Prologis Park, Ryton – near Coventry in the UK – has been named as the address for Jaguar Land Rover's Special Vehicle Operations Technical Centre.
The site chosen for the technical centre is just down the road from JLR's head office in Whitley; both sites are close to Coventry, long a centre of automotive expertise in the UK.
Boasting specialist equipment and a customer commissioning suite that has cost JLR £20 million the technical centre will house up to 150 skilled staff, of whom 100 are yet to be recruited. As motoring.com.au has reported previously, the technical centre will be part showcase, part operational lynchpin for JLR's Special Vehicle Operations.
The technical centre will commence operations before the end of the year, JLR advises, and will be home to the SVO workshop, where the Jaguar F-TYPE Project 7 (pictured) will be completed in a batch of 250 units. Initially the cars will roll down the line at JLR's Castle Bromwich plant, but the finishing touches will be the responsibility of the SVO workshop.
"We are excited by the capability and potential that this new facility will give us," said John Edwards, MD of JLR Special Operations. "We will be creating truly iconic vehicles that reinforce the global reputation of both Jaguar and Land Rover brands as we expand our product portfolio and fulfil our ambitious plans."
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