Jaguar Cars Ltd. is an Indian-owned automaker from England, United Kingdom that manufactures luxury and executive motor cars. It has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Indian company Tata Motors Ltd. since March 2008, in which it comprises one half of the Jaguar Land Rover group along with its corporate sibling, Land Rover.
Jaguar was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company by Sir William Lyons in 1922, originally making motorcycle sidecars before switching to passenger cars. The name was changed to Jaguar after the second world war due to the unfavourable connotations of the SS initials.Jaguar cars are designed in an engineering centre at their headquarters in Coventry, England and are manufactured in one of three English Jaguar plants; Castle Bromwich in Birmingham, Halewood near Liverpool and Gaydon in Oxfordshire.
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.Jaguar also holds Royal Warrants from HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Charles.
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