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updated
04/02/10
BP
will be CLOSED the afternoon of 4/2/10
for Good Friday
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Is Tata Restructuring
Land Rover?
Mar 29 2010 by Alun Thorne, Birmingham Post
Plans to close a Jaguar Land Rover factory in the West Midlands
could be reversed according to industry sources. Both the
Land Rover factory at Solihull and the Jaguar plant at Castle
Bromwich could yet survive the axe by owners Tata following
another rethink by bosses, it has been revealed.
Thousands of workers were stunned last September
when Tata announced that either Lode Lane or Castle Bromwich
was to close, with an announcement due by midsummer. But the
new regime at JLR, led by Tata Motors supremo Carl-Peter Forster
and new Jaguar Land Rover boss Ralf Speth, are understood
to have ordered another strategy review which now includes
the option of keeping both sites open. Unions fiercely opposed
any moves to close Solihull or Castle Bromwich, claiming compulsory
job losses were inevitable and shunning internal discussions
on the closure plan.
But a source close to senior management at
JLR said: “One of the options now is not to close either of
them. “There is a new strategy now being developed – it is
a completely new ball game. It has now gone back from ‘there
will be a plant closure.’ They are looking at it again.” The
source said new model ranges for Land Rover and Jaguar could
safeguard the futures of both Lode Lane and Castle Bromwich.
“That is now a very real possibility.”
It is understood that a new review of JLR
is currently under way following the appointments of Mumbai-based
Carl-Peter Forster as Group Chief Executive Officer of Tata
Motors and Ralf Speth as new JLR Chief Executive, based at
Gaydon. The closure plan was announced under the previous
regime with David Smith at the helm of JLR, but Mr Smith was
replaced at the top in a boardroom switch in January.
JLR has enjoyed a big sales recovery in recent
months, clocking up a 60 per cent sales increase in February
alone. The group also announced a £38.7 million profit for
the final quarter of 2009 after years of struggling in the
red. A JLR spokesman said: “We said back in September we would
go through a process and make a decision in the middle of
the year. “As you would expect our new CEOs are studying our
business and looking at our plans closely.” He added nothing
had been changed from the Business Plan announced in September.
No New
Defenders
No need to
speculate about an LR4 based Defender. Tata has decided not
to update the venerable British classic after all. Tata has
recently decided to pursue the luxury brand aspect of the
company, and not spend the development money needed to make
a 21st century Defender.
It's probaly just as well. Defender may remain in productin
in its current form in India, where Tata has a good grasp
on the truck business. Defender can fit in Tata's truck business
worldwide. If it survives in its original form that's a good
thing in our book, even if we never get any more here.
A simplified
Defender, without computer controls or luxury features, is
said to be in development for Africa and other remote regions.
In the US, sales strategies may create Range Rover specific
stores, or separate sections in showrooms, and break out LR2,
LRX, and LR4. Range Rovers, especially full size, are actually
in short supply in the US right now. LRX (not the final name)
is definitely heading to the US.
Don't expect
any serious off road vehicles for the US market.
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British
Pacific Now Stocking Terrafirma Off Road Products
BP has been
building its inventory of the Terrafirma range of off road
suspension products, and we now have a good selection in stock.
Terrafirma provides good quality gear at an affordable price,
and has a wide range for Defender, Discovery, and Range Rover
Classic. We are also using TF springs and shocks in our air
suspension conversion kits.
Click here
for the full catalog: see something that you like?
If we're not stocking it we can order it for you.
Contact us for a prompt price quote and availability here:
Here's a selection of what we're stocking
right now:

TF202 Medium spring/shock combo
$463.00
TF509 cranked radius arms $215.00
TF516 & TF517 spring spacers $65.00/set

TF513 rear dual shock
mounts $130.00

TF508 caster corrected
front radius arms $399.00/pair
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