Land Rover is a car brand that specialises in four-wheeldrive vehicles, owned by Britishmultinational car

manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, which is in turn owned

by India's Tata Motors since 2008.[4]
The Land Rover name was originally used by the Rover
Company for the Land Rover Series, launched in 1948. It
developed into a brand encompassing a range of fourwheel-drive models, including
the Defender, Discovery, Freelander, Range
Rover, Range Rover Sport and Range Rover Evoque.
Land Rovers are currently assembled in the
company'sHalewood and Solihull plants, with research
and development taking place at
the Gaydonand Whitley engineering centres. Land Rover
sold 194,000 vehicles worldwide in 2009.[5]
In September 2013 Jaguar Land Rover announced plans
to open a 100 million GBP (160 million USD) research
and development centre in the University of Warwick,
Coventry to create a next generation of vehicle
technologies. The carmaker said around 1,000 academics
and engineers would work there and that construction
would start in 2014.[6]