Tata Motors to develop new JLR engine

Indian engineering will play a role in the design of new Jaguar Land Rover engines, said Tata Motors Chief Executive Carl-Peter Forster, a long-term threat to Ford Motor Co., which is now under contract to supply JLR engines. Tata Motors bought Jaguar Land Rover from Ford in 2008. As part of that deal, Tata Motors entered into a series of contracts to buy vehicle components and technology from Ford. Forster said those contracts begin to expire around 2015. He said he intends to renew them, but would like to engineer new Jaguar Land Rover engines in-house, combining the expertise of the group’s engineers in India and the United Kingdom. (August 13, 2010)