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Jaguar Cars ( ) is a brand of Jaguar Land Rover,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jaguarlandrover.com/pdf/Investor_Presentation_FY2012_Overview.pdf )〕 a British multinational car manufacturer headquartered in Whitley, Coventry, England, owned by the Indian company Tata Motors〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tata Buys Jaguar Land Rover for $2.3 Billion )〕 since 2008. Jaguar's business was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922, originally making motorcycle sidecars before developing bodies for passenger cars. Under the ownership of S. S. Cars Limited the business extended to complete cars. The name S. S. Cars was changed to "Jaguar" in 1945. A merger with the British Motor Corporation followed in 1966,〔"Jaguar Group of companies is to merge with The British Motor Corporation Ltd., as the first step towards the stting up of a joint holding company to be called British Motor (Holdings) Limited." Official statement released at press conference at the Great Eastern Hotel, London, 1966〕 the resulting enlarged company now being renamed as British Motor Holdings (BMH), which in 1968 merged with Leyland 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 Exchange in 1984, becoming a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Ford in 1990.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Years 1989 to 1986 )〕 Jaguar has, in recent years, manufactured cars for the British Prime Minister, the most recent delivery being an XJ in May 2010. The company also holds royal warrants from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles. 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 manufactured in Jaguar's Castle Bromwich assembly plant in Birmingham with some manufacturing expected to take place in the Solihull plant. In September 2013 Jaguar Land Rover announced plans to open a 100 million GBP (160 million USD) research and development centre in the University of Warwick, Coventry to create a new generation of vehicle technologies. The carmaker said around 1,000 academics and engineers would work there and that construction would start in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=AM )〕 ==History== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jaguar Cars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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