Talks have taken place between Tata – owners of Jaguar Land Rover – and the Kuwait Investment Dar – owners of Aston Martin. We reported a year ago that Aston Martin needed a big car maker behind it to have any chance of survival, and just last week the world caught up with that story […]
Jaguar Land Rover sales up 10% in October
Jaguar Land Rover has revealed another rise in sales for October 2012, selling 10 per cent more cars than a year ago. Jaguar Land Rover has reported sales of 25,176 cars in October 2012, an increase of 10 per cent on last year, and sales for 2012 up by an impressive 35 per cent compared […]
Range Rover Evoque Desert Warrior 3
The British Excite Rally Raid Team has taken delivery of the new Range Rover Evoque based Desert Warrior 3 off-road race car. [nggallery id=1300 template=customlinks] Last year we reported that the British Excite Rally Raid Team was planning to take the Range Rover Evoque Dakar rallying and now, a year on, the Excite team has taken […]
Jaguar Land Rover doubles its profits
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 to share more platforms. But you already knew that.
As Jaguar and Land Rover expand their model range and move to aluminium construction, they plan to share more platforms. Jaguar has been using an aluminium platform for the XJ for some time – long before the latest XJ came along. The aluminium platform the XJ uses is just the start for Jaguar Land Rover, […]
New Range Rover (2013): The Reviews (+video)
Media reviews for the 2013 Range Rover have been going on in Morocco this week, so we have a round-up and video. [nggallery id=1178 template=customlinks] The first review drives of the new Range Rover have been going on in Morocco this week, and the praise for Land Rover’s new flagship have been pretty much universal. Sadly, Cars […]
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 […]
New Range Rover gets Bridge of Weir Leather
The new Range Rover (2013) is getting its sumptuous leather interior courtesy of Bridge of Weir Low Carbon Leathers [nggallery id=1178 template=customlinks] To be honest, where exactly the leather that swathes the interior of the new Range Rover comes from is not something that is high on the list of ‘must-knows’ for prospective Range Rover owners. But it […]
Churchill’s Land Rover sells for £129,000
A Land Rover presented to Sir Winston Churchill on his 80th birthday has sold at auction for £129,000. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, probably the greatest Prime Minister the UK has ever had, was 80 in 1954, prompting Rover to present the great man with a custom Land Rover so he could be chauffeured round his Chartwell Estate. The […]
2013 Range Rover lands in the Middle East
The new Range Rover – fresh from its world debut at the 2012 Paris Motor Show – has now arrived in one of its key markets – the Middle East. [nggallery id=1178 template=customlinks] The 2013 Range Rover looks set to keep the Range Rover crown as the luxury SUV of choice for the wealthy, with […]