Jaguar

Geoff Polites, chief executive officer of Jaguar Land Rover, has died peacefully in his home country of Australia. He was 60. Mr. Polites, who is credited with leading the team that returned the Jaguar Land Rover business back to profitability and successfully steering it through its ongoing sale process to ...

Ford Motor Company [NYSE: F] announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Jaguar Land Rover operations to Tata Motors.  The transaction is the culmination of Ford’s decision last August to explore strategic options for the Jaguar Land Rover business, as the company accelerates its focus on ...

Tata Motors, which is engaged in focused and detailed negotiations with Ford on the Jaguar Land Rover business, clarifies that the company has had no discussions with Fiat on deployment of technologies developed by Jaguar and Land Rover. Tata Motors is pleased by the progress in the discussions with Ford to date ...

Jaguar XF Jaguar's new XF has claimed top prize �" the highly respected 'Car of the Year' award �" at the 2008 What Car? awards in London last night. The XF also took top place in the 'Best Executive Car' category, ahead of ...

Ford Motor Co. has picked India's Tata Motors Ltd. as the top bidder to buy Ford's Jaguar and Land Rover units, the U.S. automaker said Thursday. Ford said it has entered into ``focused negotiations at a more detailed level'' with Tata, which means Tata has been picked as a preferred bidder for the storied British ...

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F) could name Indian automaker Tata Motors Ltd. a ``preferred bidder'' for its Jaguar and Land Rover units as early as Friday, two people briefed on the negotiations said Wednesday. Talks continue at present with all three potential suitors, and a final deal is not expected to be announced until early next ...

Ford Motor Co. is still evaluating bids from three suitors for its Jaguar and Land Rover units, and a sale is not likely until early in 2008, according to a person who has been briefed on the negotiations. Indian automakers Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. and Tata Motors Ltd., as well as U.S. private equity firm ...

NEW DELHI (AP) _ For India, a former British colony, a takeover of Jaguar and Land Rover would be a boost to local pride and a sign of India's economic rise. But many investors and automotive industry analysts question whether a bid by India's Tata Motors _ maker of workhorse trucks and low-end mass market ...

DETROIT (AP) _ Ford Motor Co. is trying to sell its Jaguar and Land Rover units to raise needed cash and it's too soon to say if it would keep a stake in either luxury vehicle unit, the head of Ford's European operations said Wednesday. ``We're selling the business because we need the money ...

NEW DELHI(AP) _ The chairman of India's Tata Group has confirmed his company's interest in acquiring the Jaguar and Land Rover units of Ford Motor Co. ``We certainly have an interest in that,'' Chairman Ratan Tata told the CNN-IBN television channel in an interview, excerpts of which were telecast Friday. The company had previously refused comment ...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) _ What's in a name? For German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG, it's a lot of history and a brand identity nurtured carefully for the greater part of a century. When it moved to sell its money-losing Chrysler Group and unwind the $36 billion takeover that created the company in 1998, it fought to ...

DETROIT (AP) _ Another former Ford Motor Co. executive has joined the bidding for Ford's Jaguar and Land Rover brands, a person familiar with the negotiations said Friday. Sir Nick Scheele has joined New York-based Ripplewood Holdings LLC in its bid for the luxury brands that cash-strapped Ford is trying to sell, according to the ...

DETROIT (AP) _ Ford Motor Co. has received several bids for its Jaguar and Land Rover units, but a spokesman said they were preliminary and no sale of either British automaking business is imminent. Thursday was a deadline to submit early bids on the two units, but a decision is likely several months away. ``We've had ...

Organized by the South East Automotive Media Organization (SEAMO), Jaguar’s C-XF concept car was voted the 2007 North American Production Preview Vehicle of the Year Award. According to juror Chris Poole, “The C-XF reinterprets Jaguar's traditional 'grace, space, pace' in a fresh, original new way -- which is no easy task. And, all ...

LONDON (AP) _ Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it was reviewing its position on Jaguar and Land Rover, fuelling speculation that the Dearborn, Michigan-based company is getting closer to selling them. John Gardiner, a spokesman for Ford's Premier Automotive Group, which includes the two brands plus Volvo, said Ford has been reviewing all of its ...

LONDON (AP) _ Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it was reviewing its position on Jaguar and Land Rover, and union officials pressed for more information amid reports that the two brands were up for sale. John Gardiner, a spokesman for Ford's Premier Automotive Group which includes the two brands, said Ford had been reviewing ...

The Jaguar unit of Ford Motor led all auto brands in consumers' satisfaction with their car-buying experience, according to a survey by J.D. Power and Associates. The California-based research firm said Wednesday that overall satisfaction with buying new cars was the highest in the 20 years it has conducted the ...

Ford Motor Co. has no plans to sell its Jaguar luxury car brand at the moment, but that could change in the future, a top company executive said Wednesday. Lewis Booth, chairman of Ford of Europe and vice-president of the company's Premier Automotive Group, told industry analysts in a webcast ...

LONDON (AP) _ The chairman of privately held construction machinery group JCB is interested in buying carmaker Jaguar from Ford if the brand were split from stablemate Land Rover, the company confirmed Thursday. The Financial Times reported that Anthony Bamford said that JCB would consider buying the troubled auto unit ...

Jaguar's supercharged XKR comes in both coupe and convertible models. Jaguar has revealed its new supercharged sports car - the Jaguar XKR. Like the XK model, the new supercharged XKR makes intelligent use of practical, modern technology such as an industry-leading aluminium monocoque structure that results in a light and ...

The XKR is the top of the line for Jaguar's XK model. For information on Jaguar cars, go to Jaguar.com.At the British International Motor Show, Jaguar unveiled three new models including the top-of-the-range XK sports car - the all-aluminum XKR. This uprated 420bhp V8 supercharged sports car shared its debut ...

DETROIT (AP) _ Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F), after losing $123 million in the second quarter, is starting a review of poorly performing units including Jaguar, with an eye toward possible sale of some operations, according to a published report. Ford also is considering an alliance with other automakers, a move that General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) ...

The newest release of the 2007 Jaguar XK is the first of it’s kind since the production was ceased in 2005 on the XK product line.  What was once Jaguar’s fastest-selling sports model is now back for another test drive.  The greatest challenge facing designers was to produce a model ...

The 2006 Jaguar XK Victory Editions: A Celebration of Jaguar's Success in Trans-Am Racing Making their world debut today at the 2005 Los Angeles Auto Show, the 2006 model year Jaguar XK Victory Editions celebrate Jaguar's four championship wins in the North American Trans-Am road ...