Tata Motors’ Jaguar Land Rover has announced plans to expand its advanced engineering and design centre at Whitley, Coventry, doubling its footprint at the site.
This latest multi-million pound spend by the automaker will house product development engineers and support development of high technology ultra low emission vehicles for 180 markets, the automaker said.
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JLR has completed purchase of an additional 62 acres at Whitley, more than doubling the current 55 acre site.
CEO Ralf Speth said: “Our expansion at Whitley will help ensure sustainable growth with the development of ultra low emission technologies.”
The automaker has more than doubled its workforce in the last five years, creating 18,000 new jobs. Some 8,000 engineers and technologists are based at its two UK engineering and design centres at Gaydon and Whitley and an advanced research centre at the University of Warwick.
In the financial year to the end of March 2016 the business will spend over GBP3bn on product creation and capital expenditure, launching 12 major new products. The company’s strategy will see 50 major new and model year vehicle upgrades over the next five years.
