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Tata Motors-owned luxury brand Jaguar Land Rover has today (December 19) launched the made-in-India SUV Range Rover Sport in the Indian market. The new car has been introduced with features like massaging front seats and heads-up display.
The luxury SUV has been launched with two variants. This includes the P400 Dynamic HSE and D350 Dynamic HSE and both are priced at Rs 1.45 crore (ex-showroom). The car is priced Rs 5 lakh more than the price of the locally assembled Range Rover Sport as the brand has discontinued the Dynamic SE variant.
At the same time, the Made in India SUV is Rs 25 lakh cheaper than the completely built unit and will compete with luxury SUV cars like Porsche Cayenne (starting at Rs 1.43 crore) and BMW X7 (starting at Rs 1.3 crore) in India. For the next few months, JLR will introduce 5 variants of the Range Rover Sport.
Jaguar to launch 8 EVs in India by 2030 Currently, the Land Rover Range Rover lineup consists of the Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, Range Rover Velar and Range Rover Evoque. Apart from this, Range Rover is also preparing a full electric SUV. This all-electric Range Rover Sport will be launched by 2025, which will be manufactured only in the UK.
Tata will make batteries for Jaguar Tata Group had announced to set up a global battery cell gigafactory in the UK. In this, the company will make batteries for Jaguar Land Rover and other companies. Tata Group had announced to invest 4 billion pounds i.e. more than Rs 42 thousand crore to establish a global battery cell gigafactory. The 40GWh gigafactory will be the largest in Europe and Tata’s first factory outside India. Production in the new Gigafactory is scheduled to start from 2026.
Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran (left) meets British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (right), after the announcement of the Global Battery Cell Gigafactory.
Tata bought Jaguar-Landrover in 2008 In 2008, when Ford was on the verge of bankruptcy. Then Tata decided to buy Ford’s luxury brand Jaguar-Land Rover (JLR). This deal was done for 2.3 billion dollars (9300 crore rupees at that time).