JAGUAR

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British sports car and luxury brand, founded as a sidecar maker in 1922 and owned by Tata Motors since 2008.

Founded: 1922, as the Swallow Sidecar Company
Founders: William Lyons, William Walmsley
Renamed: Jaguar Cars in 1945
Owner: Tata Motors, within Jaguar Land Rover

The business started in 1922 as the Swallow Sidecar Company, making motorcycle sidecars before turning to car bodies. It traded as SS Cars and in 1945 the name changed to Jaguar Cars.

Jaguar became part of British Leyland, was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984 and was bought by Ford in 1990. Ford sold Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors in 2008, and the two marques were merged into Jaguar Land Rover in 2013.