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...Car trouble The group’s stronghold in British industry was cemented with the 2008 purchase of Jaguar Land Rover from Ford by Tata Motors....
...In 2016 the UK-based carmaker sued Jiangling Motor Corporation for its Landwind X7 sport utility vehicle, which the company claimed bore extremely similar resemblance to the Range Rover Evoque....
...The Jaguar F Pace SUV, launched with aplomb and a stunt that involved driving a loop-the-loop in 2016, sits in the same price brackets as the Range Rover Evoque and the Land Rover Discovery Sport....
...Meanwhile at Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors’ main breadwinner since its 2008 takeover, the focus is on equipping the business for the electric age....
...On Monday British-based Jaguar Land Rover said it would shut its Solihull plant in the Midlands, which employs 9,000 people, for two weeks this month mainly because of a 46 per cent sales decline in China...
...Others such as BMW and Jaguar Land Rover are emphasising flexible platforms that can accommodate conventional, hybrid or electric engines....
...Much like its new electric car, Jaguar Land Rover does not make much noise....
...The company has spent £11bn in capital expenditure since 2010 coming up with new products that make use of lightweight aluminium technologies, such as the new Land Rover Discovery Sport and the Jaguar XE...
...JLR, by contrast, makes operating margins close to 10 per cent, having built on the success of products conceived during the Ford era, such as the Range Rover Evoque....
...Annual sales at Land Rover increased 119 per cent between 2008, when Tata acquired Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford, and 2014, according to data from LMC Automotive....
...In February Jaguar Land Rover said the Range Rover Evoque, the luxury compact SUV built in Halewood, Mersyside, was the fastest-selling vehicle ever....
...Jaguar Land Rover has emerged as a prospective buyer for the circuit that is struggling to compete with the new money and tracks of the Middle East and Asia....
...Jaguar Land Rover’s decision to consider Slovakia as a base for building luxury sport utility vehicles and four-wheel-drive cars may have raised eyebrows on shop floors in the UK’s West Midlands....
...Since the launch of the highly successful Range Rover Evoque in 2011, Jaguar has lacked the sales and profitability of its Land Rover sister brand....
...But the success has been driven by the Land Rover side of the company – in particular the Range Rover Evoque, a sporty 4x4....
...A ship that was deliberately beached off Southampton was carrying 1,200 sports cars and upmarket 4x4s made by UK-based manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, as well as BMW Minis and JCB diggers....
...Carmakers including Tata’s Jaguar Land Rover, BMW and Toyota unit Lexus have slashed their prices in response....
...The luxury British business, which Tata acquired in 2008, accounted for all the upside as the launch of a new Range Rover model and the Range Rover Sport spurred sales and helped operating margins rise to...
...Happily, whenever we were on the road, drivers showed us a mix of astonishment and respect – apart from one occasion, when we were brushed aside by a gleaming white Range Rover, a hugely incongruous machine...
...Sales of the company’s Land Rover sports utility vehicles have been especially strong in emerging markets such as China, while the group said that it did not expect to see future sales growth affected by...
...He presses these on to the bonnet of an Evoque, Land Rover’s compact sport utility vehicle, then carefully pulls the strip away....
...Tata bought Britain’s Jaguar Land Rover in 2008, and Mahindra acquired Ssangyong of South Korea two years later. Such global forays will continue but now they must also face the threats at home....
...“It’s [like] the first day at school,” said the 21-year-old as she prepared to begin fitting interior mirrors to Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Freelander sport utility vehicles as they rolled down the...
...Companies that have been late to launch local manufacturing in China – including Renault, Jaguar Land Rover, and Volvo – outlined plans to do so soon....
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