Jaguar Cars, Ltd. is an automobile manufacturer of luxury and executive cars operating under the Jaguar marque. The company's headquarters are in Coventry, England, where it was founded by Sir William Lyons in 1922. It has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indian company Tata Motors, Ltd. since 2008, where it is operated as part of Jaguar Land Rover group.
Welcome to CWAnswers
CWAnswers is your guide to the sprawling world wide web. The directory aims to provide a useful guide made by users. You can share your knowledge as well - simply sign up and edit your first entry. For questions just contact the team at support - at - cwanswers.com.
Weblinks for Jaguar Cars
Top 10 for Jaguar Cars
Things about Jaguar Cars you find nowhere else.
Select content modules
Jaguar Cars News
With news, reviews, and information on classic and new Jaguar cars. ... Jaguar Cars Blog is not owned, affiliated with or endorsed by Jaguar Cars Ltd, ...www.jaguar-cars-blog.com/Jaguar Cars - Jaguar Blog
Jaguar's Racing History. Jaguar Blog. English Automotive Pedigree - Jaguar Cars. Mar 27 2009. Finding cheap Car Insurance for Jaguar cars ...jaguarblog.net/Jaguar | Vol Cars Blog
... Jaguar XKB Convertible Car. The Jaguar XK8 Convertible car that ... © Copyright 2008 by Vol Cars Blog. All Rights Reserved. Proudly Powered by Wordpress ...www.volcars.com/blog/tag/jaguar/Jaguar - Cars - Blogs.ca
... months ago that Jaguar was to remain in ... Posted by Ian Carlin - Cars - Blogs.ca. December 8, 2006 ... Jaguar Unveils Three New Models at British Motor Show ...cars.blogs.ca/category/manufacturer/jaguar/Jaguar XK News
Jaguar XK News - Information and reviews on both new and classic Jaguar XK, ... Jaguar XK Blog is not owned, endorsed by or affiliated with Jaguar Cars Limited. ...www.jaguar-xk-blog.com/Jaguar Cars, Ltd. is an automobile manufacturer of luxury and executive cars operating under the Jaguar marque. The company's headquarters are in Coventry, England, where it was founded by Sir William Lyons in 1922. It has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indian company Tata Motors, Ltd. since 2008, where it is operated as part of Jaguar Land Rover group.
Following several subsequent changes of ownership since the 1960s, Jaguar was listed on the London Stock Exchange and became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, which ended when Ford acquired Jaguar in 1989. The company holds Royal Warrants from HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Charles.
The name is , except in North America, where it is ; the term "Jag" is used to refer to the cars colloquially.
History
Founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922, by two motorcycle enthusiasts, Sir William Lyons and William Walmsley, the SS Jaguar name first appeared on a 2.5 litre saloon in 1935, sports models of which were the SS 90 and SS 100. The Jaguar name was given to the entire company in 1945 when the SS was dropped due to lack of popularity from WWII.

Jaguar merged with the British Motor Corporation (BMC), the Austin-Morris combine, to form British Motor Holdings (BMH) in 1966. After merging with Leyland, which had already taken over Rover and Standard Triumph, the resultant company then became the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC) in 1968. Financial difficulties and the publication of the Ryder Report led to effective nationalisation in 1975 and the company became British Leyland, Ltd. (later simply BL plc).
In the 1970s the Jaguar and Daimler marques formed part of BL's specialist car division or Jaguar Rover Triumph Ltd until a restructure in the early 1980s saw most of the BL volume car manufacturing side becoming the Austin Rover Group within which Jaguar was not included. In 1984, Jaguar was floated off as a separate company on the stock market — one of the Thatcher government's many privatisations.
Ford Motor Company

Since Land Rover's 2002 purchase by Ford, it has been closely associated with Jaguar. In many countries they share a common sales and distribution network (including shared dealerships), and some models now share components, although the only shared production facility is Halewood, for the X-Type and the Freelander 2. However operationally the two companies were effectively integrated under a common management structure within Ford's PAG.
On 11 June 2007, Ford announced that it planned to sell Jaguar, along with Land Rover and retained the services of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and HSBC to advise it on the deal. The sale was initially expected to be announced by September 2007, but was delayed until March 2008. Private equity firms such as Alchemy Partners of the UK, TPG Capital, Ripplewood Holdings (which hired former Ford Europe executive Sir Nick Scheele to head its bid), Cerberus Capital Management and One Equity Partners (owned by JP Morgan Chase and managed by former Ford executive Jacques Nasser) of the US, Tata Motors of India and a consortium comprising Mahindra and Mahindra (an auto manufacturer from India) and Apollo Management all initially expressed interest in purchasing the marques from the Ford Motor Company.

























