Who Owns Range Rover?

Range Rover is owned by Tata Motors of India, through Jaguar Land Rover. Since JLR’s 2023 rebrand, Range Rover is presented as a marque in its own right rather than a Land Rover model — but that is a marketing structure, not a corporate one: there is no Range Rover company. The register shows something better, with the two halves of the merger still holding each other’s old names. Ownership verified 6 September 2026.

Who owns Range Rover today?

Range Rover is a marque of Jaguar Land Rover, which is owned by Tata Motors. No company on the register is called Range Rover, and none ever has been.

The vehicles are built 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), whose own previous name on the register is simply LAND ROVER. So the two halves of the business each carry the other’s former identity — the merger written into the filings.

Ultimate parent and corporate structure

The chain runs from Coventry to Mumbai and ends, unusually, in charity:

1. Jaguar Land Rover Limited (01672070)
2. Jaguar Land Rover Holdings Limited (04019301)
3. Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc (06477691)
4. Tata Motors Limited — listed in India
5. Tata Sons — majority held by the Tata charitable trusts

A substantial majority of Tata Sons belongs to philanthropic trusts, so the profits of Range Rover flow at the top of the chain largely towards charitable endowments rather than to individuals or a public float. It is one of the more surprising destinations for the proceeds of a luxury car.

Major shareholders or controlling persons

No individual controls Range Rover. Tata Motors is listed in India with a dispersed shareholder base, and Tata Sons is held by the trusts alongside the Tata family and other holders.

Those holdings are disclosed to Indian regulators rather than at Companies House, so the precise composition is not establishable from any UK filing.

Official records and evidence

Companies House establishes the UK chain, the company numbers and the previous names, and that is where the register’s usefulness ends — Tata Motors and Tata Sons file in India.

A practical note for anyone searching. Because Range Rover is a marque and not a company, looking it up on Companies House returns dealerships, hire firms and unrelated businesses. The entity that actually builds the vehicles is 01672070, and the name on it is Jaguar Land Rover.

Ownership history and changes

The Range Rover launched in 1970 as a Land Rover model, and its ownership history is Land Rover’s — one of the most-transferred brands in the industry:

• 1970 — launched under the Rover Company, within British Leyland from 1968.
• 1975 — British Leyland nationalised.
• 1988 — privatised as part of Rover Group, sold to British Aerospace.
• 1994 — BMW buys Rover Group.
• 2000 — BMW breaks the group up; Land Rover goes to Ford.
• 2008 — Ford sells Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors for a reported $2.3bn.

The 2023 rebrand elevated Range Rover, Defender and Discovery to marques alongside Jaguar under a house-of-brands structure. Nothing was bought, sold or incorporated: the corporate ownership is exactly as it was in 2022.

In 2025 the group suffered a cyber attack that halted production for weeks — an operational event, not an ownership one, though it prompted considerable speculation about the company’s future.

Related companies and brands

Jaguar Land Rover owns Range Rover, Defender, Discovery and Jaguar. Tata Motors separately owns its Indian car and commercial vehicle businesses.

Range Rover has no connection to BMW or Ford today, and none to Rover or MG — the MG name belongs to SAIC of China. And as this site’s Ford page records, a Ford company on the UK register carried the name LR Capital through exactly the period Ford owned Land Rover, reverting to a bare number weeks after the sale to Tata completed.