Jaguar (engl. Aussprache: [ˈdʒægjuːə] in Großbritannien, [ˈdʒægˌwɑɹ] in den Vereinigten Staaten) ist eine britische Automobil-Marke des Herstellers Jaguar Land Rover.
Es besteht ein Entwicklungszentrum in Whitley im Süden von Coventry sowie Werke in Castle Bromwich bei Birmingham und Halewood bei Liverpool (alle in Großbritannien). Ab Ende 1989 gehörte das Unternehmen zur Premier Automotive Group von Ford, die es im März 2008 zusammen mit Land Rover an Tata Motors verkaufte.[1]
Am 28. Dezember 2012 wurde das Geschäft der Land Rover Private Unlimited Company[2] auf die Jaguar Cars Limited übertragen und im Zuge dessen auf Jaguar Land Rover Limited umfirmiert. Die Land Rover Private Unlimited Company besteht weiterhin, die Markennamen werden separat weitergeführt.
Offizielle Jaguar Website: http://www.jaguarlandrover.com
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Jaguar Cars (/ˈdʒæɡjuː.ər/ JAG-ew-ər) is a brand of Jaguar Land Rover,[6] a British multinational car manufacturer headquartered in Whitley, Coventry, England, owned by the Indian company Tata Motors[7] since 2008.
Jaguar’s business was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922, originally making motorcycle sidecars before developing bodies for passenger cars. Under the ownership of S. S. Cars Limited the business extended to complete cars. The name S. S. Cars was changed to “Jaguar” in 1945. A merger with the British Motor Corporation followed in 1966,[8] the resulting enlarged company now being renamed as British Motor Holdings (BMH), which in 1968 merged with Leyland Motor Corporation and became British Leyland, itself to be nationalised in 1975.
Jaguar was de-merged from British Leyland and was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984, becoming a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Ford in 1990.[9] Jaguar has, in recent years, manufactured cars for the British Prime Minister, the most recent delivery being an XJ in May 2010.[10] The company also holds royal warrants from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles.[11]
Jaguar cars today are designed in Jaguar Land Rover’s engineering centres at the Whitley plant in Coventry and at their Gaydon site in Warwickshire, and are manufactured in Jaguar’s Castle Bromwich assembly plant in Birmingham with some manufacturing expected to take place in the Solihull plant.
In September 2013 Jaguar Land Rover announced plans to open a 100 million GBP (160 million USD) research and development centre in the University of Warwick, Coventry to create a new generation of vehicle technologies. The carmaker said around 1,000 academics and engineers would work there and that construction would start in 2014.
Official Jaguar Website: http://www.jaguarlandrover.com
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Here you can see a video from the production plant: