Who Owns Land Rover?

Land Rover is owned by Tata Motors of India, which bought it from Ford in 2008. It is part of Jaguar Land Rover, a British-registered company headquartered in Coventry. The register preserves the merger neatly: the company now called Jaguar Land Rover Holdings Limited was previously named simply LAND ROVER, while the operating company beneath it used to be Jaguar Cars Limited. Ownership verified 6 September 2026.

Who owns the Land Rover brand?

There is no company called Land Rover today. The vehicles are made by JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED (01672070), incorporated 15 October 1982 and registered at Abbey Road, Whitley, Coventry — a company that was called Jaguar Cars Limited until the two marques were brought together.

Above it sits JAGUAR LAND ROVER HOLDINGS LIMITED (04019301), incorporated 16 June 2000, whose own previous name on the register is LAND ROVER. Its person with significant control is Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Plc (06477691), recorded as having significant influence or control.

So the two halves of the business are both still on the register, under each other’s names.

Parent company and ultimate owner

Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc sits beneath Tata Motors Limited, the Indian carmaker, which is itself part of the Tata Group — one of India’s largest conglomerates, ultimately controlled by Tata Sons, whose largest shareholders are the Tata charitable trusts.

That last step is unusual and worth stating: a substantial majority of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts, so the profits of Land Rover flow, at the top of the chain, largely towards charitable endowments rather than to individuals or to a listed float.

Tata Motors is listed in India, so its own shareholders are disclosed to Indian regulators rather than at Companies House.

Brand owner vs operating company

Jaguar Land Rover owns the Land Rover, Range Rover, Discovery and Defender names and builds the vehicles at Solihull, Halewood and Wolverhampton, with plants in Slovakia, China, India and Brazil.

Since a 2023 rebrand the group has presented Range Rover, Defender, Discovery and Jaguar as separate marques under a single house, which changes the marketing rather than the ownership. The dealerships are separately owned motor retail groups operating under franchise, not part of the company.

When the ownership changed

Land Rover has changed hands more often than almost any British brand:

• 1948 — launched by the Rover Company.
• 1967 onwards — absorbed into Leyland and then British Leyland, nationalised in 1975.
• 1988 — privatised as part of the Rover Group, sold to British Aerospace.
• 1994 — BMW bought Rover Group, taking Land Rover with it.
• 2000 — BMW broke the group up and sold Land Rover to Ford, keeping Mini. Jaguar Land Rover Holdings Limited, then named Land Rover, was incorporated that June for the purpose.
• 2008 — Ford sold Jaguar and Land Rover together to Tata Motors for a reported $2.3bn, during the financial crisis.

The BMW connection leaves a trace elsewhere on this site: BMW’s UK holding company, company 01213133, is the former British Leyland, and so was once the parent of the business Land Rover came from.

Tata’s ownership has lasted longer than Ford’s and BMW’s put together, and turned a business both of them sold at a loss into a profitable one — though 2025 brought a serious setback in a cyber attack that halted production for weeks.

Related brands in the same group

Jaguar Land Rover owns Jaguar, Land Rover, Range Rover, Defender and Discovery. Tata Motors separately owns the Tata car and commercial vehicle businesses in India.

Land Rover has no connection to BMW or Ford today, and none to Rover or MG — the MG name is owned by SAIC of China, and the Rover marque passed to BMW and then out of use. Ineos Automotive’s Grenadier is a rival built by a separate company, not a Land Rover product, despite the resemblance and the litigation over the Defender shape.

Sources and verification

The company numbers, incorporation dates, the previous names on both companies and the PSC entry are from the Companies House register.

Tata Motors’ and Tata Sons’ ownership is filed in India, not here, so the structure above Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc and the role of the Tata trusts come from Indian disclosures and company statements. The reported $2.3bn Ford sale price is a press figure. Companies House does not verify most filed information.