Buoyant after announcing the biggest profits ever recorded by a British vehicle manufacturer (that's a post-tax profit of £1.043bn), Jaguar Land Rover has officially opened its first assembly plant in India - and it's rumoured that an Indian engine manufacturing facility is next on the list.
The new facility in Pune, in the Maharashtra region, will put together Indian-market Freelander 2s from parts shipped over from JLR's Halewood plant in Liverpool.
But according to our super-sleuth friends on sister publications Autocar and Autocar India, JLR is planning to plough £400m into a new facility for - so say the Autocars - building an all-new modular range of four-cylinder engines of up to 2.0 litres.
The new plant will apparently be the twin of a new engine plant to be built in Wolverhampton and which has already been announced.
Meanwhile, Jaguar Land Rover's diesel and petrol V6s and V8s will continue to be built by Ford in Dagenham and Bridgend.
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