Land Rover is a brand of Tata Motors.

78 years, three owners

The year is coloured by whoever held it at the time.

1. 1948 Land Rover began in 1948 as a single Rover model, unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show as a utility four-wheel drive designed by Maurice Wilks. It became a marque in its own right only decades later, but JLR dates the brand to that 1948 debut.
2. 2000 Ford bought Land Rover from BMW on 30 June 2000 for about 2.6 billion dollars, roughly two-thirds of it paid at closing and the rest in 2005. What changed hands was the Land Rover business alone - the whole product line and the assembly and engineering facilities at Solihull and Gaydon - and expressly not Rover's passenger car business or its financial services arm, the rest of the Rover Group having been broken up by BMW earlier that year. Ford put the marque alongside Jaguar, Volvo and Aston Martin in its Premier Automotive Group, and the two Coventry marques then moved together to Tata Motors in 2008. The acquisition vehicle is visible at Companies House: number 04019301 was incorporated as LRA COMPANY on 16 June 2000, a fortnight before completion, and renamed LAND ROVER on 16 August 2000.
3. 2008 Ford sold Land Rover to Tata Motors, completing on 2 June 2008. One sale and purchase agreement, signed on 25 March 2008 and announced the next day, covered both Land Rover and Jaguar - brands, plants and intellectual property - for 2.3 billion dollars in cash, with Ford putting about 600 million dollars into the two marques' pension plans.