Sport Utility Vehicle Owners of America (SUVOA) yesterday called on Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge to step up intelligence and federal enforcement action against The Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a militant environmental group that took responsibility for destroying vehicles at a Santa Fe, New Mexico Land Rover dealership, and US Forest Service construction equipment
Ford Motor's Mercury is the most under-appreciated of brands on the US market for quality, while Ford's Land Rover is the most over-appreciated, according to a report by Wall Street broker Morgan Stanley.
The Land Rover Range Stormer concept will be badged Range Sport when it goes on sale in 2005.
Workers represented by the Amicus trade union at Land Rover will be staging a 24-hour strike on 26th January as part of their continuing action to reject the company's pay offer.
Ford's Premier Automotive Group – comprising Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin and Volvo – is reported to have returned a profit for the first time since it was formed in the late 1990s.
Land Rover unveiled its first ever concept show car, the Range Stormer today, 5 January, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Land Rover's Adventure Zone at Bluewater in Kent has won the 'Best Leisure Marketing Campaign of 2003' award in this year's Property Week awards.
Amicus members at Land Rover's plant in Solihull will start industrial action in a week's time, beginning with a continuous ban on overtime commencing on Monday 22nd December.
The Amicus union says its members at Land Rover's Solihull plant have voted approximately 60% to 40% in support of strike action over the company's pay offer of 6.5% over two years, and the TGWU and GMB members at Land Rover have also voted in support of strike action.
Land Rover will complete the roll out of its Global Technical Reference (GTR) website, www.landrovertechinfo.com, this month, designed to provide users with 24-hour access to detailed vehicle maintenance information.
Probably the most important Land Rover ever, The all-new Discovery, which goes on sale mid-2004, will underpin both the product strategy and financial health of the world's only specialist four-wheel drive manufacturer for the rest of the decade.
Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) members working at Land Rover voted in a ballot on Thursday 23 October to reject an offer of a 6.5% pay rise over two years, by 5,055 votes to 1,117.
New Jaguar and Land Rover president Joe Greenwell is telling executives that there will be no let-up in the drive to put higher quality into each new model. But he also stresses that every upgrade will have to be accompanied by lower costs and improved productivity.
Although the Automotive Academy announced by the Government will not be fully operational until later next year, BMW, Honda, Jaguar, Land Rover, MG Rover Group, Nissan, and Leyland Trucks are amongst those who have already appointed senior directors to sit on the Academy's Project Board.
Following three days of extensive discussions the trade unions at Land Rover, including the largest manufacturing trade union Amicus, have rejected the company's final offer.
Reg Vardy plc has completed the acquisition of the trade and assets of one Jaguar and three Land Rover dealerships from Dutton-Forshaw. The acquisition completes the North East market area for these two marques.
Dealer group Reg Vardy plc has provided the following update on current trading at its Annual General Meeting. The Group reports it has has made a good start to the financial year and is continuing its expansion by acquisition.
Bob Dover, the chairman and chief executive of Jaguar and Land Rover has quit, 12 months after taking the job. Dover's departure comes only a month after Ford of Europe product guru, Martin Leech left the carmaker after huge financial losses.
Diamond Land Rover – based in Welwyn Garden City – has been taken over by the Pilling Motor Group.
While launching the 2004 model year Freelander at Frankfurt, Land Rover MD Matthew Taylor gave journalists a brief glimpse of a design “that will inspire our future product line-up and also gives a strong hint of one of our future models”.
