Jaguar And Land Rover Sales Slowdown Puts Tata In The Red

Jaguar And Land Rover Sales Slowdown Puts Tata In The Red

INDIAN AUTO MAKER Tata Motors’ newest acquisitions, Jaguar and Land Rover, appear to be doing more harm than good for the company right now.
Despite strong sales of Tata products in India, the two British marques have been hit hard by the economic downturn and are spreading red ink over Tata’s books.

Tata’s end of financial year results, [...]

2012 Range Rover LRX Hybrid Confirmed For Production

2012 Range Rover LRX Hybrid Confirmed For Production

ORIGINALLY UNVEILED last year at the Detroit Auto Show, the Land Rover LRX offered a stunning looking at how far the British manufacturer can take the brand’s iconic styling, maintaining its traditional design elements while pushing it toward an ultra-modern look.

Now, according to UK magazine Auto Express and thanks to a £27 million loan from the [...]

2010 Range Rover Vogue On Sale In UK In July, Australia In September

2010 Range Rover Vogue On Sale In UK In July, Australia In September

LAND ROVER HAS TODAY announced that the 2010 Range Rover will hit UK showrooms in July, and pricing for the UK Range Rover line-up is now available.

Aesthetically, the 2010 Range Rover features subtle updates to the body, including a revised grille and bumper, along with a new LED indicator system in the headlights.

Motivation for the [...]

2010 Land Rover LR4 Details And Images Revealed

2010 Land Rover LR4 Details And Images Revealed

Land Rover’s LR4 had some big shoes to fill, with the outgoing LR3 having bagged over 100 international awards throughout the course of its five-year life.

However, with a new engine, a refreshed exterior, a more luxurious interior and revisions to the chassis and suspension, the brand-spanking new LR4 looks to be well on its way [...]

2010 Range Rover Sport Revealed, Footballers’ Wives Rejoice

2010 Range Rover Sport Revealed, Footballers’ Wives Rejoice

Land Rover has released images of the most recent update to hit its 2010 catalogue, with the Range Rover Sport, the latest to receive a face-lift.

The British automaker has chosen this month’s New York Auto Show as the venue to launch its updated range.

The new Sport has received a more extensive overhaul than its less [...]

Jaguar Land Rover May Get £270m Loan, £500m More Sought From British Govt

Jaguar Land Rover May Get £270m Loan, £500m More Sought From British Govt

The folks in Detroit aren’t the only ones in trouble, as Europe’s car industry is also feeling the global economic pinch in a big way. PSA Peugeot Citroen recently accepted a €3 billion loan from the French government, and now Jaguar Land Rover is about to receive its first cash injection.

The European Investment Bank is [...]

Stormer Kit For Ranger Rover Sport Now Available In Australia

Stormer Kit For Ranger Rover Sport Now Available In Australia

Land Rover Australia has announced today that its Stormer styling kit is now available, bringing new, more aggressive styling enhancements to the Range Rover lines.

The Stormer kit is a limited edition factory-fitted option available for the Range Rover Sport TDV8 and Supercharged models.

The kit includes Stormer front and rear bumpers, extended rear spoiler, body-coloured side cladding, [...]

Land Rover To Receive Grant Offer From UK Government To Build New Model

Land Rover To Receive Grant Offer From UK Government To Build New Model

Land Rover’s Christmases may have all come at once today, with the UK Government confirming that a grant offer of up to £27 million (AUD$57.6m) will be made available to the company to assist in the production of an all-new model.

The Tata-owned British carmaker is yet to make a final decision on whether to go ahead [...]

Jaguar Land Rover Receives $1.3 Billion Order From China

Jaguar Land Rover Receives $1.3 Billion Order From China

The folks in the Indian and British automotive industry will no doubt be cheering right now, with news that Tata Group has inked a deal with China for the supply of some 10,000 Land Rovers and 3000 Jaguars over the next three years.

The deal is worth a much needed AUD$1.3 billion dollars and was secured [...]

