Tata buys Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford
As Tata makes headlines with the purchase of Jaguar-Land Rover from Ford, we’ve put together a short list of things that are useful to know about the Tata Group and its automotive unit.
FEATURE: Ten useful things to know about Tata
2 Apr 2008 | just-auto.com editorial team
As Tata makes headlines with the purchase of Jaguar-Land Rover from Ford, we’ve put together a short list of things that are useful to know about the Tata Group and its automotive unit.
EMERGING MARKETS ANALYSIS: There’s more to Tata’s Jaguar-Land Rover deal than meets the eye
2 Apr 2008 | Mark Bursa
Tata hasn’t just won control of Jaguar and Land-Rover – it’s got the rights to a couple of other significant British brands too. Mark Bursa reports
EXCLUSIVE: UK: Jaguar eyes 100,000 under Tata management
28 Mar 2008 | just-auto.com editorial team
Jaguar’s near-term production future is forecast to climb back towards 100,000 cars under Tata Motors’ management, adding a gloss to the Indian company’s take-over announced earlier this week.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: Ford and Tata strike a deal
28 Mar 2008 | just-auto.com editorial team
Hmmm, let's see now, did anything interesting happen in the auto biz this week? Oh yes, a certain Indian conglomerate - at long last - put most of the world's financial and auto media out of its misery by confirming that it was buying two certain iconic British luxury brands.
UK: First task for Tata - boost Land Rover output at Halewood
27 Mar 2008 | just-auto.com editorial team
One of the first major investment decisions by Tata Motors at its new British Jaguar Land Rover subsidiary is to rubber stamp a significant expansion at the Halewood plant on Merseyside (near Liverpool) that will double output by 2012.
26 Mar 2008 | Dave Leggett
Just been talking to Mark Bursa about Tata and JLR. Just who owns the Rover brand now? Ford bought it off of BMW and stopped Shanghai Auto getting it a couple of years back (and SAIC therefore...
UK [updated 14:00GMT]: Tata to buy Jaguar and Land Rover for $2.3bn
26 Mar 2008 | just-auto.com editorial team
Ford Motor Company on Wednesday (26 March) said it had "entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Jaguar Land Rover operations to Tata Motors" for around US$2.3bn.
11 Mar 2008 | just-auto.com editorial team
Tata Motors is a company very much in the automotive industry spotlight. With its Nano small car it has set a new benchmark for producing a low-cost car specifically for emerging markets. It is also about to extend its automotive market presence through the planned acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford. Last week, Julian Rendell spoke to the firm’s eponymous patriarch, Ratan Tata.
GENEVA: Tata shows Nano, quiet on Ford buy
6 Mar 2008 | just-auto.com editorial team
Tata's Nano may never be sold in Europe but it drew the biggest crowds at the Geneva show press days this week - though many of the journalists weren't really there to see the controversial Indian 'people's car'.
5 Feb 2008 | Dave Leggett
I wonder how well the nitty-gritty final detailed negotiations between Ford and Tata are going. The press reports last weekend (sounds like Marchionne may have shot his mouth off a bit to the S...
X-Type debacle? Not our fault guv...
29 Jan 2008 | Dave Leggett
Today's Financial Times carries an interview with Jaguar head of design Ian Callum that leads on the fact that he's nice and relaxed about the prospect of the firm's ownership transfe...
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