Jaguar Land Rover has six main facilities for research and development, manufacturing and vehicle assembly, of which five are in the UK and one in India.
Jaguar Land Rover Gaydon Centre, Warwickshire – an engineering and development facility which was formerly the Land Rover headquarters. Formerly an RAF bomber base before being acquired by British Leyland and redeveloped as a vehicle design, development and testing centre.
Whitley plant, Coventry – an engineering and development site and headquarters of Jaguar Land Rover which was formerly the Jaguar Cars head office. This site was acquired from Peugeot in the 1980s, and was formerly a First World War airfield, an aircraft factory and then a missile factory before being sold to the Rootes Group (later Chrysler Europe).
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JLR is a partner in the National Automotive Innovation Centre at the University of Warwick, Coventry.
Vehicle assembly plants:
Jaguar Land Rover Halewood, Halewood, Merseyside. Used by Jaguar Land Rover for Land Rover production. Originally a Ford assembly plant (the Ford Escort being its most prolific model) it was given to Jaguar in 2000 for production of the X-Type. Ford still owns the transmission manufacturing operation at Halewood.
Land Rover Discovery Sport, Range Rover Evoque
Solihull plant, Lode Heath, Solihull, West Midlands. Jaguar Land Rover's principal Land Rover assembly plant. This was originally an aircraft engine plant during World War Two, then became a Rover Company plant after the war. It produced Rover passenger cars until 1982, and has been the production site of the classic Land-Rover (both Series and Defender) and the full-size Range Rover for their entire production runs. In 2014, the Jaguar XE became the first Jaguar car to be assembled here, followed by the F-Pace in 2016.
Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, Range Rover Velar, Jaguar F-Pace
Jaguar Land Rover India, Pune, India
Jaguar XF, Range Rover Evoque, Range Rover Velar
Jaguar Land Rover India, Tamil Nadu, India (planned)
Chery Jaguar Land Rover, Changshu, China
Range Rover Evoque, Land Rover Discovery Sport, Jaguar XE, Jaguar XF
JLR Brazil, Itatiaia, Brazil
Range Rover Evoque, Land Rover Discovery Sport
JLR Slovakia, Nitra, Slovakia
Land Rover Discovery, Land Rover Defender
Pressed steel body panel production plant:
Castle Bromwich Assembly, Birmingham. Formerly Jaguar Land Rover's main Jaguar assembly plant before production of complete cars was ended in May 2024. The plant continues to produce pressed steel panel body components for Jaguar cars built elsewhere. Originally an aircraft factory during World War Two – Spitfires were built here – it was later acquired by Pressed Steel Fisher and became a vehicle body assembly works. It came under the auspices of Jaguar through the merger with BMC in the 1960s.
SVO facility:
Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire – where the Special Vehicle Operations development centre was created in 2016. The site was previously used by Rootes for aircraft production plant for World War Two, and later became the Rootes/Chrysler/Peugeot car plant which was closed in 2006 and has since been demolished.
Engine assembly plants:
Engine Manufacturing Centre, Wolverhampton. A £500 million facility located at the i54 site in Staffordshire close to Wolverhampton where the Ingenium family of modular diesel and petrol engines are built. The plant was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday 30 October 2014.
Chery Jaguar Land Rover, Changshu, China.
Planned facilities:
Software engineering facility, Shannon, Ireland
Storage depot, Stone, Staffordshire
Ranipet, Tamil Nadu, India
Co-operations
The Magna Steyr company in Graz, Austria, built the Jaguar E-Pace (2017–2024) and the Jaguar I-Pace (2018–2024).
In 2020, Jaguar Land Rover's UK production facilities were halted for the period from 20 March to 20 April due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Products
Jaguar Land Rover currently sells vehicles under the Jaguar and Land Rover marques.
NOx emissions ratings
In March 2019, Jaguar Land Rover became the first European car producer to submit new cars from its marques to AIR Index to receive NOx emissions ratings.
Future electrification
In September 2017, Jaguar Land Rover announced that all new Jaguar and Land Rover models launched from the 2020 model year will have an all-electric or hybrid powertrain option. In October 2017, JLR announced that its electrification programme will start with the Range Rover Sport P400e for the 2018 model year, a plug-in hybrid model due in the showrooms in late 2017. and be followed by the launch of a plug-in hybrid Range Rover due in 2018 for the 2019 model year. Jaguar Land Rover paid $49.5 million in fines for missing its American Corporate Average Fuel Economy targets over the 2009–2013 model years.
At the beginning of June 2019, JLR and BMW announced that they will collaborate "to develop next generation electric drive units". On 5 July 2019, JLR confirmed that they intended to build an all-electric XJ luxury saloon car, at their Castle Bromwich plant. The car was expected to be launched in 2020. On 15 February 2021, CEO Thierry Bolloré announced that development on the all-electric XJ saloon has been cancelled due to poor sales of saloons in general, as people around the world are preferring crossovers, SUVs, and pick-up trucks over saloons, coupes, convertibles, estates, hatchbacks, and compact cars, especially in the Americas, Oceania, Africa, and the Middle East.
In February 2021, JLR announced that the entire Jaguar range will become all-electric for the 2025 model year. The company also stated that it will introduce its first all-electric Land Rover vehicle in 2023 as a 2024 model year. JLR also stated that it will end production and sales of diesel-powered Land Rover vehicles in 2026, with production and sales of petrol-powered Land Rover vehicles ending in 2030. This will lead to Jaguar Land Rover becoming 100% all-electric by the 2030s. CEO Thierry Bolloré clearly stated that this is to help JLR comply with the incoming more stringent emission standards and the phase-out and banning of fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 from Europe, India, China, South Korea, Japan, United States, etc. due to climate change and air pollution. This also comes after the United Kingdom passed legislation in February 2020, that will ban new sales of all fossil fuel vehicles from the UK by 2030. Bolloré also stated that all the upcoming electric vehicles being introduced by JLR and other car manufacturers should also become more mainstream and eventually overtake fossil fuel vehicles.
Current Jaguar products
Jaguar Type 01 (full size 4-door grand tourer; upcoming)
Former Jaguar products
Jaguar XE (compact executive car)
Jaguar XF (executive saloon & estate)
Jaguar F-Type (sports car - coupé and convertible)
Jaguar E-Pace (high end subcompact luxury SUV)
Jaguar F-Pace (compact luxury SUV)
Jaguar I-Pace (compact luxury electric SUV)
Current Land Rover products
Discovery (mid-size luxury SUV)
Discovery Sport (subcompact luxury SUV)
Defender (off-road luxury 4x4)
Range Rover (full-size luxury SUV)
Range Rover Sport (mid-size luxury SUV)
Range Rover Velar (high end compact luxury SUV)
Range Rover Evoque (high end subcompact luxury SUV)
In September 2026, the Defender Wolf Series II was launched, which will compete for the UK Ministry of Defence Light Mobility Vehicle tender. Initially four variants were announced: a general mobility vehicle, a tactical mobility vehicle, a pickup-style utility vehicle and an ambulance.