Concept802 Releases Range Rover Sport Platinum R Wide Body Kit

Concept802 Releases Range Rover Sport Platinum R Wide Body Kit

Based in the UK and specialising in styling luxury vehicles, owner Barry Graham says Concept802’s customers will get only the perfect product from his team of experienced experts and engineers.

From what we’re seeing here, though, what Barry actually means to say is: “We’re going to take your expensive car and go wild with massive wheels and [...]

ARK ReDesign Developing 3-Door Range Rover Sport

ARK ReDesign Developing 3-Door Range Rover Sport

Wet your pants when you saw the astoundingly butch 2004 Range Stormer concept, but couldn’t care less when they added two more doors and turned it into the Range Rover Sport? ARK ReDesign just might have something for you…

ARK is reportedly in the midst of developing its own three-door conversion for the Range Rover Sport. [...]

Jaguar Land Rover Need $1billion From Tata To Survive

Jaguar Land Rover Need $1billion From Tata To Survive

Tata may need to pump up to US$1 billiion into Jaguar Land Rover to keep the show afloat. Having already forked out US$2.3 billion during the acquisition, Tata could be forced to spend further to ensure the British brands survive the current global economic meltdown.

It’s a big ask, but a Tata spokesman recently explained [...]

Jaguar and Land Rover Looking For Government Bailout

Jaguar and Land Rover Looking For Government Bailout

Car manufacturers everywhere are suffering under the double whammy of the global credit crisis and stalled sales. It comes as no surprise then that luxury marques are also feeling the brunt of the economic storm. British manufacturers Jaguar and Land Rover, recently acquired by Tata, have now joined the ranks of those in desperate need of financial aid in [...]

Ferrari, Land Rover, Rolls-Royce & Suzuki Not Going To 2009 Detroit Auto Show

Ferrari, Land Rover, Rolls-Royce & Suzuki Not Going To 2009 Detroit Auto Show

It used to be North America’s premier motor show, a celebration of all things four-wheeled held in the capital city of car-making, Detroit. Nowadays things are a little different. The economic slowdown has put the pinch on several automakers, discouraging the launch of new products and lessening the justification for spending hundreds of thousands of [...]

Tata Cuts Land Rover and Jaguar Production

Tata Cuts Land Rover and Jaguar Production

A weakening demand for SUVs and high-end vehicles in general, will see Tata cut production on recently acquired marques Land Rover and Jaguar. Three hundred workers from the main Land Rover factory in Solihull are to be re-deployed to the Castle Broomwich assembly line, where the Jaguar X-Type is produced.

Five shifts will be cut in total, [...]

German nutcases construct V16-powered Land Rover based behemoth

German nutcases construct V16-powered Land Rover based behemoth

What do you get when you combine two Rover V8s, a vintage Land Rover 109 LWB and a tonne of bespoke engineering? You get a Bell Aurens Longnose, that’s what. The brainchild of Deutschlander Thomas Bell the Longnose is perhaps the most extreme Land Rover based vehicle we’ve come across, with its huge body extension [...]

Comment Spam: The New Advertising?

Comment Spam: The New Advertising?

I’m not sure whether we should be flattered that the owners of Jaguar and Land Rover are openly visiting The Motor Report, or insulted at the attempt to bypass paid advertising on TMR!

TMR’s Dan McCoey likes to keep a close eye on things around here, so when he stumbled across this piece of comment spam [...]

Ford’s sale of Jaguar Land Rover complete as Tata appoints new CEO

Ford’s sale of Jaguar Land Rover complete as Tata appoints new CEO

It has been a long running saga but it now looks as though Ford’s sale of luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover to India’s Tata motors is complete. It was last August that Ford decided to explore its options for the Jaguar Land Rover business it owned.

“The sale is the culmination of Ford’s decision last [...]

Geoff Polites Australian boss of Jaguar Land Rover dies aged 60

Geoff Polites Australian boss of Jaguar Land Rover dies aged 60

Geoff Polites, chief executive officer of Jaguar Land Rover, has died peacefully in Australia at the age of 60. A former car dealer, Mr Polites spent much of his 40 year career in the automotive industry working his way up through the ranks at Ford and its subsidiaries, including a stint as the head of [...]

