Thread: TATA to build LR and Jaguar in China?????

Originally Posted by wardy1

Now this is a prime example of a hijacked thread LOL

Yes stop distracting the thread with comments about hijacking and terrorism!

Umm, what were we talking about?

I think it only fair that LR are now going to be made in china......after all royal dolton have been made in the Uk for years

Tata Motors has multiple contracts with Ford for the engine supply and they have different time lines, which extends beyond 2013. The company is in the process of giving Ford the engine volume (estimate) for 2013.

Ramakrishnan said they could look at alternate sources for getting engines. "Our agreement with Ford doesn’t prevent us from doing that. We can look at the Tata Motors range (of engines) too," he said.

The new assembly plants in Asia will make JLR models, starting with the premium sports utility vehicles of Land Rover. The plants will assemble parts shipped from the United Kingdom.

Back on topic - it gets better! Maybe Tata will fit a truck engine to the Defender? Do Tata even make Euro V spec diesels???

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Do Tata even make Euro V spec diesels???

Not when we were buying them to stick into cheap gensets... The engines we were getting were based on 1960's engine designs - and I'm only talking 2 years ago, granted that they only had to meet stationary engine emissions requirements.

That is the only impression I ever got about TATA, and it wasn't a good one - uneconomical, noisy and unreliable. Fixed plenty of things on them under warranty while I was still at that company - a much higher percentage than any other engine we used.

Cheers - Gav.

Originally Posted by bacicat2000

Not when we were buying them to stick into cheap gensets... The engines we were getting were based on 1960's engine designs - and I'm only talking 2 years ago, granted that they only had to meet stationary engine emissions requirements.

That is the only impression I ever got about TATA, and it wasn't a good one - uneconomical, noisy and unreliable. Fixed plenty of things on them under warranty while I was still at that company - a much higher percentage than any other engine we used.

Cheers - Gav.

It seems Tata acquired Daewoo trucks recently as well - which are fitted with Cummins engines.

Hmm - 8.3L Cummins straight 6 in a 110

TATA trucks have a very good reputation in the exploritory(spelling?) field and cummins has been making Euro V spec engines for a couple of years. Pat

Just to complicate things Cummins is owned by Komatsu. Pat