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Land Rover’s iconic Defender SUV will finally see a replacement around 2013, after spending 61 years on the market.  Land Rover’s off-roading image was built largely on the capabilities of the Defender, which has yet to see a major redesign to its bodywork since 1983.
If you don’t remember the Defender, it’s probably because Land Rover [...]

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Tata Motors, owner of Jaguar and Land Rover, said that it has raised $750 million by issuing global depositary receipts and convertible bonds to pay down debt. The debt was taken on for its acquisition of loss-making Jaguar and Land Rover, which it bought from FoMoCo last year.
Tata had a consolidated debt of around 240 billion [...]

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Land Rover’s seven-seat Freelander, which was due out next year, has been postponed because the company claims, as one source told AutoCar, “we have other priorities,”.
The automaker will instead focus its energies on developing the LRX, expected to launch in 2012 and sell around 70,000 units.
Land Rover confirmed production of the LRX 2 weeks ago. [...]

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Tata Motors said today that it will close one of the three Jaguar/Land Rover assembly plants in England by 2014 in an effort to move the two brands to profitability. Tata said that it will close either a factory in Castle Bromwich, which makes Jaguars, or its plant in Solihull, which makes Land Rovers.
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After what seems to be like ages since Land Rover unveiled the LRX Concept, the Gaydon automaker confirmed today that it will in fact build a production version of the study. Land Rover said that the car will debut next year and will join the Range Rover line-up in 2011.
“Designed and engineered at Land Rover’s [...]

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On June 17, 2010, Range Rover will celebrate its 40th anniversary and, if sources are to be believed, will unveil a new model based on the Land Rover LRX Concept. According to insiders that spoke with AutoCar, the Ranger Rover LRX will enter production in early 2011. The production LRX will be unveiled as a [...]

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A UK government spokesperson said today that Tata Motors has secured a 175 million pound ($289 million) private sector loan for Jaguar Land Rover and no longer needs financial support from Britain. The Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has been holding talks with Tata and Jaguar Land Rover on guaranteeing both short and long-term [...]

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Tata Motors, creator of the world’s cheapest car and owner of luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover, reported a 58 percent rise in net profit, defying analyst forecasts for a halving of profit. The Indian automaker reported a net profit of 5.14 billion rupees ($107 million) in the quarter to June, from 3.26 billion rupees a year [...]

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Over the years, its has become pretty clear that tuning specialist Overfinch is to Range Rover as AMG is to Mercedes and Alpina is to BMW. The tuning firm has now teamed up with gun maker Holland & Holland to build the “ultimate luxury-off roader.”
Based on the 2010 503-up supercharged Range Rover Autobiography, the SUV [...]

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