Jaguar Land Rover Signs Agreement With Slovakia for New Factory

An employee works on the bodywork of a Range Rover Sport SUV at Tata Motors Ltd.'s Jaguar Land Rover vehicle manufacturing plant in Solihull, U.K.

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Jaguar Land Rover, the U.K. luxury-car unit of Tata Motors Ltd., plans to build a factory to make the vehicles in Slovakia.

The plant, proposed at Nitra in western Slovakia, will have a capacity to produce 300,000 cars, with the first vehicle expected to roll out in 2018, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Jaguar Land Rover will conduct a feasibility study for the new plant with the Slovakian government, according to the statement.