Jaguar Cars is the luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Cars Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England.
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33 Facts About Jaguar Cars
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Jaguar Cars was the company that was responsible for the production of Jaguar cars until its operations were fully merged with those of Land Rover to form Jaguar Land Rover on 1 January 2013.
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Jaguar Cars was spun off from British Leyland and was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984, becoming a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Ford in 1990.
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Jaguar Cars holds royal warrants from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles.
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Ford owned Jaguar Cars, buying Land Rover in 2000, until 2008 when it sold both to Tata Motors.
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At operating company level, in 2013 Jaguar Cars was merged with Land Rover to form Jaguar Land Rover Limited as the single design, manufacture, sales company and brand owner for both Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles.
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Jaguar Cars Limited, finding new capital by issuing shares to the public.
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Jaguar Cars first appeared in September 1935 as a model name on an SS 2½-litre sports saloon.
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From this time Jaguar Cars was entirely dependent for their bodies on external suppliers, in particular then independent Pressed Steel and in 1966 that carried them into BMC, BMH and British Leyland.
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Subsequent engine was the mainstay powerplant of Jaguar Cars, used in the XK 120, Mk VII Saloon, Mk I and II Saloons and XK 140 and 150.
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In 1950, Jaguar Cars agreed to lease from the Ministry of Supply the Daimler Shadow 2 factory in Browns Lane, Allesley, Coventry, which at the time was being used by The Daimler Company Limited and moved to the new site from Foleshill over the next 12 months.
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Jaguar Cars purchased Daimler – not to be confused with Daimler-Benz or Daimler AG—in 1960 from BSA.
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Jaguar Cars therefore accepted BMC's offer to merge with Jaguar to form British Motor Limited.
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Under Ford's ownership Jaguar Cars expanded its range of products with the launch of the S-Type in 1999 and X-type in 2001.
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Jaguar Cars was to be used as a holding company for the acquisition of the two businesses from Ford – Jaguar Cars Limited and Land Rover.
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The parent company was renamed to Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC, Jaguar Cars Limited was renamed to Jaguar Land Rover Limited and the assets of Land Rover were transferred to it.
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Jaguar Cars started using the Jaguar name whilst based in Holbrooks Lane.
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Jaguar Cars acquired the Whitley engineering centre from Peugeot in 1986; which had originally been part of Chrysler Europe which the French firm had owned since the late 1970s.
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The decision to offload the site to Jaguar came as Peugeot discontinued the Talbot brand for passenger cars.
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In 2000, Ford turned its Halewood plant over to Jaguar Cars following the discontinuation of its long running Escort that year for Jaguar Cars's new X-Type model.
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Jaguar Cars E-Pace is a compact SUV, officially revealed on 13 July 2017.
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Jaguar Cars I-Pace is an electric SUV, officially revealed on 1 March 2018.
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Jaguar Cars XF is a mid-size executive car introduced in 2008 to replace the S-Type.
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Jaguar Cars began producing R models in 1995 with the introduction of the first XJR, and the first XKR was introduced in 1997.
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Jaguar Cars was saved by its new equally capacious but very much trimmer new XJ6.
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Jaguar Cars X-Type was a compact executive car launched in 2001, while the company was under Ford ownership, sharing its platform with the Ford Mondeo.
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Jaguar Cars XK was a luxury grand tourer introduced in 2006, where it replaced the XK8.
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Jaguar Cars responded to the criticism with the introduction of the fourth generation XJ, launched in 2009.
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Jaguar Cars has had major success in sports car racing, particularly in the Le Mans 24 Hours.
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The Jaguar Cars XJR-14 was the last of the XJRs to win, taking the 1991 World Sportscar Championship.
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On 15 June 2018, Jaguar Cars Vector Racing broke the world speed record for an electric battery powered boat.
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In 2011, Jaguar Cars presented the exhibition series "Shadows", which involved the installation of Szczesny's shadow sculptures in Sankt-Moritz, on Sylt and in Saint-Tropez.
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