Jaguar, Land Rover run on Tata components

A KNOWN 'EVIL'? Many Tata companies have been providing automotive components to Jaguar and Land Rover.

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Mumbai: Ford's naming of Tata Motors as the preferred bidder for Jaguar Land Rover doesn't come as a surprise for industry watchers familiar with the Tata group.

But what most are not aware is that there's already a little bit of Tata in both of them.

For one - Tata-owned steel company Corus is a major supplier of automotive steel to Ford - the owner of the two marquee brands. Both Land Rover and Jaguar use Corus' products like rear door panels, body side panels, drive shafts and radiators, besides others.

Land Rover's legendary rugged capabilities couldn't have been possible without a strong chassis - built with Corus' tubular steel frames. And as it faces new challenges of meeting strict emission norms and be more fuel efficient, Corus is helping it do so by supplying lighter steel.

Declining to comment on JLR, Tata Steel MD, B Muthuraman said, “Corus is a major supplier of steel to Ford in europe. It's one of the top automotive steel suppliers.”

But Tata’s influence does not end there.

Tata's automotive components company Tata Autocomp Systems or TACo supplies auto components to Land Rover and Jaguar out of Pune, through its joint venture with Spanish auto component major Ficosa.

Tata has pervaded JLR further for Tata Technologies, Tata’s automotive and aerospace engineering and design services arm, has been providing services to Jaguar and Land Rover through its UK-based arm Incat since four years. In fact, 60 of Incat's engineers have been helping Jaguar and Land Rover design software for their portfolio.

It doesn't come as a surprise, then, that Ford is in detailed negotiations with Tata Motors.