Jaguar Land Rover Looking at North American Plant: Report

Detroit: Jaguar Land Rover is eyeing North America as a possible site to build a vehicle assembly plant, the former head of the British luxury automaker's parent said, according to trade publication Automotive News.

"The company is indeed looking at North America as a location for another plant," Tata Motors chairman emeritus Ratan Tata said on Tuesday, according to the trade publication. "Where they locate that plant, in which country or which state they locate, is something they will need to decide."

Ratan Tata did not specify at a conference in South Carolina where Jaguar Land Rover is looking, and emphasised he is not part of the decision-making process, the report said. He retired as chairman of Tata conglomerate at the end of 2012.

A spokesman for Jaguar Land Rover declined to comment on Wednesday.

The company said on February 6 that no decision on future manufacturing locations had been made, but it was evaluating opportunities to increase its global manufacturing capacity and North America as well as other locations were options.