The importance of continued investment in research and development, despite the current economic downturn, for future prosperity has been highlighted by Jaguar Land Rover. Speaking at an event entitled Prosperity Through Science at Birmingham’s Thinktank, Jaguar Land Rover’s Group Engineering Director, Bob Joyce, told an audience of academics, industrialists and politicians that innovation delivered profits. [...]

Jaguar Land Rover today announced the opening of its new industry-leading ‘Virtual Reality Centre’ at the Design and Engineering Centre in Gaydon. The ‘state-of-the-art’ design facility draws on advanced audio visual technologies with the projection power of the world’s highest resolution projectors to significantly speed up product development cycles following an investment of £2million. Engineers [...]