In May, JLR and Stellantis signed a non-binding memorandum to explore collaboration in the US; specific Defender manufacturing details came later.
JLR has paid hundreds of millions of pounds in tariffs.
Stellantis already has US truck and SUV plants, offering JLR potential production capacity.
Jaguar Land Rover is finally putting real weight behind an American manufacturing push, and it is doing it with help from Stellantis. The plan is not to simply ship today’s Defender across the Atlantic, but to create new Defender-branded vehicles built in the United States for US buyers.
That idea hits several pressure points at once: tariff costs…
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