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The Jaguar Cars and Land Rover businesses were first united under a single entity by Ford Motor Company in 2002.[SUP][6][/SUP] Ford had acquired Jaguar Cars in 1989 and Land Rover from BMW in 2000.[SUP]
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In 2006 Ford purchased the
Rover brand name and logos 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, and also brought Jaguar into the same stable as Rover/Land Rover more than 15 years after it was spun out from the former
British Leyland in 1984.
In 2008, the Jaguar Land Rover company was established when Tata Motors acquired the Jaguar and Land Rover businesses from Ford.[SUP]
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In March 2011, Jaguar Land Rover announced that it would be hiring 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.[SUP]
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[11][/SUP] 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.[SUP]
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[13][/SUP] 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.[SUP]
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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.[SUP]
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[17][/SUP] 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 will 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.[SUP]
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[19][/SUP] Jaguar Land Rover plans to create 4,500 manufacturing and engineering jobs in the UK over the next five years.[SUP]
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Jaguar Land Rover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timeline
- 1947: Rover's chief designer Maurice Wilks and his associates create a prototype using Jeep chassis and components[SUP][26][/SUP]
- 1948: The first Land Rover was officially launched 30 April 1948, at the Amsterdam Motor Show
- 1958: Series II launched
- 1961: Series IIA began production
- 1967: Rover becomes part of Leyland Motors Ltd, later British Leyland (BL) as Rover Triumph
- 1970: Introduction of the Range Rover
- 1971: Series III launched
- 1974: Land Rover abandons US market, facing competitive pressure from Japanese 4x4 brands [SUP][27][/SUP]
- 1975: BL collapses and is nationalised, publication of the Ryder Report recommends that Land Rover be split from Rover and be treated as a separate company within BL and becomes part of the new commercial vehicle division called the Land Rover Leyland Group
- 1976: One-millionth Land Rover leaves the production line
- 1978: Land Rover Limited formed as a separate subsidiary of British Leyland[SUP][28][/SUP]
- 1980: Rover car production ends at Solihull with the transfer of SD1 production to Cowley, Oxford; Solihull is now exclusively for Land Rover manufacture. 5-door Range Rover introduced.
- 1983: Land Rover 90 (Ninety)/110 (One-Ten)/127 (renamed Defender in 1990) introduced
- 1986: BL plc becomes Rover Group plc; Project Llama started
- 1987: Range Rover is finally introduced to the US market, following many years of demand being filled by grey market sales [SUP][29][/SUP] [SUP][30][/SUP]
- 1988: Rover Group is privatised and becomes part of British Aerospace, and is now known simply as Rover
- 1989: Introduction of Discovery
- 1994: Rover Group is taken over by BMW. Introduction of second-generation Range Rover. (The original Range Rover was continued under the name 'Range Rover Classic' until 1995)
- 1997: Land Rover introduces the Special Edition Discovery XD with AA Yellow paint, subdued wheels, SD type roof racks, and a few other off-road upgrades directly from the factory. Produced only for the North American market, the Special Vehicles Division of Land Rover created only 250 of these bright yellow SUV's.
- 1997: Introduction of Freelander
- 1998: Introduction of second generation of Discovery
- 2000: BMW breaks up the Rover Group and sells Land Rover to Ford for £1.8 billion[SUP][31][/SUP]
- 2002: Introduction of third-generation Range Rover
- 2004: Introduction of third-generation Discovery/LR3
- 2005: Introduction of Range Rover Sport
- 2005: Adoption of Jaguar AJ-V8 engine to replace the BMW M62 V8 in the Range Rover
- 2005: Land Rover 'founder' Rover, collapses under the ownership of MG Rover Group
- 2006: Announcement of a new 2.4-litre diesel engine, 6-speed gearbox, dash and forward-facing rear seats for Defender. Introduction of second generation of Freelander (Freelander 2). Ford acquires the Rover trademark from BMW, who previously licensed its use to MG Rover Group
- 8 May 2007: 4,000,000th Land Rover rolls off the production line, a Discovery 3 (LR3), donated to The Born Free Foundation
- 12 June 2007: Announcement from the Ford Motor Company that it plans to sell Land Rover and also Jaguar Cars
- August 2007: Tata Motors and Mahindra and Mahindra as well as financial sponsors Cerberus Capital Management, TPG Capital and Apollo Global Management expressed their interest in purchasing Jaguar Cars and Land Rover from the Ford Motor Company.[SUP][32][/SUP]
- 26 March 2008: Ford agreed to sell their Jaguar Land Rover operations to Tata Motors.[SUP][7][/SUP]
- 2 June 2008: Tata Motors finalised their purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford.[SUP][9][/SUP]
- 2010: Introduction of fourth-generation Discovery/LR4
- 2011: The Range Rover Evoque introduced
- 2012: Fourth-generation Range Rover was exhibited at the 2012 Paris Motor Show
- 2014: The New Discovery Range exhibited at the 2014 New York Motor show[SUP][33][/SUP]
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