First production vehicle driven off Liverpool plant
TATA-OWNED JAGUAR-LAND ROVER have started the production of their smallest SUV, the Range Rover Evoque, at Land Rover’s Halewood facility in the UK.
The company said it had already received over 18,000 advance bookings for the vehicle from different parts of the world.
The offi cial launch is scheduled for August 19, which will be just one of the 40 new product actions that J-LR propose to carry out in the next fi ve years. The company will also introduce two new variants of the sports utility vehicles Discovery 4 and Range Rover Sport in October this year in the UK, the on-road prices of which will start from £37,995 (about Rs 27 lakh).
Both the ‘2012 Model Year Discovery 4’ and ‘2012 Model Year Range Rover Sport’ will come equipped with eight-speed automatic transmissions and will be powered by 3.0-litre diesel engines.
