Alfa to work with Jaguar on new vehicle platforms, dealerships?
Click above for high-res gallery of the Alfa Mi.ToHot on the heels of the impending sale official sale of Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata and news that Fiat is looking to start producing Alfa Romeo vehicles in the U.S. are reports that Fiat would be interested in partnering up with the new Jaguar ownership to share rear-wheel-drive platforms for their high-end Alfa models. Tata and Fiat already have close ties, as Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, is a member of Fiat's board and the two companies...

Officially Official: Tata buys Jaguar Land Rover for $2.3 billion
Ford has issued a press release confirming that it has sold both Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors for an approximate price of $2.3 billion, which comes under some numbers as high as $2.65 billion that were being tossed around yesterday. The rumor that Ford will contribute to pension funds associated with the brands is also true, as it confirmed that $600 million will be dropped into the retirement coffers of the brands once the deal closes. It is, of course, subject to regulatory approval in a...

Jaguar/Land Rover prognostications come out of woodwork
With the sale of Jaguar and Land Rover really, truly official, it hasn't taken long for every automotive news outlet to come out with its own take on the future of both storied marques.Autoweek distilled Jaguar and Land Rover's product offerings over the next eight years into about 800 words, beginning with the 2009 Jaguar XFR and XKR. According to its sources, both of these high-performance cats will be powered by all-new 5.0-liter, direct-injected V8s, with the naturally aspirated version producing...

Jaguar sales expected to double with Tata help
Jaguar finally changed hands this week with Indian carmaker Tata paying $2.3 billion for both the luxury brand and Land Rover. Although this seems like good value for Tata, Jaguar’s performance of late has been dire. The carmaker sold less than 54,000 units in all of 2007, down from about 70,000 units just one year prior but, with the financial backing of Tata and the hands-of-approach to management Indian execs have in store, sales could potentially double within the next couple of years. A reporty...

Jaguar and Land Rover pose a number of problems for Tata
While Jaguar and Land Rover will be getting a much-needed resuscitation from Tata and its deep pockets, stricter emissions and fuel-economy regulations set to roll in over the next decade as well as continual reliability and quality issues are likely to prove to be problematic for the new Indian parent. Land Rover doesn’t have a single model that comes near the EU’s proposed 120g/km CO2 fleet average emissions rating, let alone an entire fleet averaging this, while Jaguar’s emissions levels...

Jaguar sales expected to double with Tata help
Jaguar finally changed hands this week with Indian carmaker Tata paying $2.3 billion for both the luxury brand and Land Rover. Although this seems like good value for Tata, Jaguar’s performance of late has been dire. The carmaker sold less than 54,000 units in all of 2007, down from about 70,000 units just one year prior but, with the financial backing of Tata and the hands-of-approach to management Indian execs have in store, sales could potentially double within the next couple of years. A reporty...

Jaguar buy seen as sign India has arrived
NEW DELHI -- To understand India's economic rise, look to its cars. The iconic Indian automobile of a generation ago was the Ambassador, a noisy, boxy clunker that was ubiquitous despite its ungainly 1950s style. Compare that with the newest Indian-owned line of cars, the famously sleek and sophisticated Jaguar, which Tata Motors, India's biggest auto company, purchased Wednesday, along with Land Rover, in a landmark $2.3 billion deal. The vehicle upgrade could be a metaphor for the transformation the...

Blast from the past: 1992 Jaguar XJ220
It’s hard to imagine but not that long ago Jaguar laid claim to building the world’s fastest production car with its XJ220 supercar, which during the early 1990s was speed king until it was knocked off its throne by the McLaren F1. The car featured a turbocharged mid-mounted V6 developing 549hp 409kW and was capable of reaching a top speed of 217mph 350km/h. The idea of first building the car arose after a team of Jaguar enthusiasts envisaged developing a new supercar that could beat the Ferraris...

First Drive: 2008 Jaguar XF
Click above for high-res gallery from our First Drive of the Jaguar XFThe timing of our first hands-on experience with the Jaguar XF is, to say the least, awkward. Less than a week after Ford agreed to sell both Jaguar and Land Rover to India's Tata Motors, we find ourselves in sunny San Diego behind the wheel of Jag's supposed savior. While the business end of the equation will be exhaustively covered in the coming months, the renaissance underway at Tata's newly acquired pet is of equal importance...

Jaguar XF outsells entire brand
Click above for more high-res pics of the Jaguar XFMarch 2008 was the first month of sales for the Jaguar XF, and while we haven't seen any around town yet, the Hail Mary sedan from Coventry is selling extremely well... at least by Jaguar standards. The Jaguar brand has consistently been losing sales month over month since we began reporting sales numbers in our By the Numbers posts. In February 2008, the brand sold just 1,063 units. As you've already seen, March 2008 sales numbers have been released...