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Jaguar considers assembling cars in India.

Jaguar cars are designed in the JLR engineering centres in the UK at Coventry and Warwickshire.

Jaguar global brand director Adrian Hallmark told Indian media that the Tata-owned brand would look at assembling cars there in the next three to five years. 

"We are looking at it … as we go forward, we will surely consider this," Hallmark told Indian journalists. "We have not planned anything right now, but in the next 3-5 years, we can imagine this happening in India."

Jaguar Land Rover already assembles Freelander 2 at Tata’s Pune plant in India, but only for the local market. And Jaguar Australia general manager Kevin Goult says any Jaguars built in India will not come to our showrooms.

“We would still have our vehicles coming from the UK,” Goult says. “Our plan is to have nothing but British-built vehicles in this market at this time.”

Goult says that bringing vehicles from India rather than Britain would not offer any benefit to Australian buyers.  “It really makes no difference in pricing, as our costs are heavily dictated by the government,” he says.

“From the minute we land a vehicle, they’re there with their hand out, and unless there was any way around that it wouldn’t impact on prices.”

Combined Jaguar-Land Rover sales in India during the 2010-11 financial year totalled 891, an increase of 649 sales - or 269 per cent - over the previous period.

“India is obviously a growth market - they do very well with Jaguar over there, and they are on the rise,” Goult says. “That market does like the Britishness - They love British products of any kind.”

Jaguar cars are designed in the JLR engineering centres in the UK at Coventry and Warwickshire, and are manufactured in the Castle Bromwich assembly plant near Birmingham. 

Goult says a Jaguar assembled in India would be just the same as one assembled in Birmingham. “Whether you build it in Castle Bromwich or in India, it will go together the wame way