Landrover Defender 110 SVX Special Edition - Australian Specification

Landrover Defender 110 SVX Special Edition - Australian Specification

Land Rover, all going well will be under the stewardship of India’s Tata Motors sometime around the middle of this year and it looks like Tata are buying in just as the iconic English brand stages a comeback. Land Rover is experiencing record sales globally and strong growth locally, with Land Rover Australia starting this [...]

Its official - Tata buys Jaguar and Land Rover

Its official - Tata buys Jaguar and Land Rover

Ford Motor Company made the long awaited announcement last Wednesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Jaguar Land Rover operations to Tata Motors.

The transaction is the culmination of Ford’s decision last August to explore strategic options for the Jaguar Land Rover business, as the company accelerates its focus on its [...]

Tata raise $3 billion for purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover

Tata raise $3 billion for purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover

There was a time when $3 billion dollars sounded like an impossible amount of money. Now our major banks make profits far greater than this each year and it really doesn’t seem like a lot to pay for two of the world’s more iconic and well known brands.

An anonymous source inside Tata Motors is reported [...]

Production Land Rover LRX to keep concept style interior

Production Land Rover LRX to keep concept style interior

One of the most popular concept vehicles over the last year would have to be the Land Rover LRX. The little Land Rover has proven so popular that Land Rover are intending to manufacture a production version for the likes of you and I to buy.

Normally, quite a few of the more outrageous concept car [...]

Land Rover LRX in black and silver

Land Rover LRX in black and silver

Having just returned from the Melbourne Motor Show, which featured Land Rovers very cool white LRX concept, it comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that there is a twin, this time in black and silver. Land Rover has created the second LRX to showcase just how a production LRX, should there ever [...]

Land Rover LRX at the 2008 Melbourne Motor Show

Land Rover LRX at the 2008 Melbourne Motor Show

Land Rover brought their LRX concept to Melbourne. Land Rover has conceived the LRX with new technologies, lightweight design and a turbo-diesel hybrid powertrain, and say that the three-door LRX addresses the needs of a changing world with a car that is very much a Land Rover, but a very different type of Land Rover [...]

Jaguar Land Rover sale set for early March

Jaguar Land Rover sale set for early March

The ’sale of Jaguar Land Rover’ saga continues this week, with news overnight that Ford and Tata have reached agreement over the sale and the takeover now looks likely to take place on the 5th or 6th of March.

This follows on from lasts weeks report that Tata were suspected to be considering the immediate sale [...]

Tata planning to sell Jaguar and keep Land Rover?

Tata planning to sell Jaguar and keep Land Rover?

Ford’s pending sale of Jaguar and Land Rover took another turn overnight with the suggestion that Tata intend to sell off Jaguar almost immediately after their purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford.

According to Edmunds, a source has revealed that Tata has already purchased 450 acres outside of Delhi, and plans to build [...]

2008 Jaguar XF - 10,000 pre-orders suggest the cat is out of the bag

2008 Jaguar XF - 10,000 pre-orders suggest the cat is out of the bag

We’ve said it before, the Jaguar XF is exactly the car that Jaguar need to revive their flagging sales. A stunning combination of luxury car and sports saloon, it brings some character to the segment dominated by the staid (but highly capable) German offerings.

News overnight suggests that Jaguar is holding 10,000 pre-orders for their new [...]

Jaguar and Land Rover record combined profit

Jaguar and Land Rover record combined profit

The road ahead for Jaguar Land Rover appears a little less rocky. According to the UK’s Just-Auto, the combined businesses of Jaguar and Land Rover have staged a turn-around over the last twelve months, to the tune of some $US1.6 billion.

Land Rover is said to have made a profit of $US1.2 billion last year, while [...]

Landrover LRX Concept video tour

Landrover LRX Concept video tour

The Land Rover LRX Concept is due to make its debut on the 13th of January at the Detroit Motor Show, however Autocar have been afforded a special preview of the very cool looking SUV prior to the show. Not a whole lot is known about the LRX but it is described by Land Rover [...]

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