Land Rover 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 Jaguar and Range Rover.[1][2]
Evidence: Tata Motors 80th Integrated Annual Report 2024-25, Tata Motors Limited. Last checked .
Land Rover was designed in 1947 as a farm vehicle using surplus aircraft aluminium because steel was rationed. The Defender descended from it stayed in production for sixty-seven years, and Tata has owned the brand since 2008.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in automotive.
The 53 brands in mass-market cars on Brandtree belong to 24 owners. The largest is Stellantis, with 9; Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Chrysler | Stellantis | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| GWM Pickup | Great Wall Motor | 🇨🇳 China |
| CHERY | Chery | 🇨🇳 China |
| BDS Suspension | Fox Factory | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Buick | General Motors | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Roewe | SAIC Motor | 🇨🇳 China |
| Daihatsu | Toyota | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| SEAT | Volkswagen Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
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.
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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, Land Rover 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 Land Rover is Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, a publicly listed company headquartered in India.
Land Rover originated in the United Kingdom in 1948, but it is owned today by Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, which is headquartered in India. So Land Rover is a British-origin brand under Indian ownership.
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles completed its acquisition of Land Rover on 2 June 2008, after announcing the deal on 26 March 2008. The deal, which also included Jaguar and Range Rover, was valued at $2.3 billion (enterprise value).
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Land Rover is still owned by Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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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