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Saturday, March 20th 2010

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Spotlight: The 2009 Scottish Car of the Year Awards

The Land Rover Discovery 4 named the 2009 Scottish Car of the Year at a glittering awards ceremony at The Fairmont, St Andrews. The latest generation model triumphed over a host of new cars to win the coveted overall title for the first time in the brand’s history. Organised by the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers, [...]

Land Rover sales up for third consecutive month

Land Rover’s UK sales for October 2009 have risen for the third consecutive month in a row. Land Rover sold a total of 2855 units in October 2009 and 28,042 year to date. This is 89% better than October 2008. All of the models saw a rise in sales with Defender up 25%, Freelander 2 up [...]

Land Rover Discovery 4 road test

A new 3.0-litre V6 turbodiesel, borrowed from Jaguar and retuned by Land Rover to suit their particular needs has transformed the Discovery from merely brilliant to quite possibly the best, most rounded SUV money can buy. While the 187bhp, 324lb ft 2.7 TDV6 model continues as a sole entry-level model, the new 3.0 TDV6 [...]

Expedition spreads word of climate change

A team of three Cambridge graduates has today received a Land Rover Defender 110 and a cheque for £10,000, at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London, to embark on an expedition of approximately 32,000km, through 31 countries,  to raise awareness of the potential impacts of climate change along the Atlantic coastline. ‘Atlantic Rising’, winners [...]

Jaguar Land Rover to shed 300 jobs

Jaguar and Land Rover are to cut 300 jobs at their plant in Halewood, Merseyside, in connection with plans to cease production of Jaguar’s X-Type model by the end of the year. The carmakers, owned by Indian group Tata Motors, also announced on Wednesday a further three-week shutdown starting in September due to “on-going weakness [...]

Land Rover and Jaguar drag on Tata

Just when many thought Tata’s run of bad luck might be nearing its end, India’s largest conglomerate was this week forced to shift the venue of the glamorous launch of its newly acquired Jaguar and Land Rover brands in India. The event had to be quickly switched to the group’s Taj President Hotel in Mumbai after [...]

2 million unemployment hits motor industry hard

UK unemployment has topped 2 million, official statistics show, the highest level since 1997. The figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent for the three months to January 2009, up 0.5 over the previous quarter and up 1.3 over the year. The number [...]

Land Rover gets £27m government grant

Land Rover is to receive a £27 million grant from the UK Government for the production of a new car. The company owned by Tata Motors, say they would use the money to produce their lightest and most fuel efficient model yet. The car would be based on Land Rover’s acclaimed LRX Concept vehicle, first shown [...]

Union Leader Vows Every Support For Jaguar Land Rover Workers

Derek Simpson, joint leader of Unite the Union is to meet Jaguar Land Rover workers at the car manufacturer’s Castle Bromwich and Solihull plants today (January 13th), where he will tell the workers that Unite will be doing everything in its power to support manufacturing workers during the financial downturn. Unite is reiterating its call for [...]

Tata Will Inject Cash Into Jaguar

The owner of Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors, has confirmed that it will inject cash into the British giant according to a report from the Financial Times. This should help the UK government as it was deciding on whether or not to give aid to the struggling car-maker. According to the BBC Business Secretary Lord Mandelson had [...]

Land Rover announces new Range Rover line-up

Land Rover will take the wraps off the new Range Rover line-up at the 2008 British Motor Show. Land Rover has confirmed that the 2009 model year line-up will feature the most luxurious top of the range production Range Rover yet. This new model will be the high-specification ‘Autobiography’. The new flagship receives more leather upholstery than any [...]

Jaguar Land Rover create 600 jobs

The car industry is fighting back against the credit crunch as Jaguar Land Rover has announced that 600 new jobs will be created at its plants. The focus of the campaign will be to recruit engineers to work on exciting new technology and product development programmes. There are also a significant number of key vacancies in [...]

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