Tag: Land Rover

• Wednesday, February 17th 2021 - 08:07 UTC

  Jaguar will be all electric by 2025

  

  Jaguar Land Rover's Jaguar brand will be all-electric by 2025, the carmaker announced. The company will launch electric models of its entire Jaguar and Land Rover line-up by 2030, it added.

• Thursday, February 20th 2020 - 08:06 UTC

  Jaguar Land Rover running out of Chinese parts for UK factories: some parts flown in suitcases

  

  Jaguar Land Rover has flown in parts in suitcases as the effects of coronavirus take a toll on the carmaker's supply chain. It said it could start to run out of Chinese parts for its UK factories after two weeks.

• Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Land Rover beats Chinese auto industry copies in Beijing court

  

  Jaguar Land Rover has won a legal case to prevent a Chinese car brand from selling a copycat vehicle, ending a three-year court battle. In 2016 the UK-based carmaker sued Jiangling Motor Corporation over its Landwind X7 sport utility vehicle, which the company claimed bore an extremely similar resemblance to the Range Rover Evoque.

• Tuesday, February 19th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Honda will shut-down its plant in England by 2022; some 3.500 at stake

  

  Japanese car giant Honda is expected to announce the shutdown of its plant in south west England in 2022, putting 3,500 jobs at risk, media reports said on Monday. The car manufacturer is to announce the closure of its Swindon plant on Tuesday, according to Sky News, but still keep its European headquarters in nearby Bracknell.

• Friday, February 8th 2019 - 09:13 UTC

  Collapse in China sales hits Jaguar Land Rover profits

  

  Jaguar Land Rover booked a loss for the last three months of 2018 as sales collapsed in China. The company booked a £3.1bn reduction in the value of its plants and other investments leading to a £3.4bn quarterly loss, its biggest to date.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Brexit uncertainties: Jaguar Land Rover will extend its annual shutdown

  

  Jaguar Land Rover is to extend its annual April shutdown in car production because of uncertainties around Brexit. The UK's biggest carmaker will be idle for an extra week because of fears of disruption at its car and engine plants at Liverpool, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

• Thursday, January 10th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Jaguar Land Rover is cutting 5.000 jobs from its 40.000 strong UK workforce

  

  Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will announce on Thursday it is cutting up to 5,000 jobs from its 40,000 strong UK workforce. Management, marketing and administrative roles are expected to be hardest hit, but some production staff may also be affected.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2018 - 08:21 UTC

  Brexit threatening prospects of Jaguar and Land Rover, according to Tata Motors

  

  Protracted Brexit talks are weighing on the recovery prospects of Jaguar Land Rover, according to its Indian owner. The focus of Tata Motors, which bought JLR in 2008 from Ford, is to ensure the automaker remains financially strong in the face of the challenges, Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran said in an interview over the weekend. Tata Sons is the parent of Tata Motors.

• Monday, November 25th 2013 - 07:39 UTC

  Jaguar-Land Rover to build manufacturing plant in Brazil

  

  Jaguar Land Rover plans to build a 500 million dollars manufacturing plant in Brazil, the O Globo newspaper reported on Sunday. The daily wrote that the Rio de Janeiro factory will be the company's second production facility outside Britain, in addition to one China. It also has an assembly plant in India.

• Friday, September 7th 2012 - 05:34 UTC

  Land Rover will manufacture the Freelander and Evoque in China

  

  British luxury car company Jaguar Land Rover has announced plans to build two of its models in China. It will be the first full manufacturing plant for the company outside the UK. Although the plans still have to be given final approval by the Chinese government, Jaguar Land Rover has already found a site for the plant, just north of Shanghai.