Land Rovers To Be Produced in China

[Dendy Jarrett]

http://www.birminghampost.net/birmi...ver-china-plant-65233-29587786/#ixzz1ahONgzYK

This has further cemented my reason for just purchasing two jeeps!
Perhaps the entire World will eventually be made in China- but - who knows.

Geesh!

D

 

[Corey]

Hopefully I will be retired from Boeing before China starts assembling the whole thing.
So much has been outsourced already.

 

[haven]

Better buy those Jeeps soon if you want a "made in USA" model. Jeep already exports Jeeps to China, and plans are underway to build Jeeps there. It seems inevitable that Jeeps or major parts of Jeeps will be shipped back to USA.

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2011/09/manchurian-candidate-jeep-capitalizes.html

 

[LtFuzz]

That article doesn't mention if they'll be made for domestic consumption or for export.

China will soon have more car drivers than the entire western hemisphere combined. I don't think it's unreasonable for manufacturers to start setting up shop there. Much smarter than paying shipping/tariffs to get them onto Chinese roads.

GM and Volkswagen have been making good money selling to Chinese drivers for years. Jeep and Land Rover would be wise to follow. At this point the For Us, By Us American auto dream is long gone. We'll never catch Germany in terms of export volume but the least we can do is start getting the cash back on our side of the fence. If they want Jeeps and Rovers, and they'll build them for us and then turn around and buy 'em up, I say by all means...

 

[d110pickup]

Read the second paragraph. I doubt they would build anything we would buy here. And I doubt us or the Brits could build anything inexpensively enough to sell in "an emerging market".

Reports in the Far East claimed JLR was seeking regulatory approval as part of plans to manufacture cars for the emerging market.

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[Dendy Jarrett]

Something Haven says is a scary proposition- imagine all those bicycles replaced with pollution spewing cars- if we think we contribute to carbon footprint! Yikes!

 

[bobDog]

http://www.birminghampost.net/birmi...ver-china-plant-65233-29587786/#ixzz1ahONgzYK

This has further cemented my reason for just purchasing two jeeps!
Perhaps the entire World will eventually be made in China- but - who knows.

Geesh!

D

Nice to know that the English are as big a fools as the Americans when it comes to making more money no matter what. Even if it drives their citizens to bankruptcy.
Go China! Maybe Big Macs will be made in China soon!

 

[discotdi]

http://www.birminghampost.net/birmi...ver-china-plant-65233-29587786/#ixzz1ahONgzYK

This has further cemented my reason for just purchasing two jeeps!
Perhaps the entire World will eventually be made in China- but - who knows.

Geesh!

D

That's no excuse for buying two jeeps! Sellout, weak! Maybe one but two never.

 

[Red90]

Maybe Big Macs will be made in China soon!

What? Of course Big Macs are made in China.

As to Land Rover, it would not surprise me if more Range Rover are not sold there than most other countries. You see a lot more of them in China than in North America.

Confirmed here: http://www.expressandstar.com/busin.../sales-soar-for-jlr as-demand-in-china-rises/

as China overtook America as the second biggest market for Land Rovers after the UK in September.

 

[reece146]

Someone made a comment about Jeeps being made in China... been going on for a long time. Example: Beijing Jeep bought the tooling for the XJ from ChryCo when the XJ was discontinued RoW. They did a mild restyle and did some mix-n-match of various things among the vintages.

Some guys go to the bother of importing the BJ2500 front clip for their NA spec XJs and MJs. Whatever floats your boat I guess.

Anyway, LR being produced in China is nothing unique... actually kind of late to the party. Those images of Chinese people riding around on bicycles wearing gov't issue khakis is way outdated. You'd be hard pressed to differentiate the urban areas from any other city on the planet. Very mechanized, very "western" middle class looking.

 

[Stoneseeker]

This is the problem, the chinese are very fast
and if there nobody faster, they take every thing in their country..
The one and only solution is to be faster and DO SOMETHING.
it is sadly to write this...
but the germans sleeping also..

 

[Doctor W]

The Chinese have been building XJ's since about 2001 and WJ's since about 04.......I also read a "reliable" report in Land Rover Monthly magazine that LR are going to be building/assembling some LR models in Thailand, most likely the Defenders at first, from UK built CKD kits sent down .........and remember LR is Indian owned -not British.

Growth in car ownership by more than 1,000,000,000 Chinese........the worry of pollution from that many more vehicles on the planet is truly frightening!

 

[atancreti]

Well guys I just bought a Je#p too... I only did it because I can't seem to find a GOOD lr2/ lr3. They all have problems of some sort and I wanted a good warranty. For 24 grand I have everything a lr2 has EXCEPT a land rover logo on it... That will change however.... I am putting my LR trailer hitch on it... Oh and it has no Je#p logos on it as well... I still wear my "ID RATHER PUSH MY ROVER THEN DRIVE A J@#P..." and damn it I mean it.

 

[Red90]

......the worry of pollution from that many more vehicles on the planet is truly frightening!

You do not need to wait. The pollution being produced currently in China is destroying the planet.

They can't actual get a lot more cars. There are not enough roads, or parking locations to support much more. The Chinese system is heading for collapse. The question is whether or not the western countries collapse first.