The UK government on Sunday announced that it will support "iconic British brand" Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) with a loan guarantee of up to 1.5 billion pounds to give certainty to the Tata Motors owned carmaker's supply chain following a devastating cyber-attack. The loan will come from a commercial bank, backed by the Department for Business and Trade's (DBT) Export Development Guarantee (EDG), provided by export credit agency UK Export Finance, to be paid back over five years.
On December 15, 2020, JLR announced that it has opened bookings of its first Plug-In Hybrid in India, the New Defender P400e.
The deal includes a security deposit of 10.10 crore and features an unusually steep 15 per cent escalation every three months, which stands out in Bengaluru's commercial leasing market.
The all-new Range Rover ditches the body-on-frame chassis for an all-aluminium monocoque construction.
After turning around the fortunes of the iconic Land Rover, Tata Motors on Tuesday said that it plans to start assembling the high-end SUV in India from next year.
Should the sled be replaced with the revamped Land Rover Freelander 2.
The UK is the single largest market for Land Rover.
Now you can buy Jaguars and Land Rovers from dedicated showrooms in India. Indian owned or not, they represent some of the best sports cars and sports utility vehicles.
The question is: Will the company have a strong balance sheet to support this massive investment plan?
Tata Motors-owned Land Rover on Wednesday said its new sports utility vehicle -- Range Rover Evoque, which will hit the market in 2011, will carry a starting price tag of 30,000 pounds (about Rs 21 lakh).
Using artificial intelligence techniques, Jaguar Land Rover self-learning car will offer a comprehensive array of services to the driver, courtesy of a new learning algorithm that recognises who is in the car and learns their preferences and driving style, the company said.
Tata Motors-owned marquee brand Land Rover today reported its best ever monthly sales in the UK market where it is based, with 11,300 units sold in March, up 67 per cent from the same month last year.
Land Rover on Tuesday said its first diesel hybrid sports utility vehicle will hit the roads by 2013 for which testing of the prototype named 'range e' will start this year-end.
Geoff Polites, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover who is credited with successfully turning around the company and steering it through its $2.3 billion sale to Tata Motors, has died.Polites, 60, breathed his last in Melbourne after battling serious illness for two years. Ford Australia president Bill Osborne said Polites had battled ill health for the past two years but remained determined to return the Ford-owned Jaguar and Land Rover brands to profitability.
The turnaround at Tata-owned car-maker Jaguar Land Rover accelerated in the July-September quarter as booming demand in China helped drive a 30 per cent rise in sales, the company announced in a statement.
Prices of the Range Rover V8, Range Rover Sports V8 and Jaguar F-Type will be reduced by an average of 200,000 yuan (Rs 20.4 lakh) from August 1. Every fourth car made by Jaguar Land Rover is sold in China.
Tata Motors owned Land Rover is likely to be manufactured in China, through a joint venture with Chinese automobile major Chery Automobile Co Ltd, and is awaiting final clearance, a report said.
The vehicle will be powered by a 3.0-litre TDV6 diesel engine, featuring an 8-speed automatic transmission.
At an estimated 1.9 billion in losses and over 5,000 UK organisations affected, the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack has been labelled the most economically damaging cyber incident in UK history, exposing the deep vulnerability of interconnected supply chains.
Barely days before it launches the world's cheapest car, Tatas were on Wednesday named the preferred bidder for Ford's British luxury brands -- Jaguar and Land Rover.
The company is developing a new model in its research and development centre in the United Kingdom, which will primarily address the defence needs of most countries around the globe, including India, said a senior executive from Land Rover.
India's luxury auto market is rebounding after a slow start to 2025, with GST 2.0 emerging as the main catalyst.
Jaguar Land Rover has reached an agreement with Tata Motors to be an exclusive importer of these premium saloon cars and utility vehicles.
The passenger vehicle (PV) business of Tata Motors, which also includes the electric vehicle and Jaguar Land Rover businesses, post-demerger is now valued at Rs 1.45 trillion.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday visited a Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover factory in the West Midlands region of England that is known as the flagship Indian investment in the UK.
The all-new Land Rover is not just a capable car on different terrains, but also makes for an exceptionally comfortable ride experience, says P Tharyan
Sunday Times says top European official in sight. The current chief executive is Geoff Polities, an Australian car industry veteran.
The report quoted unnamed sources at Land Rover as saying, "It is definitely Tata. There is one final meeting and so long as there is no last minute hitches, which are not expected, then an announcement will be made on Friday." The final details would be worked out in the next six weeks, it added. The report also quoted a union official as saying that Mahindra's bid fell flat because of links to a private equity firm as the Indian firm was working with Apollo.
British car maker won its law suite against Chinese automaker Geely over using trade mark name "luhu".
The British marque had earlier announced to add 275 new jobs at its production facility at Solihull in West Midlands to meet rising demand after sales improved for several months. Land Rover currently employs 9,500 people and supports a further 40,000 jobs in the supply chain.
Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover has announced plans to shed 200 jobs across its UK operations but claimed that the redundancies were not connected with the economic downturn or slump in car sales.
Less than a year after acquiring Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus, Tata Group appears close to taking over the reins of Ford's British marques - Land Rover and Jaguar, for which it is believed to have submitted a detailed offer of more than $2 billion. The home-grown business conglomerate is understood to be leading the race for the two brands at close of second-round of bidding on Friday, media reports said.
The Solihull plant employs over 5,000 people and the "extra 275 agency positions are required to start immediately" to boost further the demand for the new vehicle.
Ford Motor Co on Wednesday said it expects the sale of its two European marques Jaguar and Land Rover, in which India's Tata Motors has evinced interest, to be through either by this year-end or early next year.
The coffin of the senior royal will be loaded into the Land Rover for an eight-minute procession to the gates of St George's Chapel, where the funeral is to begin with a national minute's silence at 1500 local time on April 17.
Tata Motors' commercial vehicle (CV) business debuted on the BSE on Wednesday, completing the automaker's long-planned demerger into separate listed entities for its passenger and CV operations.
While analysts reacted negatively to a drop in the operating margin, JLR has demonstrated a strong global growth.
While declining to comment on the intended takeover bid for JLR by Tata Motors, another group company, Myers said the relationship was close to four years old.
The Tatas are not alone in the race to take over British car makers Land Rover and Jaguar. Apart from the Tatas, three private equity funds and two other trading companies are expected to join the race for the British luxury car makers.
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