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2025-01-27 02:51:00
The UK’s largest luxurious automobile maker, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), says it’s going to make investments £65m ($81m) in a plan to broaden its bespoke paint providers in response to rising demand from rich clients.
The plan contains opening new paint amenities in Fort Bromwich, UK and Nitra, Slovakia.
The agency, which is owned by India’s Tata Group, says it expects to greater than double its bespoke paint operation, together with serving to purchasers match the color of their unique Vary Rover SV fashions to their personal jets or yachts.
It follows an identical transfer by Rolls-Royce, which introduced earlier this month that it was investing £300m to construct extra highly-customised variations of its automobiles for super-rich clients.
“Vary Rover purchasers are more and more selecting to tailor their autos with extra unique bespoke and elevated palette paints,” mentioned Jamal Hameedi, director of particular car operations at JLR.
“By rising our capability we are able to fulfill the demand progress from our Vary Rover purchasers and… purchasers of our different manufacturers.”
The corporate says the plan may even assist it lower power and water use in addition to scale back paint waste.
Earlier this month, Rolls-Royce mentioned it was increasing its Goodwood manufacturing facility and world headquarters to satisfy rising demand for bespoke fashions.
Rolls-Royce mentioned the plan would “additionally prepared the manufacturing facility for the marque’s transition to an all-battery electrical car future”.
Final month, Jaguar unveiled a controversial new electrical idea automobile.
Some on social media mentioned the brand new Sort 00 automobile was “thrilling” and “completely beautiful”, whereas others referred to as it “garbage” and instructed Jaguar’s designers to “return to the drafting board”.
Nonetheless, the carmaker instructed the response was precisely what it needed because it was making an attempt to reset the model and revive sluggish gross sales.
