In a first move to strengthen the arms of JLR in India, Tata plans to locally assemble the freelander SUV in India. Jaguar and Landrover vehicles are imported as CBU in India. CBU units of jaguar and land rover makes them costlier over their german counterparts. However this is set to change.Tata plans to locally assemble the freelander suv in its pune plant.
Mercedes facility at Tata motors was recently vacated by the former in lieu of its new plant, Tata will use that facility to assemble freelander. Tata plans to locally assemble 2000 units of freelander in India. The local assembly will start later this year, where we will produce all available variant of the Freelander,” said Tata Motors MD and CEO Carl Peter Foster.