Jaguar Land Rover’s recent announcement that Jaguar will morph into an EV-only brand from 2025 is being viewed as a last-ditch attempt to save the famed British automaker. It has been confirmed that all future Jaguar models introduced from 2025 will share the same platform but at this stage, it is unclear just what form […]
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Jaguar Land Rover will look to cut approximately 2,000 salaried jobs in the next financial year. Shortly after announcing that it will transition to an EV-only brand, the company started briefing employees about its plans for a reorganization. It remains to be seen which specific jobs will be cut but Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed […]
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Fresh from Jaguar Land Rover’s announcement that Jaguar will only sell electric vehicles based on a single platform from 2025, questions have been raised about the future of the brand’s sports cars, in particular the F-Type. In transforming Jaguar into an electric-only brand, the British carmaker has already decided to kill off the next-generation XJ […]
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Land Rover has been going back and forth about launching a pickup variant of the current Defender, and it seems that the project might actually be greenlit. Don’t hold your breath for the utilitarian model just yet, because it is far from official, but a satisfactory comment came from JLR’s Executive Director of Vehicle Programs, […]
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Jaguar Land Rover’s new Chief Executive Officer, Thierry Bolloré, today revealed a wide-reaching set of plans that are set to transform the line-up of both British brands. JLR’s new global strategy, christened ‘Reimagine’, will see Jaguar transform into a pure-electric brand by 2025. On the other side of the business, we’re promised six new pure-EV […]
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Jaguar Land Rover is conducting research into advanced lightweight composites for use in future electric vehicles. The ultimate goal is to develop “vehicle and powertrain structures” that eschew aluminum and steel for lightweight composites that are strong enough to withstand the increased torque generated by electric powertrains. If the company is successful, we can expect […]
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The 2021 Dakar Rally is just around the corner and the new Land Rover Defender will be present, sadly not to race but to support the efforts of the Prodrive-backed Bahrain Raid XTreme team, or BRX for short. A pair of production-spec Defender 110 P400 models will act as support vehicles for the BRX team, […]
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Last month, Jaguar Land Rover filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), claiming that VW Group SUVs and crossovers are utilizing JLR’s Terrain Response system without permission. The filing demanded a ban in the U.S. for the likes of the Porsche Cayenne, Lamborghini Urus, Audi‘s Q8, Q7, Q5, A6 Allroad and e-tron […]
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to leave its mark on the automotive industry, as in the first 11 months of the year new passenger car registrations dropped by 25.5 percent in the European Union. Sales plummeted from almost 12 million to around 9 million from January to November compared to the same period […]
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Jaguar Land Rover chief creative officer Gerry McGovern is looking forward to helping make Jaguar “wonderful again” by modernizing the design of its future models. McGovern has been in charge of Land Rover’s design department since 2006, and now he oversees both Land Rover design boss Massimo Frascella as well as Jaguar design head Julian […]
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