{"id":28002,"date":"2019-01-10T10:38:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T10:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28002"},"modified":"2019-01-10T10:45:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T10:45:07","slug":"jlr-breaks-sale-records-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/10\/jlr-breaks-sale-records-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"JLR Breaks Sale Records in US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\nMidlands car giant Jaguar Land Rover notched up record-breaking sales figures\nin December. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JLR\ncelebrated a record-breaking double in the US, with monthly and annual sales\nrising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nMidlands car maker sold 14,079 vehicles in December 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nis a 24 per cent increase over the same month in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nnews comes as a welcome boost for Jaguar Land Rover as it copes with a number\nof challenges, including uncertainty over Brexit, declining demand for diesel\nvehicles and slowing sales in China.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nDecember 2018 33 per cent more Land Rovers were sold than in December\n2017.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe\nEberhardt, president and CEO, Jaguar Land Rover North America, said: \u201cWe are\npleased to finish another year with record-setting sales for Jaguar Land Rover\nin the US.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLand\nRover continues to prove its reign in the luxury SUV market by achieving its\nfourth consecutive record-setting sales year on the heels of announcing the\nhighly anticipated return of the iconic Defender to the US market.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis\nsuccess is truly a testament to the strength of our product lineup and the\ndedication of our retailer network.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Midlands car giant Jaguar Land Rover notched up record-breaking sales figures in December. JLR celebrated a record-breaking double in the US, with monthly and annual sales rising. The Midlands car maker sold 14,079 vehicles in December 2018. This is a 24 per cent increase over the same month in 2017. The news comes as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,53,112],"tags":[744,1003,1821],"class_list":["post-28002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-latest","category-top-stories","tag-jaguar-land-rover","tag-jlr","tag-joe-eberhardt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}