JAGUAR LAND ROVER CUSTOMERS IMMERSE THEMSELVES IN VIRTUAL VEHICLES

19 January 2017

Whitley, UK: The UK’s largest automotive manufacturer is pioneering a new way of buying cars across its global network, using Virtual Reality so that customers won’t need to wait for newly launched vehicles to arrive in their local showroom.

Whitley, UK: The UK’s largest automotive manufacturer is pioneering a new way of buying cars across its global network, using Virtual Reality so that customers won’t need to wait for newly launched vehicles to arrive in their local showroom.

Jaguar Land Rover’s world-leading Virtual Reality Experience packs will be introduced across retailers by the end of this month to immerse customers in each new vehicle the company launches.

Even before vehicles are available, retailers will be able to connect customers to a virtual tour where they can see and interact with a life-size model through a VR headset. Using the latest digital technology, the headset will take customers on a journey ‘under the hood’, with the help of compelling animations to tell the technical stories which make the vehicle special.

The VR Experience also enables the customer to explore the vehicle interior in 360 degrees from different viewpoints. A tablet version of the experience is also available if customers want to remind themselves or obtain more details when talking through options with the retailer.

As if our vehicles weren’t exciting enough already, this new way of buying a car will engage customers further with our innovative capabilities. The VR Experience will also help retailers to break the ice with customers and inject even more fun into the process of buying our vehicles.

Andy Goss
Jaguar Land Rover Group Sales Operations Director

Jaguar Land Rover will roll out the VR Experience across more than 1,500 retailers in 85 markets, localised into 20 languages. Jaguar Land Rover trialled the technology during the launch of the F-PACE in the UK market last year, and will implement it with each new vehicle launched during 2017, starting with the all-new Land Rover Discovery.

 

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Notes to Editors

Notes to editors: 

  • Jaguar Land Rover is the largest automotive manufacturer in Britain.
  • Over the past five years, Jaguar Land Rover has doubled sales and employment, more than tripled turnover, and invested over £12 billion in new product creation and capital expenditure.
  • With a balanced regional distribution of sales, in 2016 Jaguar Land Rover sold more than 583,000 vehicles, up 20% on the previous year. Of the total, Jaguar sold 148,730 vehicles and Land Rover sold 434,583 vehicles.
  • Jaguar Land Rover will invest over £3 billion in its products and facilities in Fiscal 2016/17.
  • Jaguar Land Rover is one of the UK's largest exporters and generates over 80% of its revenue from exports. Manufacturing is centred in the UK, with additional plants in China, Brazil and India and a new plant under construction in Slovakia.