Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has agreed a deal with GE Finance to access the funds tied up in new cars in transit. The deal effectively gives JLR £170 million working capital. Car makers have been begging lines of credit from wherever they can in the last year as the recession has bitten hard in to […]
Land Rover sales up 89 per cent
Land Rover has posted impressive sales figures for October with sales up by 89% in comparison to October 2008. Land Rover has suffered really badly from both the current economic meltdown and the world’s obsession with all things ‘Eco’. The big 4x4s produced by Land Rover seem to have been the main target of the […]
Range Rover Sport by Prestige – No, thanks.
UK tuner Prestige has launched a tarted Range Rover Sport with new bumpers, louvres and wheel arch extensions. The ultimate overkill body kit for the RRS. When I bought a Cayenne a few years ago I weighed it up against the other options. Eventually I was left with a short-list of just two cars – […]
New Land Rover Defender – Project Icon
Land Rover are working on a new Land Rover Defender – Project Icon – based on the current Discovery and due to market in 2012. Yesterday we wrote about the future of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and noted that – despite the new models JLR are planning – one model that would continue would be […]
Jaguar Land Rover – The Real Future
Jaguar Land Rover are investing £800 million in new technology to create a range of world beating Jaguars and Land Rovers. Yesterday we reported on two bits of news from JLR. First up was confirmation of our story from last month that the Range Rover LRX will debut in 2010 and go on sale in […]
Jaguar Land Rover factory closure
Tata – owners of Jaguar Land Rover – has announced they will close either the Solihull or Castle Bromwich production plants. Update 25/9/09: We’ve taken a second – more in-depth – look at JLR’s future. It’s actually much more positive than this story suggests. First comes the good news – the new Range Rover LRX […]
Range Rover LRX announced
Land Rover has confirmed they will be making the baby Range Rover – the Range Rover LRX. The LRX will debut in 2010 and go on sale in 2011. It’s been in the melting pot for some time, the Range Rover LRX. But we didn’t know until today – when Land Rover officially acknowledged that […]
Range Rover Sport Autobiography Limited Edition
Land Rover has announced the Range Rover Sport Autobiography Limited Edition and rear seat luxury options on the Range Rover. Land Rover are bringing their range of updated 2010 cars to Frankfurt, and a surprise addition is the announcement of a limited edition Range Rover Sport – the Range Rover Sport Autobiography. Land Rover are […]
Land Rover LRX in 2010
Update 24/9/09: Land Rover has now confirmed that the Range Rover LRX will debut in 2010 and go on sale in 2011. We reported back in March that Land Rover had received some funding to go towards the development of its LRX Concept, the ‘Eco Land Rover’. We guess that Land Rover got that even […]
Jaguar Land Rover sorts its finance
Jaguar Land Rover owners Tata have been waiting for Lord Many and his minions to stump up a loan guarantee to help the company move forward all year. But there seem to have been some pretty big obstacles in the way. Initially the Government wanted to impose a board member on JLR – which Tata […]