As part of its 60th anniversary celebrations, Land Rover is donating 60 vehicles to the British Red Cross Society and its sister national societies around the world. The vehicles were officially handed over to the President of the Red Cross, HRH The Prince of Wales, during a garden party at Buckingham Palace. In an …

Land Rover today officially received two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise at its Gaydon headquarters in Warwickshire. Land Rover received one award for International Trade for increasing export sales by 52% to nearly £4 billion a year, an increase of £1.3 billion in three years. It also won an award for Innovation for the patented Terrain [...]

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 [...]

Tata Motors today acquired the Jaguar Land Rover businesses from Ford Motor Company for a net consideration of US $2.3 billion, as announced on March 26, in an all-cash transaction. Ford has contributed about US $600 million to the Jaguar Land Rover pension plans. Mr. Ratan N. Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Motors, [...]

The world’s largest deserts, the Gobi, makes Mongolia a natural fit with Land Rover’s G4 Challenge. Photo: Land Rover UK The Finals of Land Rover’s ultimate global adventure, the Land Rover G4 Challenge, will take place during 2009 in the most sparsely populated independent country on the planet – Mongolia. A blend of terrain offering [...]

Land Rover LRX Concept and the first ever Land Rover pilot production vehicle (known as ‘Huey’), built in 1948. Photo: Land Rover UK Gaydon, 30 April 2008 – 60 years ago today, a motoring icon made its public debut, when the original Land Rover was shown at a motor show in Amsterdam, on April 30, [...]