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US-Built Land Rover Defender Pickup To Be the First Fruit of Jaguar Land Rover's Stellantis Deal

The project could give JLR a U.S.-built Defender pickup as the companies seek growth in North America and avoid truck import tariffs.

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Jaguar Land Rover's first vehicle developed under its North American tie-up with Stellantis could be a Defender-branded Land Rover pickup truck. According to The Times of London, which cites people familiar with the project, JLR and the multinational group intend to assemble this model stateside. Jaguar Land Rover and Netherlands-based Stellantis both declined to comment. What is on the record is the framework on which the Land Rover... (continu…

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British car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) says it is in talks with NATO countries about purchasing a military version of the existing Defender model. This is reported by the Financial Times, among others. The struggling company, owned by the Indian Tata, wants to benefit from rising defense budgets. "It is a growth market that we are actively looking at," according to JLR. The British Army has been using Land Rovers since the 1940s, and t…

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The British auto manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover plans to deliver an updated version of the Army SUV Defender Wolf Series II to the North Atlantic Alliance States. The British car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover is actively negotiating the supply of military equipment to a number of North Atlantic Alliance countries, transmitting TASS. The company intends to obtain an updated version of the Army vehicle Defender Wolf Series II. The company intends…

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JLR is strengthening its stake in the US market, its largest market today. To this end, it announced a strategic partnership with Stellantis aimed at developing new products and technologies for the Defender, designed specifically for the USA. According to a report to which The Times had access, the first fruit of this [...] Post Stellantis will produce Defender in the USA and not only appeared first in Automobile Reason.

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vz.ru broke the news on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
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