rovers in India starting next year, its Chief Executive Officer said on Tuesday. Tata Motors already sells the the premium SUV in India. Tata Motors, which acquired luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford Motor Co. [...]

Ash Sutcliffe, China Car Times, 10th August, 2010    The LDV brand has a long history and not all of it is glorious. The brand’s roots date back to the Freight Rover vans sold under the then British Leyland banner and which, in turn, later became part of Leyland-DAF. LDV was subsequently acquired by the Russian GAZ Group in 2006.    However, despite the [...]

Keith Adams THE MORE OBSERVANT regular readers will have noticed that there’s a ‘Donate’ button in the menu pane on the front page of the AROnline website. For the past ten years we’ve been growing this site, making it bigger and more invaluable, turning out what I hope is the definitive online resource for future generations curious [...]

Keith Adams The Rover 45 was one of the longest-lived stop-gap cars produced in a very long time. We all think of the Morris Marina as a car that outlived its usefulness by many, many years (1971-1984, if one considers the Ital a Marina), but the Rover 45 equals that achievement when one considers that [...]

Keith Adams I wouldn’t say that the XJ is a make-or-break car for Jaguar commercially, as the XF and XK have both proven highly successful for the leaping cat. However, in one respect, the XJ is hugely important to the company – it represents the final stage of a three-phase plan to replace retro design [...]

Keith Adams Back in 1988, when Rover was getting down to the business of devising a replacement for the XX-Series 800, there were still questions over financing the project. It was clear that, under BAe’s control, Rover wasn’t going to be getting the development resources that it had under Government ownership and the Design Department was now [...]

Autocar, 6th August, 2010 Range Rover is planning to slot another model into its line-up between the new Evoque and the Range Rover Sport, according to well-placed sources. Encouraged by the reception to the Evoque, bosses in the company now believe there could be scope for another niche model. It would cost more than the [...]

Automotive News Europe/Bloomberg, 5th August, 2010 MUMBAI (Bloomberg) – Tata Sons Limited is searching for a successor to Chairman Ratan Tata, whose acquisitions of Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Group Plc charted India’s emergence as a global economic power. The 72-year-old Ratan, who built Tata Group into India’s biggest with revenue of more than $70 billion, [...]

Sam Skelton Don’t let this happen to your pride and joy. (Image © Alex Smith) I’ve not written much for AROnline recently, I’m afraid. It’s something I enjoy doing but, because of other commitments, I’ve not been able to find the time to sit down and write a half-decent article. Anyway, now I’m back I’m going to write [...]

Bob Grace, previously Jaguar Land Rover Overseas Operations Director, has been appointed to the newly created position of President, Jaguar Land Rover China. As President, Grace will oversee the company’s rapidly expanding operations in China and focus on managing sales growth of the two brands. Grace first joined the company in 1985 and has served in [...]

Land Rover has today released details of the MY11 Freelander 2 model range which goes on sale in the UK from the end of September 2010 and benefits from a new 2.2-litre diesel engine available with either 150PS or 190PS outputs, a new look exterior plus interior alterations including new instrument dials and a new Premium Pack option. [...]

Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post, 30th July, 2010 Dozens of Jaguar workers are enjoying a six-week summer holiday – because the luxury car maker has been too successful. The Big Cat has turned its sales performance round so dramatically in the first half of 2010 that some parts suppliers to the XF and XJ models are [...]

Words and Pictures: Mike Humble  A few months ago, a very good friend of mine bought a REALLY cheap 2002 Rover 25 Impression S from a private seller in North London following an inspection by yours truly. After a well deserved service, which included a timing belt, water pump and rear silencer, the car was, [...]