Thomas Geiger, Automotive News Europe, 12th July, 2010 LONDON – Tata Motors CEO Carl-Peter Forster plans to move quickly to fill gaps in the Jaguar and Land Rover lineups. “Over the next few years we plan to nearly double our vehicle selection,” he told Automobilwoche, a German sister publication of Automotive News Europe. Tata Motors [...]

Tom Scotney, Birmingham Post, 6th July, 2010 Midland carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has become the latest member of a European-wide group manufacturing research and development group. JLR officially joined the European Council for Automotive R&D (EUCAR), which represents the major European automobile manufacturers in their common research activities, on the 1st July, 2010. EUCAR’s members [...]

Spen King (Charles Spencer King), creator of some of the UK’s most influential post-war cars, has died aged 85, following complications sustained from an injury he received when riding his bicycle. He had been riding to the shops as he was unable to drive following an operation to repair a detached retina – his death [...]

 Alun Thorne, Birmingham Post, 23rd June, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover is facing a ballot for industrial action – as Coventry workers press for a move to Castle Bromwich despite the closure threat to the Birmingham factory. Worried JLR workers at Coventry have balloted for a vote for action after unanimously rejecting a transfer to new [...]

David Bailey, Birmingham Post, 28th May, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover announced today that it will indeed begin assembling cars in China. JLR CEO Carl-Peter Foster said today that “we will need to manufacture at least two models in China… We’ll take one to two years to set it up, but first we will need a [...]

Steve Cropley, Editor-in-Chief, Autocar, 28th May, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover’s new boss, Carl-Peter Forster, has emerged from 100 days of silence to reveal plans for a major product shake-up. The radical vision includes greater separation for the Land Rover and Range Rover brands, the launch of an all-new, mid-size Range Rover between LRX and Range Rover [...]

Jorn Madslien, Business Reporter, BBC News, 28th May, 2010 Carmaker Jaguar Land Rover is going to start assembling vehicles in China, the BBC can confirm. “We will need to manufacture at least two models in China,” said Chief Executive Carl-Peter Forster in an interview. “We’ll take one to two years to set it up, but [...]

Paul McVeigh, Automotive News Europe, 14th May, 2010 The revival of Jaguar Land Rover continued in April with global unit sales of the two British brands growing 61 percent, compared with the same month the year before. Jaguar Land Rover worldwide unit sales last month were 17,909, owner Tata Motors Limted said. Jaguar sales for [...]

Autocar, 19th April, 2010 Tata Motors Europe CEO Carl-Peter Forster has denied a report claiming Jaguar Land Rover was set to reverse its decision to keep one of its Midlands plants open. The Sunday Times quoted an unnamed source saying the firm would keep open both Solihull and Castle Bromwich, despite its September 2009 business [...]

The Sunday Times, 18th April, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is weighing a dramatic about-face on plans to close one of its three UK production plants. Sources close to the Midlands carmaker say that a recent revival in sales coupled with the arrival of a new management team has led to a review of the [...]

Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post, 4th March, 2010 Midland car marques Jaguar and Land Rover had opposing fortunes last month as new car sales continued to accelerate ahead. Sales of Land Rover were up by more than 60 per cent in February, on the back of new models being released, while Jaguar saw sales fall by [...]

Paul McVeigh, Automotive News Europe, 18th February, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover said it has appointed former BMW Group and Ford Motor executive Ralf Speth as CEO. Speth, 54, has 22 years experience in the auto industry, mostly with BMW. His last job with the German premium carmaker was as Vice President of Land Rover when BMW owned the [...]

John Reed, Financial Times, 25th January, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover said that David Smith was stepping down as Chief Executive Officer and that Tata Motors, its Indian owner, would assist in the handover while it searched for a new head. The UK luxury marque said nothing about a possible replacement for Mr Smith, except that [...]

Sam Skelton Skelton’s Car of The Year 2009: the Jaguar XJ Right, time to be serious for a moment. 2009 has drawn to a close and I think it’s an appropriate time to list the year’s good, bad and ugly from the world of motoring. I’ll start with the things I’ve liked the look of [...]

Jaguar Land Rover North America has just announced that the Jaguar and Land Rover brands have achieved the first and fifth highest scores respectively in the industry for customer sales satisfaction in J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI) StudySM.  Jaguar is the highest scoring brand in the study for the second consecutive year, and [...]

Martin Arnold, FT.com, 16th November, 2009 Jaguar Land Rover will today announce that it has secured a new £170m working capital facility from GE Capital, allowing it to start making money from its finished vehicles long before they reach dealers’ showrooms around the world. The five-year loan is an important step for the lossmaking car [...]

Dominic O’Connell, The Sunday Times, 8th November, 2009 Carl-Peter Forster, the departing boss of General Motors Europe, has been lined up to take charge of Jaguar Land Rover, the Midlands-based luxury carmaker. Senior sources in Frankfurt and Detroit said Forster, who led GM Europe through its recent turbulent negotiations with the German Government and would-be [...]

Jon Griffin, Birmingham Post, 3rd November, 2009 Unions have called a high level summit of MPs to an emergency meeting at the House of Commons to preserve thousands of West Midland jobs feared under threat at Jaguar Land Rover. The London summit is being held on Wednesday amid growing resistance from unions over JLR’s new [...]

John Cranage, Birmingham Post, 8th October, 2009 Jaguar Land Rover secured a further multi-million pound tranche of funding yesterday with the help of its Indian owner, Tata Motors. The luxury carmaker announced it had negotiated an advance of £175 million from the State Bank of India. It brings the inflow of fresh working capital into [...]

Clive Goldthorp AROnline reckons that some of Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR’s) PR people may well have been watching Episode 1 of Five’s new American science fiction drama series FlashForward last Monday evening because Autocar.co.uk has today published two articles by Julian Rendell giving FlashForward-like glimpses of Jaguar’s Future Product Programme. JLR’s take on FlashForward has, though, [...]