With a healthy automotive supply chain and financial incentives on offer, Slovakia was an attractive prospect for JLR to expand its production facility network, as Nick Gibbs reports
Europe’s newest volume passenger car plant might not keep the title for long if and when Volkswagen decides to confirm its planned new Skoda plant, but Jaguar Land Rover’s facility in Nitra, Slovakia is that rare beast in today’s uncertain climate: a brand new, greenfield assembly plant built in the EU.
The factory has a capacity of 150,000 units and officially opened in October 2018 making Land Rover’s Discovery large SUV. This year, production of its second vehicle started, a replacement for the iconic Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle which uses the same aluminium-intensive platform as the Discovery.
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