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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, [...]
INTERESTING AND UNEXPECTED news from Tata that around 80 percent of Tata Nano orders are for the top-end model.
With 203,000 orders on the books so far, the majority of buyers have opted for the top-end model’s features, such as air conditioning, central locking and front power windows, despite the 40 percent premium they’ll pay on top [...]
Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata’s dream of revolutionising the way the people of India move themselves from A to B is set to come true, with some 203,000 paid orders taken and 610,000 booking forms sold in the weeks following the launch of the 2009 Tata Nano.
India’s largest carmaker, Tata Motors revealed the production version [...]
Chairman of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata comes out of the new Tata “Nano” car in New Delhi, 10 January 2008.
Nano pre-order sales officially began on the first of April and already over 51,000 orders have been registered. The first randomly selected owners however won’t receive their cars until deliveries begin in July.
Waydahminnit, randomly selected [...]
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 [...]
Tata Motors has only just this week unleashed the revolutionary 2009 Tata Nano upon the sub-continent and now, according to Financial Times, the Indian automaker may be looking at offering the Tata Nano – most likely the Europe-bound Europa version – on the American market as early as 2011.
Founder Ratan Tata said the company is [...]
It looks as though today is set to be remembered as the day the automotive world stood still for the 2009 Tata Nano, with a flood of information, stories and video emerging on the interwebs.
The lucky sods over at British mag AutoCar have had a spin in the Tata Nano, and despite what you might [...]
As predicted by its own dealers, the demand for the Tata Nano has proven to be so great that the Indian carmaker has decided the only way to keep up is to sell the first batch by lottery.
With 100,000 units making up the first run of Nanos, you’d think the odds of winning the right [...]
India’s road-revolution is about to begin, with Tata Motors set to offer the 2009 Tata Nano on the sub-continent from today.
The little people mover – predicted to dramatically transform the driving landscape in India – is slated to go for an even 100,000 rupees (AU$2850).
For your dollars, you’ll get the most bare-bones car the 21st [...]
Alongside the Tata Nano Europa at Geneva was another intriguing debut for the Indian company.
By teaming up with renowned design house Pininfarina, Tata Motors has produced the stylishly-understated Prima sedan; a model that Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata says will mark the automaker’s coming-of-age as a world-class car company.
Officially a concept, the Prima is virtually [...]
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 [...]
When Tata Motors first whipped the sheet off its sub-$5000 Nano microcar at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, other car makers were aghast that a car could be built for such a low price.
But if last year’s reveal was merely unsettling for the opposition, then the reveal of the Nano Europa at this year’s Show [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s been a long haul for Jaguar. For decades it has performed in a less than stellar fashion, soldiering on with product that has been stuck in its own stylish time warp: carriages for gentleman who had long since started shopping elsewhere.
Like Aston Martin, Jaguar was bailed out when Ford purchased them as a facet [...]
Tata Motors is one auto manufacturer that is truly on the move. Having recently received the green light for its purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover the Indian manufacturer of utilitarian vehicles and the upcoming Nano ‘peoples car’ has according to Automotive News set its sights on another European icon - Pininfarina.
Pininfarina, the design house [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Are you concerned about an Indian company owning the keys to Jaguar’s front door? Maybe you think they won’t have the vision to see beyond the cheap and cheerful, or that Jaguar will be lost in the new custodians readily admitted obsession with Land Rover?
Well, news just out suggests that fears such as these may [...]
Tata’s Nano needs little introduction. Touted as the world’s cheapest car it is set to revolutionise transport in India, bringing the car to the people, making this a true ‘people’s car’.
In the lead-up to its on-sale date it is proving difficult to get top dollar for second hand econo cars in India as the Nano [...]
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 [...]
Tata’s new Nano ‘peoples car’ isn’t due to arrive in Indian showrooms until the end of this year but that hasn’t stopped it having an influence on the Indian used car market. Used prices for India’s most popular (and currently cheapest) car, the Maruti 800, have plummeted 30 percent just on the anticipation of the [...]
Tata unveiled their Nano “Peoples Car” in New Delhi earlier this week and with a sale price of just $US2,550 it is arguably the first real “peoples car” to be produced in a long…long time. Click through for the video of the unveiling in New Delhi and see just how flimsy the Nano looks, despite [...]
Update - March 24, 2009: This is proving to be a popular article for TMR, but did you know we have brand new articles on the Tata Nano? Click here to read them.
Tata has today unveiled its new Nano “peoples car” at the New Delhi Auto Expo. With a projected retail price of just US$2,550 [...]
Recently it has been reported that Ford have accepted Indian manufacturer Tata Motors bid for Jaguar Land Rover over those of rival bidders Mahindra & Mahinda and the private equity firm One Equity Partners. I’ve avoided reporting that news until now as it didn’t come with an official Ford announcement but that has all changed [...]
Of the remaining three bidders for the Jaguar Land Rover conglomerate, Tata is emerging as the clear favourite not only from the workers union perspective but also for those who want to see both brands move on and prosper. Ford have tipped a bucket load of cash into the Jaguar Land Rover chasm but it [...]
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