Range Rover Evoque, the new age sports utility vehicle form the global portfolio of Jaguar Land Rover, will be brought in the Indian auto market through CBU (completely built unit) route. This will be the initial mode of Import of the car in the Indian market, and later on the company is expected to start assembling the vehicle in the Indian market itself. The Range Rover Evoque will possibly be imported as CBU from JLR factory at Halewood, UK.
At present, Tata Motors’ British Subsidiary Land Rover has an assembling plant in the India at Chikhli near Pune, where it will start assembling Freelander 2 sports utility vehicle (SUV) by the end of this year. The company plans to import the Freelander 2 through CKD (Completely Knocked-Down Units) route and will be having a capacity to assemble 2000 units of the SUV per annum. This is the same plant where the company had a tie-up with Mercedes Benz about a year back. Thus, starting the assembling operations for Range Rover Evoque is not likely to take place in the initial months of its debut in the country.
As per the recent media reports, the Range Rover Evoque was recently spotted testing near Automobile Research Association of India (ARAI) office in Pune, indicating towards its launch in the Indian auto market in near future.
