Jaguar is owned by Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles (India, NSE: TMPV), which acquired the brand on 2 June 2008 from Ford, as part of a $2.3 billion deal that also included Land Rover and Range Rover.[1][2]
Jaguar has been British-built since 1935 and Indian-owned since 2008, having previously belonged to British Leyland and then Ford. Its E-Type was described by Enzo Ferrari as the most beautiful car ever made, and the marque is now moving to electric only.
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles is a publicly listed company headquartered in Mumbai, India, founded in 1945. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NSE: TMPV and BSE: 500570.
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles is the Tata Group company that makes Tata cars and owns Jaguar Land Rover, which it bought from Ford in 2008. It was called Tata Motors Limited until its commercial-vehicles business was demerged into a separate listed company with effect from 1 October 2025; that trucks company now carries the Tata Motors Limited name, and this one trades as TMPV.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom.
291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Jaguar among them.
Tata Motors acquired Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford for about $2.3 billion in cash. Ford had paid roughly $2.5 billion for Jaguar in 1989 and $2.7 billion for Land Rover in 2000, so it sold both together for less than it had paid for either.
The parent company of Jaguar is Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, a publicly listed company headquartered in India.
Is Jaguar British or Indian?
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Jaguar originated in the United Kingdom in 1935, but it is owned today by Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, which is headquartered in India. So Jaguar is a British-origin brand under Indian ownership.
When did Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles buy Jaguar?
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Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles completed its acquisition of Jaguar on 2 June 2008, after announcing the deal on 26 March 2008. The deal, which also included Land Rover and Range Rover, was valued at $2.3 billion (enterprise value).
Is Jaguar still owned by Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles?
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Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Jaguar is still owned by Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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