Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC is the holding company of Jaguar Land Rover Limited,

a British multinational automotive company with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, United

Kingdom, and a subsidiary of Indian automotive company Tata Motors. The principal activity of
Jaguar Land Rover Limited is the design, development, manufacture and sale of vehicles bearing
the Jaguar and Land Rover marques.
Both marques have long and complex histories prior to their merger – Jaguar going back to the
1930s and Land Rover to the 1940s – first coming together in 1968 as part of the British
Leyland conglomerate, later again independent of each other, and then as subsidiaries
of BMW (in the case of Land Rover), and Ford Motor Company (Jaguar). Ford acquired Land
Rover from BMW in 2000 following the break-up of the former Rover Group, which was
effectively the remainder of the British Leyland car producing companies.
Jaguar Land Rover has been a subsidiary of Tata Motors since they founded it for the acquisition
of Jaguar Cars Limited and Land Rover from Ford in 2008. On 1 January 2013 the operations of
Jaguar Cars Limited and Land Rover were merged as Jaguar Land Rover Limited and the parent
was renamed to Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC.

Contents

 1History
 2Investment and expansion
 3Sales
 4Corporate affairs
o 4.1Board of directors
o 4.2Financial data
 5Operations
 6Products
o 6.1NOx emissions ratings
o 6.2Future electrification
o 6.3Current Jaguar products
o 6.4Current Land Rover products
 7References
 8External links

History[edit]
Both businesses having been part of British Leyland for parts of their histories until 1984, Jaguar
Cars and Land Rover were eventually reunited into the same group again by the Ford Motor
Company in 2002.[6] Ford had acquired Jaguar Cars in 1989 and Land Rover from BMW in 2000.
[7][8]
 In 2006, Ford purchased the Rover brand name from BMW for around £6 million. This
reunited the Rover and Land Rover brands for the first time since the Rover group was broken up
by BMW in 2000.
On 18 January 2008, Tata Motors, a part of the Tata Group, established Jaguar Land Rover
Limited as a British-registered, wholly owned subsidiary. The company was to be used as a
holding company for the acquisition from Ford of the two businesses – Jaguar Cars Limited and
Land Rover. That acquisition was completed on 2 June 2008.[9][10] On 1 January 2013, the group,
which had been operating as two separate companies (Jaguar Cars Limited and Land Rover),
although on an integrated basis, underwent a fundamental restructuring. The parent company
was renamed to Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC, Jaguar Cars Limited was renamed to
Jaguar Land Rover Limited and the assets (excluding certain Chinese interests) of Land Rover
were transferred to it. The consequence was that Jaguar Land Rover Limited became
responsible in the UK for the design, manufacture and marketing of both Jaguar and Land Rover
products.[11]
In addition to the Jaguar and Land Rover marques, JLR also owns the rights to the
dormant Daimler, Lanchester and Rover marques. The latter was acquired by Land Rover, whilst
still under Ford ownership, from BMW in the aftermath of the collapse of MG Rover Group; BMW
had retained ownership of the marque when it broke up Rover Group in 2000, then licensed it to
MG Rover.
In June 2018, J.D. Power of the US rated Jaguar and Land Rover as the lowest two marques in
terms of initial quality.[12] The mid-2019 report confirmed them as the two worst brands for initial
quality.[13] The Jaguar F-Pace made Consumer Reports' February 2019 list of the '10 Least
Reliable Cars'. The editors cited "electronics, drive system, power equipment, noises and leaks"
as problematic aspects.[14]

Investment and expansion[edit]

In March 2011, Jaguar Land Rover announced that it would hire an additional 1,500 staff at
its Halewood plant, and signed over £2 billion of supply contracts with UK-based companies, to
enable production of its new Range Rover Evoque model.[15][16] In September 2011, the company
confirmed that it would be investing £355 million in the construction of a new engine plant at
the i54 business park near Wolverhampton, central England, to manufacture a family of four-
cylinder petrol and diesel engines.[17][18] In November 2011 Jaguar Land Rover announced that it
would be creating 1,000 new jobs at its Solihull plant, a 25 per cent increase in the size of the
workforce at the site.[19][20]
In March 2012, Jaguar Land Rover announced the creation of 1,000 new jobs at its Halewood
plant, and a shift to 24-hour production at the plant.[21][22] In the same month, Jaguar Land Rover
and the China-based carmaker Chery agreed to invest an initial US$2.78 billion in a new joint
venture, the activities of which would include the manufacture of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles
and engines, the establishment of a research and development facility, the creation of a new
automobile marque, and sales of vehicles produced by the company.[23][24] Jaguar Land Rover
planned to create 4,500 manufacturing and engineering jobs in the UK over the next five years.[25]
In late 2012, the company announced a joint venture for Jaguars and Land Rovers to be built in
China, now the world's biggest car-market. The agreement was with Chery, China's sixth largest
auto manufacturer, and called for a new Chinese factory in Changshu to build vehicles starting in
2014.[26] Trial production at the facility began in April 2014, with a potential capacity of 130,000
vehicles annually.[27] The first production model by the Chery Jaguar Land Rover venture was the
Evoque, with other models planned that also include modifications, such as longer wheelbases,
to satisfy Chinese market demand.[28]
In September 2013, Jaguar Land Rover announced an additional 1,700 jobs and £1.5 billion
investment at its facility in Solihull. The money was to be spent on designing systems to allow the
chassis of future models to be made out of aluminium; the first of these wo