The South Korean newspaper Chosun IIlbo has quoted a Hyundai Motor executive confirming that Hyundai had rejected an offer from Ford to buy Jaguar, with or without Land Rover.
Land Rover’s design director, Geoff Upex, is to retire from the company at the end of this year after 23 years of service.
Land Rover has confirmed to AM its plans for a new corporate identity programme, dubbed the 21st Century Retail Environment, due to be rolled out next year.
Ford is to spend at least £1 billion developing a range of global environmental technologies in the UK for its Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo brands.
AM understands that Land Rover is planning to update its corporate identity within the next 12 to 18 months. Dealership totems, signs, tiles and other internal fittings are set to be revised.
Land Rover’s next Freelander is likely to have an entry-level point £5,000 more expensive than the model it will replace at the end of the year.
Women's tennis star Maria Sharapova has revealed her admiration for the love for Land Rovers.
European Motor Holdings has acquired a Land Rover dealership from the Hartwell Group in St Helens for £500,000.
Land Rover’s flagship luxury 4x4, the Range Rover, has been revised and includes a new TDV8 diesel engine for 2007.
Land Rover is a finalist at the 2006 Apprenticeship Awards.
Land Rover will launch an upgraded version of its Defender model in 2007.
Hyundai believes that its new Santa Fe is capable of progressing into the territory occupied by premium SUVs such as the ubiquitous BMW X5, Land Rover Discovery and Volvo XC90.
Matthew Taylor has resigned as managing director of Land Rover and will leave the carmaker at Easter, to be replaced by Phil Popham.
Ford has dropped plans to create 1,000 jobs building its updated small Land Rover at its Halewood factory. It has decided instead to shift workers from the plant’s Jaguar production line, which has cut back output.
Seventy apprentices from Jaguar and Land Rover's dealer training programme will soon be packing up their overalls and preparing to embark on two global community projects.
Land Rover has confirmed 1,300 job losses at its Solihull plant - as the company enjoys the biggest sales boom in its 58 year-history.
Land Rover has achieved its best sales performance in its history last year, with 185,120 vehicles sold around the world, an increase of 14% on 2004.
Land Rover is planning a drive to encourage buyers of its cars to use its approved bodyshop network if they are involved in an accident. Its decision follows a similar move by Jaguar, its Ford PAG stablemate.
Walon UK has won a contract with Land Rover to distribute new cars to its UK dealer network.
HR Owen, the debt-ridden dealer group, is selling its Jaguar, Volvo and Land Rover operation in East Anglia to Lookers.
