The new Range Rover Evoque passed an important milestone yesterday when the first production vehicle was driven off the line at Land Rover’s Halewood manufacturing plant in Liverpool. Jaguar Land Rover’s CEO, Ralf Speth together with JLR executive officers, union representatives and employees, gathered to celebrate the start of new Range Rover Evoque production. The [...]

Enda Mullen, Birmingham Post, 9 June 2011 News that Jaguar Land Rover is set to build its new UK engine factory in Wolverhampton represents one of the biggest boosts to regional manufacturing in many years. Though some industry insiders tipped it as the favoured destination, given its proximity to the Birmingham and Solihull plants and [...]

Jon Griffin, Birmingham Post, 9 June 2011 Jaguar Land Rover has chosen Wolverhampton to base its new 800,000 sq ft engine plant in the biggest single boost to West Midlands manufacturing for a generation. Bosses at the record-breaking vehicle maker have earmarked the new i54 Business Park at Pendeford as the site for a new [...]

Jaguar Land Rover has today officially opened its first assembly plant in India. The facility, which has been built at Pune in the Maharashtra region of India, will assemble Land Rover Freelander 2 vehicles supplied in Complete Knock Down (CKD) form from Jaguar Land Rover’s Halewood manufacturing plant in Liverpool, UK. The inauguration ceremony was led [...]

Automotive News Europe/Reuters, 8 May 2011 The Sunday Telegraph yesterday reported that Jaguar Land Rover has held talks with the Government about financial support for bringing a new £750m ($1.20 billion) engine plant to the UK, The newspaper said senior management from JLR and parent Tata Motors Limited met officials from the Department of Business [...]

Automotive News Europe/Reuters, 7 May 2011 Jaguar Land Rover is still seeking a partner in the fast-growing Chinese market as it plows more than £5bn ($8.2 billion) into developing new vehicles over the next five years. India’s Tata Motors Limited, which bought JLR from Ford Motor Co. in 2008, wants the British brands to better compete [...]

Jaguar has today confirmed that the company will launch the remarkable C-X75 Concept car as an exclusive hybrid supercar. The Jaguar C-X75 will become the British marque’s most advanced model to date. It will offer performance on a par with the fastest production cars on the market, while adopting cutting-edge technology that offers remarkably economical running. Jaguar [...]

Joaquim Oliveira, Automotive News Europe, 17 April 2011 Jaguar Land Rover plans to nearly double the size of its Dealer Network in China within two years as part of its growth plans for the world’s biggest auto market, Carl-Peter Forster, CEO of the British automaker’s owner Tata Motors Limited, told Automotive News Europe. Foster said [...]

Jaguar Land Rover have today announced record-breaking sales performances in March from key international markets, most notably the UK, China and India. Jaguar Land Rover combined were up 6% globally in March and 13% ahead of 2010 for the first quarter. ‘Despite a challenging business environment, Jaguar Land Rover is flourishing on a global scale [...]

David Bailey, Birmingham Post, 28th February, 2011 There has been a clutch of news and speculation over the last few weeks about Jaguar Land Rover’s plans for expansion both geographically and in terms of speeding up the development of a new range of cars. Speculation has been mounting that the firm is in talks with [...]

Automotive News Europe, 21st February, 2011 BEIJING (Reuters) – Jaguar Land Rover is in talks with top Chinese SUV maker Great Wall Motor Company Limited (GWM) about a potential China partnership, two executives told Reuters on Monday. JLR, a unit of India’s Tata Motors Limited, is among a very few top-line global brands that do not [...]

Automotive News Europe/Bloomberg, 11th February, 2011 MUMBAI (Bloomberg) – Tata Motors Limited, the owner of Jaguar Land Rover, said third-quarter profit more than tripled as a global economic recovery and rising wealth in emerging markets boosted demand for luxury vehicles. Net income rose to 24.2 billion rupees ($529 million) in the three months ended the [...]

Automotive News Europe/Reuters, 15th December, 2010 MUMBAI (Reuters) – Jaguar Land Rover’s global sales rose 22 percent to 22,957 units in November, parent Tata Motors Limited said in a statement Wednesday. Jaguar’s sales for the month rose 30 percent to 5,621 cars while Land Rover’s volume increased 20 percent to 17,336 SUVs. Helped by strong [...]

Automotive News Europe/Bloomberg, 29th November, 2010 NEW DELHI (Bloomberg) – Tata Motors Limited will set up ten dealerships for its Jaguar and Land Rover luxury car brands in India this fiscal year to tap rising disposable incomes in Asia’s second-fastest-growing major economy. The Mumbai-based company will establish dealerships in large Indian cities such as Mumbai, New [...]

Automotive News China, 12th November, 2010 UK Prime Minister David Cameron was expected to press Chinese political leaders to approve a new assembly plant for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) quickly during a trade visit to the country this week, the Financial Times reported. JLR plans to build more than 50,000 cars a year in a [...]

Automotive News Europe/Bloomberg, 10th November, 2010 MUMBAI (Bloomberg) – Tata Motors Limited, the owner of Jaguar Land Rover, posted a more than 100-fold gain in second-quarter profit as the global economic recovery and growing demand in China and the U.S. boosted sales of luxury vehicles. Group net income, including Jaguar Land Rover, reached 22.2 billion [...]

Alun Thorne, Birmingham Post, 7th November, 2010 Workers at Jaguar Land Rover have voted overwhelmingly to accept an industry-leading pay deal – with a two-year rise securing their jobs for a decade. Unite said 74 per cent of workers at Castle Bromwich, Solihull and Halewood accepted the deal, which will see pay increase by five [...]

Automotive News Europe/Bloomberg, 25th October, 2010 SHANGHAI (Bloomberg) – Tata Motors Limited’s Jaguar Land Rover unit is in talks with a possible partner in China, CEO Carl-Peter Forster said yesterday. “It’s in the negotiations,” said Forster on the sidelines of a forum in Shanghai on Sunday. No timetable has been set for reaching a deal, [...]

Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post, 22nd October, 2010 Thousands of jobs are set to be created after Jaguar Land Rover’s U-turn on plans to close a Midland plant and now the pressure is on suppliers to benefit from the decision. Experts say JLR delivered the best news for the region’s automotive industry in a decade by [...]

David Bailey, Birmingham Post, 15th October, 2010 Jaguar Land Rover’s decision to keep open both factories in the region, at Solihull and Castle Bromwich, marks a surprising and most welcome u-turn. Even a couple of weeks ago Carl-Peter Forster, CEO of Tata Motors, insisted at the Paris Motor Show that JLR wanted to merge plants; [...]