Jaguar began in 1922 as the Swallow Sidecar Company in Blackpool, founded by William Lyons and William Walmsley, and first used the Jaguar name on a car in 1935. It changed its company name to Jaguar Cars in 1945, built the XK120 and E-Type, won Le Mans seven times, and passed through British Leyland, a stock market flotation and Ford before Tata Motors bought it, with Land Rover, in 2008. Since then Jaguar has been
Rear-wheel steering turns the back wheels by a few degrees, usually under 10, so a long luxury car behaves like a shorter one at parking speeds and a longer, steadier one on the highway. At low speed the rear wheels turn the opposite way to the fronts, which shrinks the turning circle; above a set speed they turn the same way, which calms lane changes. In India it is a Rs 1 crore-plus feature: it
Of the luxury cars we compared, the Range Rover and the Land Rover Defender 110 have the biggest boots behind the rear seats, at 818 litres and 786 litres, by Land Rover’s block-measured figures. The BMW X5 is next at 650 litres, by BMW India’s figure. If you need seven seats and luggage space at the same time, the Defender 130 leaves the most room behind its third row, at 290 litres. At the other
The Maserati Grecale is the most India-friendly Maserati you can buy: a five-seat SUV that drives with real sparkle, has a 535-litre boot and handles speed breakers without drama. It is also expensive for its size, tight on rear headroom and backed by a small service network. If you are shopping right now, our advice is simple. Don’t sign before 30 October 2026, when Maserati India launches the facelifted Grecale. The update moves the mid-range