The former Director of Audi UK, Jeremy Hicks, has been named Jaguar Land Rover’s new Managing Director of Operations in the UK, effective immediately.

Jaguar Land Rover will be expanding facilities at their largest plant in Solihull. The 88,000 square-meter site is projected to take two years to complete, and will be the factory’s largest redevelopment in years.

Add another piece of hardware to the trophy case. The Range Rover Evoque has just been named the 2012 Motor Trend SUV of the Year.

Autocar has reported that the current Land Rover Defender models are expected to continue production until 2017, and possibly until 2020.

Praise for the Range Rover Evoque continues as the “Baby Range” was recently honored as the 2011 Scottish Car of the Year in Glasgow, Scotland.

Seems only fitting that Land Rover would sponsor a mixed-terrain human obstacle course designed to push its challengers to the limits; enter the 2011 Men’s Health Survival of the Fittest obstacle course taking place this fall in the UK.

Jaguar Land Rover is considering the production of a 300 horsepower performance-minded Evoque, reports Autocar.

A new Guinness World Record has been confirmed for the longest Land Rover convoy, hosted by the Convoy for Heroes initiative. The record-breaking Rover line spanned 348 vehicles.

The notion of “Going Green” is rarely associated with the Land Rover brand of vehicles, despite the iconic, shining-green emblem which adorns their exteriors. This may all change.

Land Rover has just made vehicle ownership a little easier for its consumer by offering a new Land Rover Select Certified Pre-Owned program that significantly increases its warranty coverage.

Amid overwhelming fiscal uncertainty in both the EU and the United States, Jaguar Land Rover has set its sights on selling 1,800 vehicles in India over the next financial year, a figure that aspires to double the previous year's sales numbers in the country.

Those dismissing the Range Rover Evoque as a posh, pavement-minded SUV take notice! The Evoque will be competing in the 2013 Dakar Rally, a punishing off-road endurance race which spans three countries and over 5,000 miles of rough, South American terrain.

I know. With all of the possible things that can (and do) go wrong with your Landy, windshield wiper blades can easily fall to the bottom of your priority list. Thing is, they shouldn’t. Anyone who has driven through torrential downpours with old wipers and struggled to see the road in front of them understands the importance of fresh blades. Unfortunately, most people don’t realize they need new blades until it’s too late.

Land Rover hasn’t done much to appeal to its enthusiast market lately. The company’s branding overhaul has been met with skepticism which became most evident last week following the debut of the DC100 at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Jaguar Land Rover has been dominating headlines lately, for reasons both good and bad.