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Land Roveri

Jaguar Land Rover makes and sells Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of India-based Tata Motors. Ford bought Jaguar in 1989 and Land Rover in 2000 and brought them together to build up its premium car business in 2002, but sold them to Tata in 2008.

 

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  • Around 300 early Land Rovers once plied the hills of Manebhanjyang, brought in by British tea planters to traverse the unforgiving terrain
  • Later, enterprising locals snapped up the vehicles to use as taxis and to transport goods, but in 2018 a court ordered that their commercial use be phased out

If you want the sexiest Range Rover, buy the Range Rover Velar – far from the most practical or economical purchase, it’s the frivolous splurge petrolheads need amid a pandemic

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If it looks like a Land Rover and purrs like a Land Rover, it could be a copycat. In yet another instance of the mainland's fabled knock-off prowess, carmaker LandWind has just launched its newest model, X7, which is a striking lookalike of Evoque.

Tata Motors' Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) opened its first plant in China in Changshu - 110km northwest of Shanghai - yesterday, allowing the carmaker to cut prices and boost sales in the world's largest car market.