Jaguar Land Rover Opens Engine Plant In UK
Queen Elizabeth presided over the opening ceremonies for the first new auto plant in the UK in recent memory, as Jaguar Land Rover opened their new engine facility in Wolverhampton.
The plant, which has created an estimated 1,500 direct jobs and nearly 7,000 indirect jobs, will produce JLR’s new family of “Ingenium” engines, with a 4-cylinder diesel being among the first to roll off the line.
The engines will appear in the all new Jaguar XE and Land Rover Discovery Sport, and spread to the rest of the lineup as future products are introduced. For a UK motoring industry that has seen decade after decade of layoffs and plant closures, the opening of a new auto factory is a momentous occasion. JLR’s Halewood plant, once the site of a Ford assembly plant, is now running at full capacity, cranking out the Range Rover Evoque around the clock.
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Yeah. The Brits feel all warm and fuzzy about the jobs. The fact that its JLR setting up shop back in recognizable turf can't hurt, either. Still a Tata, y'ain't foolin' me. Assembly in The Old Country or not.
I remember this story line from "King Ralph."
I didnt think it was that long ago that the Rolls Royce Goodwood plant opened?
It's great that Land Rovers and Jag-you-are's are getting British engines. I just hope they wise up and get their electronics from the Japanese.