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JAGUAR Land Rover is to keep ALL its UK factories open after agreeing a big new pay deal with unions. Last year, it was announced one of the firm’s plants would close – with both the Land Rover Solihull factory and Jaguar Castle Bromwich facility under threat. Land Rover’s Halewood facility was already secure, thanks [...]

JAGUAR’S MD has announced his retirement from day-to-day working operations at Jaguar Land Rover. Mike O’Driscoll is widely credited for leading Jaguar through its sale to its Indian owners, Tata. He moved from America at the news of Ford selling the British brands and oversaw the introduction of Jaguar’s new model line-up of the XF, [...]

JAGUAR has launched two new Apps for iPad and iPhone users that let buyers configure their cars. The first – the iConfigurator app for the iPhone and iPad – will allow users to experience the full vehicle configuration process at their own convenience. Showcasing the full model line-up, users will have access to the latest [...]

JAGUAR has revealed the incredible C-X75 range-extender electric vehicle supercar concept here in Paris. The C-X75 EREV has a 195bhp electric motor for each wheel, giving a total of 780bhp, plus 1180lb ft of torque: way in excess of a Bugatti Veyron. This means it can do 205mph, 0-62mph in 3.4 seconds – yet emit [...]

JLR has revealed the winners of its competition to find the country’s best technicians of 2010. 302 JLR technicians who’d attained Level 4 were entered into the running, from which 12 finalists were selected. These competed in a big annuals skills final day at the Academy’s Warwick HQ on 6 August – from which two [...]

JAGUAR has taken overall luxury car sector honours in its first full month of retailing the new XJ at car dealers. By close of play last month, it had outsold the Mercedes S-Class by 38 percent. Even more impressively, sales were 70 percent ahead of the BMW 7 Series! It equates to 295 Jaguar XJ [...]

TATA Motors boss Carl-Peter Forster has indicated Jaguar Land Rover models WILL be produced outside the UK. This will most likely involve the setting up of production plants in India or China, for local market consumption. Speaking at the SMMT International Automotive Summit, he said that to grow beyond a certain point in China, the [...]

JAGUAR is releasing a super-special edition XK costing £85,500 and capable of hitting 174mph. The car marks Jaguar’s 75th anniversary – and, fittingly, is strictly limited to just 75. Upping the power to 530bhp has helped it now crack 0-60mph in 4.4 seconds. There’s also a sports exhaust that sounds sportily much louder. Jaguar MD [...]

LUXURY car sales are dominated by one model – the Mercedes S-Class. Try as they might, rivals just don’t seem to be able to break this stranglehold. BMW’s been having a go for decades, and Audi joined the party a decade-and-a-half ago with the all-aluminium A8. Neither has dethroned the S-Class. There’s one rival that’s been around far [...]

KIA has signed a 5-year deal to use Infomedia’s service quote system in all its authorised car dealer service departments. Already used by UK Kia dealers, the worldwide rollout is a big statement of intended uniformity for the brand. It is, however, not alone in the move. Hyundai, Jaguar and Land Rover also stipulate the [...]

JAGUAR’S XJ launch marks a ‘coming out party’ for the firm reveals Jaguar MD Mike O’Driscoll. ‘In January 2008, we had the X-Type, the S-Type and the old XJ. They have now all gone. We have wiped the slate clean.’ ‘Now, our designs all like they came from the same decade,’ he said, mischievously. This [...]

2010 will be a critical year for Jaguar car dealers as the firm formally adopts a defined premium strategy. Jaguar dealers will be rewarded for the pain of recent years with better profits and ‘class leading’ cars to sell. ‘The X-Type has now finished,’ Jaguar UK MD Geoff Cousins told Car Dealer Magazine at the [...]

JAGUAR Land Rover has today secured a big £340m loan to develop green hybrid cars and lightweight bodies. The loan has been granted by the European Investment Bank under its Clean Transport Facility It is a big boost for JLR, which now has official EU recognition for the worth of its CO2-reducing plans. The funds [...]

JAGUAR is raising the top speed limiter of the XKR coupe to 174mph in a bold change for the new model year. The 2011 XK range will debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month. 174mph – where legal, of course – will be offered to Jaguar buyers as part of an optional Speed Pack. [...]

JAGUAR Land Rover has given its finance department a boost with the appointment of a new director. Former Toyota vice president David Betteley has become the firm’s new financial services director. He’s now going to lead Jaguar Land Rover finance services across the glove, reporting to customer service director Mike Wright. ‘Having someone of David’s [...]

BEN holds its annual BEN Ball charity auction tonight – and the prizes this year are some of the best ever! How do you fancy 2 VIP tickets to the Champions League? A Suzuki GSX-R1000? A Fiat 500? Even, remarkably, a Jaguar XJ diesel? No, we can’t believe the haul on offer, either! Yet such [...]

JAGUAR Land Rover car dealers have come out top in the latest J.D. Power owner satisfaction survey. Outscoring every other luxury maker, Jaguar topped the customer sales satisfaction category in the US market survey. What’s more, Land Rover came 5th. Jaguar has actually tipped the Sales Satisfaction Index for the second consecutive year – one [...]

JAGUAR Land Rover could soon be headed up by the recently-departed chief of Vauxhall Opel. The Sunday Times reports 55 year old Carl-Peter Forster is expected to join within a few months. Sources for the paper say his new role would be a senior one at Tata Motors, which would include overall responsibility for Jaguar [...]

JAGUAR Land Rover has just made the shock announcement that a Midlands plant is to CLOSE Either the Solihull or Castle Bromwich plant is going to be axed – and the firm isn’t saying which yet. However, the company added it does NOT see any compulsory redundancies. The new comes on the same day Land [...]

TATA has secured funding to meet JLR’s short-term financial needs, meaning a Government bail-out is not needed. The £75m cash injection suggests banks and businesses have in the firm’s long-term viability. Business Secretary Peter Mandelson reckoned the additional funding ‘will allow JLR to invest in future models and successfully launch the new XJ saloon on [...]