Land Rover Monthly February 2023

@LAND_ROVER_MARTIN HELLO! I’m Martin, and I’ve been given the great honour of being the new Editor of Land Rover Monthly. It’s not going to be an easy task to fill Patrick Cruywagen’s boots, but I hope what I can bring to the magazine and ever-expanding LRM events roster will help you get the most from your Land Rover, learn something and have a good time along the way. A bit about me, then. I was brought up around Land Rovers, and learned to drive in a battered 200Tdi 110 truck cab that my dad drove on the farm he worked on. In year 10 of secondary school, I was lucky enough to do my work experience at my local Land Rover main dealer, and left after two great weeks with…

If you’re planning to attend a two-day Land Rover event in 2023, make it our Big Weekender – and being the middle of spring (20-21 May) we’re hoping for warmer climes than we’re experiencing now! Officially known as Land Rover Monthly Live, it celebrates 75 years of Land Rover and 25 years of LRM. The all-new event, hosted at the beautiful Malvern Three Counties Showground, features camping, a whole host of outdoor trade stands, arena displays, vehicle and club stands, an autojumble, Saturday live auction, a live events arena, entertainment on Friday and Saturday evening, and heaps more, including our special Hall of Fame. In addition to the popular Stockmans Restaurant that will open for breakfast, lunch and light refreshments – we also have a beer tent and various other…

FOLLOWING the news of large-scale job losses from Twitter, Meta and others, JLR is opening a new jobs portal for displaced workers from the tech industry to explore career opportunities, offering hybrid working patterns. The car manufacturer has almost 800 career opportunities available as part of its plans to become more data-driven, and said it would be a chance to work on its ‘vehicles of the future’ with positions available in the UK, Ireland, USA, India, China and Hungary. The available roles span areas in autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, electrification, cloud software, data science, machine learning and many more. Anthony Battle, Jaguar Land Rover’s chief information officer, said: ‘‘We are further strengthening our data and digital skills base so we can deliver our Reimagine strategy and become an electric-first business…

NORWICH’S new combined Jaguar Land Rover showroom is well and truly under way (as seen above), with the sprawling two-storey 3300 square metre facility expected to be ready by the end of next year. The site is predicted to create 80 jobs when it opens, providing Norfolk’s cathedral city with high-quality technical employment opportunities, as well as apprenticeship and training roles for school and college leavers. In addition to the showroom, there will be a workshop for MoTs, repairs, servicing, maintenance and valeting, as well as car and cycle parking. There’ll even be photovoltaic panels fixed to the roof to convert sunlight into electrical energy, which will be fed into the building’s electrical distribution system. The architects estimate that a tenth of the building’s energy will be generated from on-site…

JLR will hire around 300 apprentices in the UK in 2023 as the company continues to expand its talent pool as part of its transition to an electrified future. The hiring drive means over 800 people will join Jaguar Land Rover’s early careers programmes in 2023, a 55 per cent increase on last year’s figure and a new record intake for the company. Places are available across engineering, manufacturing, software engineering, data, logistics, and product development, with all successful applicants enrolled onto courses in autonomous driving, electrification and more. The programme includes flagship apprentice degree apprenticeship programmes in Digital Technology and Engineering for students pursuing careers in software engineering, data engineering and analytics, and cyber security. Apprenticeships at Jaguar Land Rover range from Level 3 to Level 7 and typically…

Freedom with a Freelander My husband Philip owns an original 2001 Freelander 1 Td4, with nearly 181,000 miles on the clock. He and my son Jay recently decided to drive from Madeley, Staffordshire, where we live, to John o’ Groats and Land’s End and back again in one weekend! They slept in the back and took a few bits of camping equipment with them. They covered 2400 miles in total. My husband trusts this car – I don’t and was expecting him to come back with the RAC, but the trusty Freelander did it again. They both got home safely. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I really hope it will make it into your magazine. It would be such a lovely surprise for the pair…