In India, where it sells cars such as the Range Rover Evoque, Discovery Sport and Jaguar F-Pace, it is still a niche brand. The models sold in India are exported from Britain as fully built vehicles or in parts that are then assembled at a plant near Pune city.
JLR contributes about two-thirds of Tata's revenue and in the financial year ended March 2023 the Indian company reported its first annual profit in five years, helped by strong demand for sporty Range Rover SUVs and Jaguar saloons.
The British brand saw retail sales surge 22% globally in the past financial year to nearly 432,000 cars. In India, where it competes with Mercedes-Benz and BMW, it sold 4,436 though sales were up 81% from a year earlier on growing demand for luxury goods.
It was not immediately clear which JLR models would be built at the factory.
Tata to use new $1bn plant to make Jaguar Land Rover cars: sources
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India's Tata will manufacture Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) luxury cars at a $1bn (R19.03bn) plant it is planning to build in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
The plan would mark the first time that JLR-branded cars would be manufactured from scratch in India.
The cars would be sold domestically and also exported, according to one of the sources, who declined to be identified as the plans were private.
Tata, which acquired JLR in 2008, declined to comment on what it called speculation. It announced plans for the Tamil Nadu plant in March but did not disclose what vehicles would be manufactured there or the plant's intended production capacity.
JLR has three car factories in Britain and also builds cars in China, Brazil and Slovakia.
JLR aims to generate more than a third of its own power globally by 2030
In India, where it sells cars such as the Range Rover Evoque, Discovery Sport and Jaguar F-Pace, it is still a niche brand. The models sold in India are exported from Britain as fully built vehicles or in parts that are then assembled at a plant near Pune city.
JLR contributes about two-thirds of Tata's revenue and in the financial year ended March 2023 the Indian company reported its first annual profit in five years, helped by strong demand for sporty Range Rover SUVs and Jaguar saloons.
The British brand saw retail sales surge 22% globally in the past financial year to nearly 432,000 cars. In India, where it competes with Mercedes-Benz and BMW, it sold 4,436 though sales were up 81% from a year earlier on growing demand for luxury goods.
It was not immediately clear which JLR models would be built at the factory.
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