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Thursday, Jun 4
REPORT: Ford sells off former PAG headquarters in Irvine
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Tuesday, May 19
Review: 2009 Land Rover LR2 HSE is naughty by nature
Admittedly, with more and more buyers flocking to the softroader pool, it made a good degree of sense for Land Rover to take a second crack at the market – even after the lackluster Freelander failed to find Stateside homes. Still, despite the solid ...
Monday, May 11
Tata looking to raise £1 billion to keep Jaguar, Land Rover going
CA We would like to know if Alan Mullaly offered that warning to Ratan Tata (above) before the latter bought Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR). As with the Blue Oval before it, Tata Motors is about to throw billions at the English luxury marques and it is ...
Sunday, May 3
And they're off! Gumballers head out of Los Angeles on first leg ...
CA - Drew Phillips, Drew Phillips a Jaguar XJ220, SSC Ultimate Aero, Audi R8, and dozens of your standard Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Aston Martins. Of course, there were also a few non-standard rides, like this bio-diesel Land Rover, a metallic-green lowrider, and this bad boy. ...
Tuesday, Apr 21
Rumormill: Fiat could step in for GM in Europe, Latin America
New Zealand Herald CA on hold with Chinese automaker Chery and with Nissan, but talks about a tie-in with BMW are afoot, as were rumors of a merger with French auto group PSA Peugeot-Citroen, to say nothing of Fiat's role in Tata's acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover. ...
Thursday, Oct 23
Consumer Reports releases 2008 Reliability Survey
You may recall the shock from last year's survey in which three Toyota models - the Camry V6, Tundra V8 4WD and Lexus GS AWD - all fell below average in predicted reliability. Consumer Reports says that those three models have clawed their way back up to average reliability scores, while eve...
Friday, Sep 12
Tata: No Jaguar/Land Rover sales data for the US
Fans of our monthly By the Numbers posts may have noticed the conspicuous absence of sales data for both Jaguar and Land Rover over the past few months. The reason we haven't included their sales figures is because we haven't been able ...
Friday, Mar 28
Autoblog Podcast #90
Filed under: Concept Cars, New York Auto Show, Podcasts, Coupes, GM, Hyundai, Jaguar, Pontiac, TataAfter being endlessly mired in the '80s, the Autoblog Podcast has now climbed its way up to #90. Alex took a sick day, so John and Damon hold the fort. We've been in New York, and that's the main...
Wednesday, Mar 26
Jaguar/Land Rover prognostications come out of woodwork
Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertibles, Coupes, Sedans/Saloons, SUVs, Plants/Manufacturing, Jaguar, Land Rover, Tata With the sale of Jaguar and Land Rover really, truly official, it hasn't taken long for every automotive news outlet to come out with its own take on the future of bo...
Tuesday, Jul 24
Small changes for big Range Rover in 2008
It's had a lot of challengers, and to stay at the top, Land Rover has been rolling out consistent updates to its flagship Range Rover model. Last year it was the upgraded engines: the 305-hp 4.4-liter V8 and the supercharged 400-hp 4.2-liter V8. For this year, the Range Rover gets upgrades to th...
Monday, Jul 23
Ford fears add complexity to Jag and Land Rover bidding
Those of us outside of Ford have little idea about what Ford is really planning to do with its remaining PAG brands, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Volvo. If nothing else, it does seems clear that Ford wants to get rid of Jaguar and Land Rover at something above fire sale prices, and it would like to ke...
Monday, Jul 16
Next Range Rover to go upmarket, downmarket and lighter-weight
A new styling direction, led by new design chief Phil Simmons, is expected to include shorter overhangs and de-emphasized greenhouse to give a tauter and less top-heavy appearance. If given the green light for development by Ford or by any future parent company, the Range Rover would be t...
Thursday, Jul 5
Range Rover receives Ford's designer du jour
Ford has reportedly announced that its current chief designer at Ford of Europe, Phil Simmons, is being moved over to Land Rover. Rather than having a man with such experience oversee the design of the entire Land Rover brand, Simmons will become the studio director for just the Ranger Rov...
Sunday, Jun 10
From the "That Was Yesterday" files: Jag, Land Rover, Volvo are on the block
Filed under: Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Volvo, FIATIn April, Mulally said Jaguar was part of the Way Forward plan and wasn't going to be sold, but needed to get its act together. News today, however, is that Ford has been trying to sell Jaguar and Land Rover to Fiat ever since February. Ford has...
Friday, May 11
The new Range Rover: Coming with aluminum!
Imagine you're overweight. A friend of yours tells you about a diet he got great results from. If you do the one simple thing he did, you'll lose around 1,000 pounds. You'd try it, wouldn't you? That's what's in store for the next generation Range Rover, with plans to give the Posh-UV an all-alu...
Wednesday, May 9
Land Rover builds four millionth vehicle and gives it away
Over the past half century Land Rovers have become synonymous with naturalists and peacekeepers the world over. The Land Rover factory in Solihull, England turned out the first of those famous off-road vehicles 59 years ago and yesterday, the four millionth example of the breed rolled o...
Monday, Apr 9
Man builds Chitty Chitty Bang Bang replica "dream car" for wife
It's nice to see romance flourishing in this increasingly jaundiced world. Nick Pointing's wife, Carolyn, fell in love with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the tender age of three. She'd already accumulated quite the collection of Chitty memorabilia when Nick and Carolyn struck upon the idea...
Wednesday, Mar 21
Land Rover Defender holds the high ground with 2007 updates
Even before specially-built versions like ambulances and airport fire trucks are taken into account, the Defender is offered in no less than 14 distinct body-styles, including various configurations of the Defender 90, 110 and 130, all produced on the same assembly line. Among its var...
