Land Rover has launched the Range Rover Evoque in India. Starts at 47.5 lakh (around £60k) with choice of petrol and diesel engines available. Yes, a starting price of around £60k for a Range Rover Evoque in India seems rather steep (and that’s plus Octroi – local sales tax). After all, in the UK you can […]
India turns the screw on luxury car makers
The Indian government has increased import duty on CKD (complete knock down) car imports to 30% to persuade car makers to build in India. India’s economy is growing almost exponentially, as a result of which it has a big, rising middle-class with much the same aspirations as the middle-class in the West. Those aspirations include […]
2011 Freelander 2: Made in India (almost)
Tata has confirmed that Land Rover will be assembling the Freelander 2 in India from 2011. Whenever we’ve discussed the rise and rise of JLR in the last year – such as when we waxed lyrical (ish) on the future plans of Jaguar Land Rover – we’ve always been of the opinion that Tata would […]
Jaguar Land Rover first Showroom in India
As we reported a couple of months ago, Tata has been appointed as importers for Jaguar Land Rover in India (how did that happen?!) and have already launched web sites for both Jaguar and Land Rover for the Indian market, and have today opened the first Flagship Jaguar Land Rover Showroom at Ceejay House in […]
Jaguar Land Rover open in India
Well, I suppose it was always going to happen. After all, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), although still considered by most to be a traditional British car maker, is in fact owned by Indian Conglomerate Tata. And Tata has announced this morning that Jaguar Cars and Land Rovers are to go on sale in India. Not […]