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Jaguar car - p�hoto wallpapers; Megawallpapers.org: Jaguar Cars Limited is a British car manufacturer, with headquarters in Browns Lane, Coventry, England. It was founded as SS Cars Lts in 1922 and changed its name to Jaguar in 1945. The company has been owned by Ford since 1990. Jaguar also has an engineering division in Whitley, Coventry. Jaguar's main competitors include BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Cadillac, Infiniti and in the past Rover. The name is pronoucend /ˈdʒ�gjuːə/ "jag ewer" in the UK, //ˈdʒ�gˌwɑɹ// (BLMC) in 1968. Financial difficulties and the publication of the Rydler Report "jag wahr" in the USA. The colloquial "Jag" is acceptable in both countries. Founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922, by two motorcycle enthusiasts, William Lyons and William Walmsley, the Jaguar name first appeared on a 2.5 litre saloon in 1935. This name was given to the entire company when SS Cars Ltd was renamed Jaguar Cars Ltd after World War II because of the unfavourable connotations of the initials "SS" (from their use by the Shutzstaffel in Nazi Germany). Jaguar made its name in the 1950s with a series of elegantly-styled sports cars and luxury saloons. The company bought the Daimler car company (not to be confused with Daimler-Benz), in 1960 from Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA). From the late 1960s, Daimler was used as a brand name for Jaguar's most luxurious saloons. Jaguar merged with the British Motor Company (BMC), the Austin-Morris combine, to form British Motor Holdings (BMH) in 1966. After merging with Leyland and Rover, the resultant company then became British Leyland Motor Corporationled to effective nationalisation in 1975 and the company became British Leyland Ltd (BL). In 1984, Jaguar was floated off as a separate company on the stock market - one of the Tatcher government's many privatisations. It took the Vanden Plas name with it. It was then taken over by Ford in 1989-1990. In 1999 it became part of Ford's new Premier Automative Group along with Aston Martin, Volvo Cars and, from 2001, Land Rover. Recent reports speculate Ford might sell Jaguar in order to infuse much needed capital into its own operations. Since Ford purchased Jaguar in 1989 it has yet to earn a profit for the Dearborn-based automaker. Jaguar cars gained something of a reputation for unreliability [br]during the 1970s and 1980s, however this has improved considerably in [br]the last 20 years. Since the company has been under the Ford Motor [br]Company umbrella, reliability and build has improved dramatically, even [br]surpassing that of Audi and Mercedes-Benz, with the company coming 7th [br](out of 30) in the J. D. Power Customer Satisfaction Survey (the [br]'242-million mile road test'), and the S-TYPE model coming 9th out of [br]105 cars in the same survey. However, nowhere has the turnaround in the [br]quality of the cars been more obvious than in the 2003 Top Gear Survey, where the XJ8 (X308) model came first. The company was originally located in Blackpool but moved to Coventry in 1928 to be at the heart of the British Motor industry. Today, Jaguars are assembled at Castle Bronwich in Birmingham and Halewood in Liverpool. The historic Browns Lane plant closed as a vehicle assembly plant in 2005 leaving the XJ, XK and S-Type production at Castle Bromwich and the X-Type at Halewood. Since Land Rover's [br]2002 purchase by Ford, it has been closely associated with Jaguar. In [br]many countries they share a common sales and distribution network [br](including shared dealerships), and some models now share components [br]and production facilities. Jaguar Cars are 'by appointment' to HM The Queen and Prince Charles.

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