Jaguar Land Rover beat long-time leader Nissan to become the UK’s biggest car manufacturer in 2015, a position it has never previously held in the combined 70-year history of its constituent companies.
The U.S. state of Alabama finally lost out to the UK as the site of Aston Martin’s new SUV factory after the automaker decided not to build the new model on a Mercedes SUV platform, Andy Palmer, Aston Martin’s CEO, told me at the Geneva auto show.