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RANGE Rover has released details and pictures of the five-door version of its Evoque coupe SUV.  Following in the footsteps of the well-received three-door version, the five-door continues where its sibling left off by offering coupe-like styling in an SUV format. Ahead of its official debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show on November 17, [...]

LAND Rover has announced the appointment of Colin Green as managing director of Land Rover UK.  The announcement comes after a restructuring programme by the brand to ‘strengthen the voice of the customer at Board Level’.  Green, 53, currently Land Rover global marketing director will replace John Edwards who has been appointed global brand director. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

LAND Rover will introduce a front-wheel drive version of the new baby Range Rover to dealers next year. The compact Range Rover LRX-inspired model will be offered in both 2WD and 4WD forms, the firm has just announced. This will cut the CO2 figures of the diesel model dramatically: Land Rover says the model will [...]

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 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 [...]

LAND Rover sales shot up 58 percent in January thanks to the bad weather driving off-roader sales. The new Discovery 4 range actually performed even better by clocking up a 92 percent sales rise at car dealers! ‘Heavy snow and icy conditions last month meant car buyers were looking for a vehicle that provides them [...]

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 [...]

ONE car dealer stepped in to help doctors visit patients as the wintry weather caused chaos last week. Guy Salmon Land Rover, in Portsmouth lent a team of GPs Land Rovers to help them continue their out of hours service. The dealership was approached for help by NHS Portsmouth – who originally wanted to hire [...]

LAND Rover staged a staggering recovery during 2009, with total year sales up 93 percent on 2008. The firm reports sales have been consistently on the up for the past 4 months now. Individual model improvements were even more impressive. The Discovery 4 went up by 115 percent, and the Range Rover Sport was up [...]

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 [...]

NEW car sales for October saw more big market share increases – led by scrappage winner Hyundai. Market share for the Korean brand was up 286 percent! That’s over 100 percent MORE than sister brand Kia’s otherwise-glittering 156 percent rise. Fiat’s sales were also up 117 percent, while Nissan scored 108 percent, Suzuki 106 percent [...]

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 [...]

LAND Rover reports a second consecutive month of sales increases, after a successful September performance. 7185 new Land Rovers were sold, a 27 percent increase on September 2008. This total also ensures the UK remains the world’s largest market for Land Rovers. But it’s the individual performances that really stand out. Discovery sales were up [...]

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 [...]

LAND Rover has today CONFIRMED the baby Range Rover is to be made – hitting dealer showrooms in 2011. The firm says the green light has been given to bringing the LRX concept to life. It will be the smallest, greenest, most dynamic Range Rover ever. Customer research has proven, says Land Rover, the new [...]

LAND ROVER launched the 2010 Range Rover Sport Supercharged in a dramatic way to car dealers. It laid some fresh tarmac on an airfield in Scotland, measured and marked it out, then… Well, it ran a Range Rover Sport Supercharged along it, from 0-100mph-0 again. The car passed the test, with loads of tarmac to [...]

PARK’S Motor Group has just become the first-ever official Range Rover Overfinch car dealer in Scotland. The South Lanarkshire firm will be known as Overfinch Scotland. Parks’s Lee Martis will head up the new Hamilton retailer, which will be selling Overfinch’s famous line of performance Range Rovers. ‘Overfinch has long been well established south of [...]