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 | Warwickshire and it's connections to the Car Industry - Jaguar |
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Founded in 1922, Jaguar is a manufacturer of luxury and executive motor cars, headquartered in Coventry, England, and now operated as part of the Jaguar Land Rover business owned by Tata Motors of India.
Jaguar was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company by Sir William Lyons, originally making motorcycle sidecars before switching to passenger cars. The name was changed to Jaguar after World War II due to the unfavourable connotations of the 'SS' initials. |
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Links with Coventry & Warwickshire
Jaguar cars are designed at the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Engineering Centre in Whitley, Coventry. The facility has a fully integrated design, research and development centre for all current and future Jaguar products.
Coventry also houses the smaller Jaguar Veneer Manufacturing Centre in Allesley. Home to the Jaguar Daimler Trust Museum and Education Business Partnership Centre.
Located in Gaydon, Warwickshire is the JLR Engineering and Design Centre, which houses the Jaguar Land Rover Engineering and Design team, plus office space for Marketing, Sales and Service and other services including Finance and HR.
The company further has manufacturing plants in Castle Bromwich in Birmingham (Body-in-White Assembly and Paint, Trim and Final Assembly of all XJ, XF and XK products), and Halewood near Liverpool (Body-in-White Assembly and Paint for Jaguar X-Type).
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Current Models |
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Jaguar XF and XFR- a mid-size executive car that was introduced in 2008 to replace the out-going S-Type in the company's line-up. See www.jaguar.com/xf for further details. |
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Jaguar XJ and XJR- a full-size luxury saloon and the carmaker's flagship model. An all new XJ was launched in July 2009, and is expected to go into production at the end of 2009, with deliveries starting in early 2010. See www.jaguar.com/new_xj for further details. |
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Jaguar XK and XKR- a luxury grand tourer that replaces the discontinued Jaguar XJS. The XK is available both as a two-door coupé and two-door cabriolet/convertible. See www.jaguar.com/xk for further details. |
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Further details
See the official Jaguar website at www.jaguar.com for further details including history of the brand, car specifications, prices and images.
With thanks to Wikipedia for the above text - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jaguar_cars.
Top Speed Jaguar Wallpapers - see www.topspeed.com/cars/jaguar. |
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