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Jaguar Land Rover Owner Beats Forecasts on Higher Sales

  • JLR posts highest profit in seven years, Tata Motors says
  • New electric Range Rover has waiting list of more than 16,000

A Range Rover SUV at Tata Motors Ltd.'s plant in Solihull, UK.

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Plc’s best quarterly profit in seven years helped the British luxury-car maker’s Indian parent beat estimates after surging orders for its SUVs.

Higher sales and reduced supply costs lifted pretax profit 73% to £627 million ($800 million) in the third quarter, Tata Motors Ltd. said Friday. Revenue rose 23% to £7.4 billion, accounting for about three-quarters of the Indian company’s total sales.