Land Rover is a brand of Tata Motors.

78 years, five owners since 1980

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. 1988 Land Rover left state ownership in 1988 as a division of the Rover Group, the renamed BL, when the Government sold its shareholding to British Aerospace. Kenneth Clarke told the Commons on 29 March 1988 that the Government had "entered into a conditional contract with British Aerospace for the sale of the Government's shareholding in Rover Group" for 150 million pounds, with British Aerospace undertaking "not to relinquish control of Austin Rover and Land Rover within five years"; the European Commission cleared the terms in July and, in the Government's own later account, "BAe bought the Government's shareholding in Rover Group in July 1988". British Aerospace is not an entity in this dataset, so no stake is recorded for the six years it owned the marque.
3. 1994 BMW bought the Rover Group, Land Rover included, from British Aerospace in 1994. British Aerospace announced on 31 January 1994 that it had accepted BMW's offer for "its wholly-owned subsidiary Rover Group Holdings Ltd", and the European Commission cleared "the proposed acquisition by BMW AG, München, of 100% of the share capital of Rover Group Holdings plc, Birmingham, from British Aerospace plc" on 14 March 1994. Land Rover was the part BMW kept longest: when it broke up the group in 2000 it sold the Land Rover business to Ford. The seller, British Aerospace, is not an entity in this dataset.
4. 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.
5. 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. The company that took the marque was JaguarLandRover Limited, the shelf company Tata Motors had bought that January and renamed for the purpose, which is today Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc; Tata Motors' own filing says the acquisition was made "through JaguarLandRover Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TML Holdings Pte Ltd, Singapore, which is our 100% subsidiary". Jaguar Land Rover has held the marque ever since, with Tata Motors above it.