Tata Group’s UK luxury vehicle unit Jaguar Land Rover enjoyed its best-ever April selling 28,503 vehicles, up 12% year on year. Year to date sales rose 16% to 143,974.
Sales last month were up in every major region: Asia Pacific, 37%; UK, 32%; China, 10%; North America, 6%; Europe, 2%; with other markets rising 11%. This mirrored JLR’s sales performance in these regions so far this year.
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Group sales chief Phil Popham said: “This is a positive start to our second quarter sales and continues the growth trend seen in the first three months of the year.
“Sales of the Jaguar XF remain buoyant across many of our key markets and we are seeing the positive impact of the [redesigned] Range Rover with approaching 15,000 cars sold in the first four months of this year.”
Jaguar sold 4,711 vehicles in April, up 12%, with XF sales up 26% reflecting the impact of the new V6 and I4 two-litre petrol engines plus new AWD and Sportbrake derivatives.
There were significant increases in Australia (up 78%), Korea, (47%), UK, (34%), China (25%) and Middle East and North Africa (27%).
Calendar year to date, Jaguar sold 24,888 vehicles, up 27%, with increases in each major region.
Land Rover made 23,792 sales in April, up 12%, with Asia Pacific growing 39%, UK, 31%, China, 8% and North American and Europe both up 6%.
So far this year the off-road brand has sold 119,086 vehicles, up 14%, with a particularly strong performance from the long-running Freelander 2, up 36%.
In 2012, JLR sold 357,773 vehicles, up 30% over 2011. It plans to spend around GBP2.75bn (US$4.2bn) on its products and facilities in the financial year to 31 March, 2014.
