Sunday, 18 December 2011














Porsche is a German manufacturer of automobiles founded in 1931 by Mr. Ferdinand Porsche who also designed the first Volkswagen.

The company has always had a close relationship with Volkswagen Group because of this reason. Mr. Ferdinand Porsche founded the Porsche Engineering Office in Stuttgart. The first sports car with the name “PORSCHE” was produced.

The company currently produce many other variants like Boxster, Cayman sports cars and Cayenne sport utility vehicles. Porsche also manufacture a brand of mountain and hybrid bikes called Carrera. Porsche was awarded as the title of the most prestigious automobile brand by Luxury Institute, New York in May 2006.

From 2003, Porsche has started leaving its footprint in the market of luxury and utility vehicle in India. Shreyans Motors Private Limited was the official agent of Porsche.

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Jaguar is famous for its high line luxury cars. It is a British luxury car brand which is centered in Whitley, Coventry, England. It is a subsidiary brand of Tata Motors Ltd, the Indian company. The Jaguar cars ltd was founded by Sir William Lyons in 1922. Earlier the company use to manufacture only the sidecars to be attached with motorcycles with the brand name of Swallow Sidecar Company. However with time, the company evolved and the actual name Jaguar came into existence after the world war II. With constant effort, the company got listed on London Stock Exchange in 1984. After few year, the company was again acquired by Ford in 1989. Jaguar is the only company which holds Royal Warrants from present British royals. The highly acclaimed model XJ is a specific model from the company which has been delivered for the British Prime Minister. Now the company designs the cars in Jaguar Land Rover's designing center at Whitley plant. The manufacturing and assembling of the car is done in Birmingham and Liverpool.

Jaguar Land Rover was taken over by Tata Motors in 2008. It was a great challenge for Tata Motors to bring in this luxury car in India when there was an economic breakdown in the country. For two year, the company face hardship but did not take much time to regain its position in Indian automobile market. The Moto - 'value for money' surely helped to attract car enthusiasts in the country. Some of the popular models on road is - Jaguar XF, Jaguar XJ, Jaguar XK, Jaguar R series etc.