No more China production for Jaguar Land Rover models soon – switch to Chery-based Freelander

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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will cease production of Jaguar and Land Rover models in China within 18 months. The struggling Chery Jaguar Land Rover joint venture will switch to producing Freelander-branded vehicles based on Chery's T1X platform. The first Freelander will be a plug-in hybrid, leveraging the platform used by several Chery models, potentially with JLR design input. While China-made JLR models are discontinued, larger models like Range Rover and Defender will likely continue as imports.