By 2014, one of three plants Jaguar-Land Rover in Britain will be closed. The established Tata, hoping that the draconian cuts will serve to increase the profitability of the group. According to reports from the site Auto News, the facilities of Castle Browmich (Jaguar), near Birmingham, and Solihull, house Land Rover, would be the unlucky papabili. The decision will be formalized in the first half of 2010. 

“And ‘a painful but necessary choice for our financial health,” said David Smith, chief executive of the Jaguar-Land Rover. Last year, the British duo has in fact cut over 2,500 jobs, stop payments and reduced the total use of plants to less than 60%.

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