is the luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover,[6] a British multinational car

manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England, owned by the

Indian company Tata Motors since 2008.[7]
Jaguar's business was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922, originally
making motorcycle sidecars before developing bodies for passenger cars. Under t
he ownership of S. S. Cars Limited the business extended to complete cars made i
n association with Standard Motor Co many bearing Jaguar as a model name. The co
mpany's name was changed from S. S. Cars to Jaguar Cars in 1945. A merger with t
he British Motor Corporation followed in 1966,[8] the resulting enlarged company
now being renamed as British Motor Holdings (BMH), which in 1968 merged with Le
yland Motor Corporation and became British Leyland, itself to be nationalised in
1975.
Jaguar was de-merged from British Leyland and was listed on the London Stock Exc
hange in 1984, becoming a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquire
d by Ford in 1990.[9] Jaguar has, in recent years, manufactured cars for the Bri
tish Prime Minister, the most recent delivery being an XJ in May 2010.[10] The c
ompany also holds royal warrants from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles.[11]
Jaguar cars today are designed in Jaguar Land Rover's engineering centres at the
Whitley plant in Coventry and at their Gaydon site in Warwickshire, and are ass
embled in their plants at Castle Bromwich and Solihull.
In September 2013 Jaguar Land Rover announced plans to open a 100 million GBP (1
60 million USD) research and development centre in the University of Warwick, Co
ventry to create a new generation of vehicle technologies. The carmaker said aro
und 1,000 academics and engineers would work there and that construction would s
tart in 2014.[12][13]