Jaguar Land Rover
News : JLR announces Coronation Festival partnership
As the only automotive manufacturer to hold all three Royal Warrants, it’s fitting that Jaguar Land Rover is will be the official motor partner for the Royal Preview of the Coronation Festival on 11 July. The Coronation Festival, which takes place in the gardens of Buckingham Palace on 11-14 July, is a celebration of innovation, [...]
June 11, 2013
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News : RR Sport sets Pikes Peak record
The Range Rover Sport established the record for a production-standard SUV and broke the record for any kind of production-standard vehicle on the Pikes Pike International Hill Climb course, venue of the spectacular annual competition known as ‘The Race To the Clouds’. The Range Rover Sport completed the 12.42-mile asphalt course in 12 minutes 35.61 [...]
June 10, 2013
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First Drive : Land Rover Defender Electric prototype
First thing’s first… After reading this, don’t head over to your local Land Rover dealer and expect to be able to hand over a deposit for a new Defender Electric. Land Rover will tell you it’s an engineering programme evaluating whether battery power is suited to the most arduous of terrain and conditions – and, [...]
June 4, 2013
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News : Jaguar Land Rover profits up 11%
The Jaguar Land Rover success story shows no sign of abating, as the company reports another significant rise in sales and profits during the past 12 months. The company has reported revenues of £15.8bn for the fiscal year ended 31 March 2013, up 17% year on year (£13.5bn last year). Retail sales increased 22% to [...]
May 30, 2013
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News : JLR opens new R&D facility in the Middle East
Jaguar Land Rover further enhanced its Middle East test programme by opening a new engineering test centre in Dubai, UAE, to conduct extreme hot weather vehicle research, development and testing. With temperatures in the desert typically reaching 48 to 50 degrees Celsius in the summer months, the new 11,120sq ft facility in the Al Barsha [...]
May 12, 2013
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News : Jaguar F-Type is just the beginning…
Honest John With the F-Type, Jaguar intends to offer a full range of models in order to broaden the appeal of its sports cars. The most likely extension to the line-up is a coupe. The original concept car – the Jaguar C-X16, revealed at the Frankfurt show in 2011 - had a hardtop. It would [...]
April 16, 2013
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News : JLR posts a record March
Jaguar Land Rover UK has reported its highest sales month ever in March, owing to desirable new product and continued strong demand. Jaguar Land Rover sold 17,773 vehicles in the UK in March, compared to 14,789 in March 2012 – an increase of 20%. Land Rover’s sales success was led by the all-new Range Rover [...]
April 3, 2013
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News : 2013 Range Rover Sport revealed
David Ross, Honest John Land Rover has unveiled the new Range Rover Sport which is set to go on sale this September with prices expected to start at around £55,000. Land Rover is calling it the ‘fastest, most agile and most responsive’ model it’s ever built yet thanks to weight saving it will be more [...]
March 27, 2013
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News : JLR posts strong sales in February
Jaguar Land Rover sold 26,855 vehicles during February, an increase of 3% versus the same period last year. During the first two months of the year, Jaguar Land Rover sold 61,732 vehicles, up 18%. February sales were up in almost every major market: 20% in Asia Pacific, 20% in North America, 15% in the UK, [...]
March 15, 2013
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Geneva Motor Show 2013 : JLR round-up
Words and photography Andrew Elphick In the middle of hall five, spanning adjacent stands Tata’s luxury brands, Jaguar and Land Rover stood bold as brass – and with good reason. AROnline was present at the press conference, and here our the best bits, just for you: First up, making its European launch was the XFR-S [...]
March 10, 2013
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News : JLR to double engine plant workforce
Headline Auto Jaguar Land Rover, already the UK’s leading automotive investor in research and development with a £3billion spend in 2012, is doubling the number of jobs at is new Wolverhampton engine plant to 1400. Dr Ralf Speth, Chief Executive Officer, said that the 700 new jobs at the four-cylinder engine plant, due on stream by [...]
March 6, 2013
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News : Land Rover unveils electric Defender for Geneva
Keith Adams Land Rover is unveiling seven new electric Defender models at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. The research vehicle’s standard diesel engine and gearbox have been replaced by a 70kW (94bhp), 330Nm electric motor twinned with a 300-volt, lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 27kWh, giving a claimed range of more than 50 miles. [...]
February 28, 2013
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News : Range Rover Evoque gets nine-speeds
Land Rover is to show the first passenger car to be fitted with a nine-speed gearbox at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. The automatic gearbox, developed by ZF, will be fitted initially to the Range Rover Evoque, and should offer improved economy, reduced emissions and a quieter ride. It also has the benefit of offering [...]
February 27, 2013
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News : Range Rover L405 keeps on winning
The Range Rover L405 has notched up 10 international awards in the three months since production began. The world’s first aluminium SUV’s most recent honour came from the AUTOBEST group of motoring writers, naming the all-new Range Rover ‘TECHNOBEST 2012’. Recent awards also include ‘Dream Machine’ from MotorWeek, ‘Luxury Car of the Year’ from both [...]
February 22, 2013
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News : Jaguar Land Rover off to a flying start
Jaguar Land Rover sold 34,877 vehicles during the first month of 2013, an increase of 32% versus the same period last year. January sales were up across every major market with sales up 74% in China, 46% in Asia Pacific, 33% in the UK, 24% in North America and 10% in Europe. In January, Land [...]
February 12, 2013
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News : JLR needs to invest in the future
Jaguar Land Rover has returned to health in the four years since it was bought by Tata Motors, but now comes the hard part for the luxury British automaker: proving it can build new models without former owner Ford. Since Tata took a $2.3bn gamble to buy JLR from Ford at the height of the [...]
January 20, 2013
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News : More apprentices at MINI and Jaguar Land Rover
MINI and Jaguar Land Rover are looking for apprentices to work a their Oxford and Birmingham factories. MINI needs 32 new recruits to take up places at the Oxford Plant in August, as well as a further 13 places available at Swindon and Hams Hall, near Birmingham. MINI’s apprenticeships will last between three and four [...]
January 16, 2013
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News : Jaguar Land Rover creates 800 new jobs
Jaguar Land Rover has announced the creation of 800 at its Solihull factory. The company’s growth in production numbers is a reflection of booming global sales, and the new jobs are to support future growth plans. More than 200 of these roles are supported by the UK Government’s Regional Growth Fund. There’s already 6000 employees [...]
January 13, 2013
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News : Jaguar ‘Hyperbrid’ cancelled!
Andrew Elphick Some cunning investigation has procured the (rather unsurprising news) that Jaguar does not intend to to put its C-X75 supercar into production. In echoes of 1988′s British motor show XJ220 launch, the C-X75 had already ‘downsized’ from Gas turbine propulsion to a four-cylinder multi-charged engine (the XJ220 show car famously boasted four-wheel drive [...]
December 11, 2012
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News : Jaguar XFR-S breaks cover in LA
The Jaguar XFR-S has been unveiled at the 2012 Los Angeles motor show, and it’s going M5, RS and AMG hunting. The new British super-saloon receives the same engine as the XKR-S with 542bhp, gets its speed limiter raised to 186mph, and has been priced at £79,995. The XFR-S’s 5.0-litre supercharged V8 has been boosted [...]
November 28, 2012
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