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May 23, 2013

Jaguar Land Rover: Too expensive to build cars in India

Photo of 2013 Range Rover and Jaguar F-Type

Tata boss Ratan Tata has said that building Jaguar Land Rover in India is impossible at the moment because of silly taxes. With the rise and rise of Jaguar Land Rover, you’d imagine that full scale production of both Jaguar and Land Rover models would be a given in India. But it seems not. Despite [...]

Jaguar Land Rover doubles its profits

Photo of Jaguar F-Type & 2013 Range Rover

Jaguar Land Rover has reported sales up by 29 per cent in the second quarter of their financial year and profits up by 100 per cent. It’s a rough car market out there – especially in Europe – but Jaguar Land Rover continues to grow its sales with revenues up by over 13 per cent, [...]

Jaguar Land Rover Virtual Showroom

Photo of Jaguar Land Rover Virtual Showroom

Jaguar Land Rover has developed a Virtual Showroom allowing customers to engage and interact with almost life-size cars. If you were at the debut of the 2013 Range Rover and new Jaguar F-Type in Paris last month you may well have seen Jaguar Land Rover’s new Virtual Showroom on display,  and it looks like JLR [...]

Jaguar F-Type & 2013 Range Rover LIVE at Paris 2012

Photo of Jaguar F-Type & 2013 Range Rover

Jaguar Land Rover will officially debut the Jaguar F-Type and 2013 Range Rover at Paris 2012 on Thursday – LIVE on Cars UK. We’ve already had the official reveal of the 2013 Range Rover, and the new Jaguar F-Type slipped out last week too, quickly followed by a single official photo from Jaguar. But the [...]

Jaguar Land Rover to build cars in China

Photo of Freelander 2 Facelift 2013

Jaguar Land Rover has revealed it is going to build cars in China, starting with either the Freelander 2 or Evoque. Jaguar Land Rover has revealed that it going to build cars outside the UK for the first time (as opposed to re-assembling Freelander 2 CKD kits as it does in India) in a plant just north of Shanghai. [...]

Jaguar Land Rover production in Saudi Arabia – but not for a long time

Photo of 2013 Range Rover in desert

Jaguar Land Rover are mulling the idea of setting up an assembly plant in Saudi Arabia next to a new aluminium smelting plant. When you’re Ratan Tata, and you not only run one of the biggest conglomerates in the world but also the culturally British Jaguar Land Rover, the world tends to listen when you speak. So [...]

Jaguar Land Rover creates another 1100 jobs

Photo of Jaguar XF Sportbrake on Mountain Roads

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) are creating a further 1,100 jobs in the Jaguar plant at Castle Bromwich to cope with anticipated demand. Last week we said we were expecting an announcement from Jaguar Land Rover about production at Castle Bromwich following a deal with Unions to secure new working practices. And this seems to be [...]

Jaguar Land Rover profits up 34 per cent to £1.5 billion

Jaguar Land Rover Sales

Just four years after Tata took over what looked like a basket case in Jaguar Land Rover, profits have hit £1.5 billion. It’s become the norm for Jaguar Land Rover to report ever improving profits and sales, but the news that JLR made profits of £1.5 billion in the year to end of March 2012 [...]

Jaguar Land Rover to spend additional £250 million a year with UK suppliers

JLR Spend £1 billion UK suppliers

The Range Rover Evoque phenomenon continues with Jaguar Land Rover announcing an extra £250 million additional annual spend with UK suppliers. Just last week we had the news that Land Rover’s Freelander 2 had hit sales of 300,000 since its launch in 2007, but if the Range Rover Evoque continues selling the way it has that figure will be [...]

JLR (Jaguar Land Rover): 1,000 new jobs at Halewood

JLR production line Halewood

Jaguar Land Rover are creating 1,000 new jobs at their Halewood plant to keep up with orders for the Range Rover Evoque and Freelander 2. We’ve reported umpteen times on Land Rover’s order book for the Range Rover Evoque, and how the stylish new entry-level Range Rover has scored a direct hit with buyers, And that’s now [...]