Jaguar Land Rover’s Castle Bromwich Plant – currently closed due to Codid-19 lockdown – won’t reopen until August, as JLR grab £560 million loan from China. Car manufacturing in the UK is returning to some sort of ‘New Normal’ as lockdown restrictions in the UK ease a little, but not everyonje is rushing to reopen […]
New Land Rover Defender heads in to BATTLE against Covid-19
Jaguar Land Rover is deploying its vehicles across the globe to help the fight against Covid-19, including 27 new Land Rover Defenders handed to the British Red Cross. The car industry stands to suffer economically even more than most from the fallout from the Covid-19 outbreak locking down customers and halting production. But they’re not […]
Jaguar Land Rover Project Vector is an ELECTRIC Urban ‘Pod’
Jaguar Land Rover has revealed a new electric Pod vehicle designed for urban mobility and autonomous use with a skateboard platform. What is the future for cars as we enter a new world of mobility and autonomy, where it seems to be the received wisdom that private car ownership will wane and we’ll use electric […]
Jaguar I-Pace production SUSPENDED as battery shortage hits Jaguar
Jaguar has had to suspend production of the electric I-Pace as battery supply problems bite, just as it has for Mercedes and Audi. We’ll all be driving electric cars after 2035, say the UK government, so we have to hope battery technology and production has moved on substantially by then. Because at the moment it’s […]
Jaguar Land Rover to deliver 700 electric Jaguar I-Pace for Public Sector staff
Jaguar Land Rover is supplying 700 Jaguar I-Pace to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to lease to public sector employees across the UK. If we’re all going to dive headlong in to electric cars, then there has to be progress in making that affordable and accessible. And one good way, which doesn’t seem to have […]
Jaguar Land Rover plan to get you to ‘Walk’ while you drive
Jaguar Land Rover has developed ‘morphable’ car seats which use a series of actuators to mimic walking while you’re driving to improve back health. We’ve all driven cars which leave us with an aching back after even a short journey, and we’ve all driven cars with seats so good (Volvo in particular) we get out […]
Jaguar XE Reims Edition – it’s Blue, and there are just 200
The Jaguar XE Reims Edition is a Limited Edition Jaguar XE with a French Racing Blue paint job celebrating Jaguar’s racing history. There’s no arguing about Jaguar’s storied history on the track, and it’s a powerful marketing tool when selling performance models, and a halo-caster for more prosaic models in the Jaguar range too. But […]
Jaguar I-Pace gets a bit more range and tech improvements – but it’ll mean a visit to a Jaguar dealer
The Jaguar I-Pace is getting a software update adding a bit more range, better regenerative braking and more. But it’ll mean a visit to a Jaguar dealer. It’s just a week since Jaguar announced SOTA (software-over-the-air) updates are now standard across its range, although existing compatible models will need a visit to a Jaguar dealer […]
2020 Jaguar F-Type OFFICIALLY revealed
The new Jaguar F-Type is revealed as Jaguar give their sportiest model a bit of an angry makeover and a revised range of engines. We had sort of hoped that Jaguar might do something a bit radical with the F-Type, and give new Jaguar designer Julian Thomson a chance to stamp his mark on Ian […]
Jaguar Land Rover delivers SOTA (software-over-the-air) updates to all models
Jaguar Land Rover is now delivering SOTA (software-over-the-air) updates for all its new models, and free upgrades for compatible existing models. We’re all very used to the software on our smartphones updating periodically as improvements are made, but, for many car makers, any required updates have meant a visit to a dealer – and sometimes […]