You don’t expect members of the Royal Family to go out decked in logos of designer items, even if they are actually wearing them. You don’t see the Queen or the Duchess of Cambridge sporting something as showy and obvious as a Vuitton bag. But this discretion towards labels does not seem to apply when it comes to their ride…
Read moreAfter helping Jaguar Land Rover win Manufacturer of the Year titles twice in less than week, the company’s Halewood plant is certainly in celebration mode. On June 17, Jaguar Land Rover was awarded Britain’s Manufacturer of the Year at the Made in the UK Awards. The following Thursday, the company, represented by the Halewood plant, won the Manufacturer of the…
Read moreJaguar Land Rover took legal action against Chinese carmaker Jiangling Motors’s production of the Landwind X7, which is an alleged copycat of JLR’s best-selling Range Rover Evoque. The X7, which was revealed at the Guangzhou motor show in November 2014, looks very much like the Evoque, to the point that casual observers may have a hard time telling them apart. Ralf…
Read moreJaguar Land Rover opened its new manufacturing facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Located in Itatiaia, it is the company’s first wholly-owned facility overseas and is part of its global expansion strategy. Prior to this, Jaguar Land Rover opened its Chinese joint venture factory in 2014. The new factory is designed to build Range Rover Evoque and Land Discovery Sport and…
Read moreAccording to Business Secretary Sajid Javid, the government will do whatever it takes to make sure that the company’s Coventry expansion plans will be a success. In a statement to the Telegraph during his visit to the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick, “What we’ve seen from Jaguar Land Rover – in past five years especially – is a tripling of…
Read moreAfter a vote by the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC), Jaguar Land Rover was granted exclusive negotiations in its bid to buy the circuit. The deal was given by Silverstone owners. The vote was decided at the April 7 meeting of the BRDC. The deal is rumoured to be worth around GBP 33 million. The deal specifies that BRDC will still own the…
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