Jaguar Land Rover is finally putting real weight behind an American manufacturing push, and it is doing it with help from Stellantis. The plan is not to simply ship today’s Defender across the Atlantic, but to create new Defender-branded vehicles built in the United States for US buyers.
That idea hits several pressure points at once: tariff costs, currency swings, and how a relatively small luxury player can gain scale in a truck and SUV market.
