Editing Land Rover (section)

=== Ford era ===
After the introduction of the all-new Range Rover in 2001, Ford moved Land Rover further away from its traditional boxed ladder-frames, by introducing a [[Land Rover Discovery#Discovery 3 / LR3 (2004–2009)|new generation Discovery]] featuring "Integrated Body Frame", in 2004. From then on, only the Defender continued on Land Rover's traditional since 1948 underpinnings. Use of the [[Rover V8 engine]] in Land Rovers also ended with the replacement of the mk. II Discovery.

In 2006 Ford also purchased the [[Rover (marque)|Rover brand]] from BMW for around £6 million. BMW had retained ownership of the brand to protect the integrity of the Land Rover brand, with which 'Rover' might be confused in the US  –  market, and allowed it to be used under licence by [[MG Rover]] until it collapsed in 2005, at which point it was offered to the Ford Motor Company, who by then owned Land Rover. On 11 June 2007, Ford announced that it planned to sell Land Rover along with [[Jaguar Cars]]. Private equity firms such as [[Alchemy Partners]] of the UK, [[TPG Capital]], [[Ripplewood Holdings]], [[Cerberus Capital Management]] and [[One Equity Partners]] of the US, [[Tata Motors]] of India and a consortium comprising [[Mahindra & Mahindra]] of India and [[Apollo Management]] all initially expressed interest in purchasing the [[marque]]s from the Ford Motor Company.<ref name="From Archive.org-6375467">{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/08/24/afx4052453.html |title=India's Tata confirms interest in Land Rover, Jaguar |work=forbes.com |date=24 August 2007 |access-date=18 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208072836/http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/08/24/afx4052453.html |archive-date=8 December 2007 |url-status=dead |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |agency=AFX News Limited}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article3307647.ece |title=Tata in pole position to buy Jaguar and Land Rover marques from Ford |access-date=4 January 2008 |date=4 January 2008 |last=Clark |first=Nick |work=The Independent |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105014035/http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article3307647.ece |archive-date=5 January 2008}}</ref> On 1 January 2008, Ford formally declared that Tata was the preferred bidder.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1699920,00.html |title=Indian Company Top Bidder for Jaguar |access-date=4 January 2008 |date=3 January 2008 |agency=Associated Press |last=Krisher |first=Tom |magazine=Time |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106094214/http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1699920,00.html |archive-date=6 January 2008}}</ref> On 26 March 2008, Ford announced that it had agreed to sell its Jaguar and Land Rover operations to Tata Motors, and that it expected to complete the sale by the end of the second quarter of 2008.<ref name="ford_20080326"/>