Mois : août 2020

A camouflaged Land Rover prototype has been spotted in Coventry ahead of its unveiling. The vehicle was spotted at the Quadrant in the city centre by eagle-eyed CoventryLive reader Darren Vel Satis. Although it’s often a guessing game as to what camouflaged prototypes might be – due to their heavy ‘cladding’ – in this case […]

Welcome to our regular news round-up relating to all things Jaguar Land Rover. We look at some of the stories about Britain’s biggest car maker, which has its global headquarters in Coventry. It continues to be an extremely challenging time for the car maker as the automotive industry struggles due to the coronavirus pandemic. As […]

Research by Jaguar Land Rover has shown that recycling aluminium from cars, cans and bottle tops could create the vehicles of tomorrow and slash carbon emissions. The Coventry car maker has revealed how an innovative upcycling process it has developed could combine drinks cans and bottle tops with aluminium from cars that have reached the […]

The company behind a new off-roader described as a rival to the Land Rover Defender has revealed it is confident the vehicle will now be produced in France instead of the UK. Ineos Automotive is set to build its Grenadier 4×4 in a former Mercedes-Benz factory in northern France, close to the German border, rather […]

A coronavirus grant of up to £6,570 is being made available to self-employed people from today (August 17). But, while millions of self-employed people are eligible for the second round of the Self-Employment Support Scheme, it isn’t the case for all. The scheme, which has been set up to support those whose business suffered due […]

Replacing the Land Rover Defender was always going to be a tough task – some might say an impossible one. The Defender – born out of the original Land-Rover and the Series I, II and III models which came in its wake – was a true automotive legend. It was in production at Land Rover’s […]

The economic challenges posed by Covid-19 are many and run deep and one sector that’s being particularly hard hit is automotive. It has impacted hugely on car makers across the Midlands – Jaguar Land Rover, Aston Martin and Bentley Motors. Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin had some serious challenges as it was, so the […]

Welcome to our regular news round-up relating to all things Jaguar Land Rover. We look at some of the stories from around the world about Britain’s biggest car maker, which has its global headquarters in Coventry. It continues to be an extremely challenging time for the car maker as the automotive industry struggles due to […]

Jaguar Land Rover has failed in a legal challenge to get the trademark rights for the iconic Land Rover Defender. The decision means Ineos Automotive is now free to press ahead with its Grenadier off-roader without fear of legal action. The Grenadier has been dubbed the spiritual successor to the Defender. On Monday (August 3) […]

Jaguar is remembering its legendary test driver Norman Dewis on what would have been his 100th birthday. The Coventry-born test driver and development engineer would have celebrated his 100th birthday today (Monday, August 3). Norman, who lived in Humber Road in Stoke for many years, began a 33-year career with Jaguar on January 1 1952, […]

It’s a tough time for the automotive industry right now and there’s much talk about what Jaguar Land Rover needs to do to get back on track. For Britain’s biggest car maker the coronavirus crisis has been an additional challenge to those it was dealing with already. Like any car maker Jaguar  Land Rover’s success […]