Land Rover to Hire 1,000 New Workers to Increase Production at its UK Factory

Good news for the local economy at Jaguar-Land Rover's (JLR) Halewood Operations manufacturing plant, which is located near Liverpool in the UK, as the Tata Motors owned automaker is creating 1,000 new jobs to support the increase of production for the Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Freelander 2 models.

With this latest move, JLR has tripled the number of employees at Halewood, from around 1,500 just three years ago to close to 4,500 workers today.

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Range Rover Evoque Falls Into the Hands of Hamann Motorsport

The fourth model that Hamann Motorsport will display on its stand at the 82nd Geneva Motor Show won’t sport the extraordinary performance figures of the Hawk, the M5 or the Guardian Evo, but it’s quite special nonetheless.

The Laupheim, Germany-based tuning firm has laid its hands on the Range Rover Evoque with the intention of making the admittedly already stylish compact crossover model even more eye-catching.

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Chevy Volt and Opel Ampera win 2012 European Car of the Year Award

The Chevrolet Volt and its sister model, the Ampera, which is sold as under both the Opel and Vauxhall nameplates, have won the 2012 European Car of the Year (COTY) Award with 330 points.

Coming into second place was the Volkswagen Up! city car with 281 points while the new generation of the Ford Focus finished third with 256 points.

The other cars that made it to the final round of the competition were the Range Rover Evoque (186 points), Fiat Panda (156 points), Citroen DS5 (144 points) and the Toyota Yaris (122 points).

The competition brought together votes from 59 automotive journalists in 23 European countries.

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