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Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) has opened a £20m technical centre near Coventry. SVO was set up in June 2014 to personalise cars and provide classic car and branded goods programmes for customers. The £20m centre has manufacturing, paint and technical facilities and includes a customer commissioning and presentation area. John Edwards, managing director of Jaguar Land Rover ...

Cambria has acquired the Jaguar and Land Rover franchise in South Woodford, North London from Pendragon for £2.1m, including £2m goodwill. This business has a sales facility in South Woodford and an aftersales facility in Hainault, Essex operating from leasehold premises. The group now operates five Jaguar and four Land Rover dealerships under the Grange trading name. The acquisition is ...

Jaguar’s confidence in the success of its first entrant into the SUV market is well placed. It looks great, offers genuine practicality, drives well and gives dealers a conquest opportunity in the fastest growing part of the premium sector. The all-new F-Pace benefits from a great design that doesn’t compromise its ‘Jaguar-ness’.  Length-wise it sits between an Audi Q5 and ...

The latest episode of the Motor Trade Radio podcast, co-hosted by Derek Blair and Philip Nothard, kicks off with a roundup of the industry headlines from Motor Trader magazine. Robin Luscombe, managing director of Luscombe Suzuki, discusses what is believed to be an industry first: the ability to post a 360 degree view of a car’s interior to promoted used ...

Peter Vardy is pushing ahead with an £8m Jaguar Land Rover dealership in Aberdeen. The business is on course to open later this year, with a renewed focus on customer service, adopting the new look. Ogilvie Construction, which last year completed the Porsche Centre Aberdeen nearby, is building the facility. The building will be on two floors, ground and mezzanine, ...

Pendragon’s luxury car division Stratstone has acquired a £1m Lightweight Jaguar E-type, one of only six developed and built by Jaguar Heritage part of Jaguar Land Rover’s new Special Operations division. Stratstone has acquired the third car in the new run, chassis number 15, and will use it for special showroom events. It is currently on display in the downstairs ...

Vertu Motors has bought Leeds Jaguar from Inchcape Retail for £650,000, including £500,000 of goodwill. The move forms part of Jaguar Land Rover’s strategy to have both brands under common ownership in each UK market territory. The break-even Jaguar business will operate from its current premises in the short term and will then relocate to a newly developed site alongside ...

The group announced today that it has bought the Grange Jaguar Croydon dealership from Cambria. Renamed Harwoods Jaguar of Croydon, the existing site will be used for servicing, MOT testing, maintenance and repairs. The group will be moving the sales operation to its Land Rover location in Coulsdon nearby. Harwoods recently announced that it had sold its Land Rover dealership ...

Caffyns is selling its Land Rover business in Lewes, West Sussex to Harwood for £5.7m. The deal, which excludes the freehold and is expected to be completed on 29 April, was prompted Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) decision not to renew its contract with Caffyns to sell Land Rover vehicles. JLR is shaking up its Jaguar and Land Rover networks with ...

Rybrook Group has bought Jaguar and Land Rover businesses in Huddersfield and a Land Rover dealership in Halifax from Perrys for an undisclosed sum. The deal is part of the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) shake-up of the two networks with a view to achieving common ownership for the two brands in each market territory. The businesses will trade as Rybrook ...