JLR India operations remain unaffected by UK plant shutdown, cyber-attack

Jaguar Land Rover's India operations are not impacted by UK plant shutdowns after cyber-attacks, with sufficient inventory supporting demand for cars and spare parts

Luxury car brand Jaguar Land Rover's Indian operations have not been impacted so far due to plant shutdown and supply disruptions in the UK following the cyberattacks in August. 

 

Sources aware of the company position revealed that Indian operations are largely unaffected at this point. “JLR India is not facing issues as it has sufficient inventory build-up for the season. This includes cars as well as parts,” said the source. An email sent to JLR India remained unanswered till the time of going to press. 

 

The carmaker was forced to suspend production after a cyberattack at the end of August which forced it to shut down its IT networks. The factories remain suspended until at least October. JLR operates three factories in the UK - Solihull and Wolverhampton in West Midlands, and Halewood in Merseyside. It roughly produces around 1,000 cars per day in these plants. 

 

 

JLR India had seen a 40 per cent jump in retail sales to 6,183 units in FY25, driven by demand for models like the Defender and locally made Range Rover models. It currently sells Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, Range Rover Velar, Range Rover Evoque, Defender, Discovery and Discovery Sport in the country. The company has started local manufacturing of Range Rover and Range Rover Sport in Pune. 

 

While the India booking pipeline and retail numbers are not known for FY26, according to JLR's global wholesale and retail numbers for Q1FY26, there was a decline in volumes. The company sold 87,286 wholesale units, marking a 10.7 per cent drop from Q1FY25. Retail sales stood at 94,420 units, down 15.1 per cent from the previous year. This was due to the planned wind-down of legacy Jaguar models such as the XE, XF, and F-TYPE, as part of Jaguar’s transition toward a fully electric portfolio. 

JLR global spokesperson said: “As part of the controlled, phased restart of our operations, today we have informed colleagues, suppliers and retail partners that sections of our digital estate are now up and running. The foundational work of our recovery

programme is firmly underway.  "We have significantly increased IT processing capacity for invoicing. We are now working to clear the backlog of payments to our suppliers as quickly as we can."

 

Our Global Parts Logistics Centre, which supplies the parts distribution centres for our retailer partners in the UK and around the world, is now returning to full operations. This will enable our retail partners to continue to service our clients’ vehicles and keep our customers mobile, the spokesperson said.  

 

The financial system it uses to process the wholesales of vehicles has been brought back online and they are able to sell and register vehicles for their clients faster, delivering important cash flow.