A new Jaguar Land Rover model is to be built on a new platform developed by the British brands’ parent firm Tata, and this model will be launched next year, reported Autocar. This new Tata-developed platform will also underpin a ‘high-end’ Tata model, Tata Group chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran was quoted as saying.
Both upcoming models will be built in an all-new factory in India, and there are plans for the models to be exported to markets outside India, according to the report.
“We’re able to bring the cost attitude of Tata Motors with the design sophistication of [Jaguar Land Rover]. Then you get the benefit occurring for both in two different ways and the volumes go up, which justifies the investment that goes into the platform,” Chandrasekaran told Autocar India.
The chairman of the Tata Group had not confirmed what branding, or powertrains the new models would get, however these upcoming models are not expected to be electrified as the Indian market continues to be heavily dependent on internal combustion engines, Autocar observed.
Given the possible India-centric emphasis, these upcoming models are therefore likely to be sold exclusively in Asian markets to build a strong business case before exporting to other regions can be considered. Jaguar Land Rover vehicle assembly operations in India currently takes place in Pune, where Land Rover and Range Rover models are assembled from knock-down kits made for the Indian market.
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@Mick Chan, check the actual interview for the facts before publishing some garbage , what the Chairman quoted was that Tata and Landrover are jointly developing an architecture to share costs of the high R&D initial costs where Tata volumes and LR together can share their synergies and justify the high R&D costs. But no where its mentioned that Tata platform to rebrand as LR. Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCdIYnGSW8 if you actually care for the facts.
Deeply disappointed by misquoting what the Tata Chairman has told on the interview, it is expected from western journalists not again from Asian journalists. verify your facts
What to expect from the crynese haha. They innately hate Indians who fought every major war but forget Japs’ atrocities towards them. Funny minions.
Hello there, you racist piece of troll sh*t.
Haha stating facts is racist? troll? Funny la u, just like your name
3 million indians in bay of bengal starved due to famine causes by British during ww2.
but why today indians are so friendly with Britain? forgot the atrocities? funny minions
ironically indians foguht in ww1 and ww2 wars not because willingly but because they were forced to fight, being minions and serfs of British
“crynese” – are indians innately hate or jealous of the chinese as demonstrated by you ??? btw india supplied all the “british” opium to china which was reported to have killed >50 million chinese over its “100 years of humiliation” and indian stole chinese tea before the brits created “india” in 1947 – just some historical facts …
ICE FTW! <3
Maybe can put into consideration for promotion. Buy TaTa land rover gets free Titan watch and apparel and belts and bags etc. Titan is also owns by TaTa ok.
Good decision. EV is just a novelty.
Tata has serious economies of scale. But maybe it’s time for Tata to consider financing the group’s R&D for a new ICE powertrain platform to replace the Ingenium engines which have given JLR a bad reliability notoriety. Continue using ZF transmissions for RWD vehicles and maybe consider Aisin transmissions for FWD and transverse AWD vehicles. Use a back-to-basics engine design without snap-on plastic connectors and so many molded plastic parts. Plagiarize Toyota engine design elements and adapt it into their own platform, rather than following the European trend of easy-to-manufacture and easy-to-assemble engines that fail within a few years.
“Tata-developed platform”
That is already enough to put off a lot of I interests in the new models. Who in the right state of mind would want an expensive SUV with Indian designed platform?
Lousy cars la. Waste of time