Land Rover has achieved record global sales in March 2010 selling over 24,000 vehicles – an increase of 43.1% versus the same period last year. The MENA region also achieved phenomenal success in Q1 2010 with an increase of 19.9% in sales compared to Q1 2009.
Land Rover, one of the world’s most renowned luxury, premium SUV manufacturers, has reiterated its commitment to the Middle East by venturing into a new an untapped market – the northern region of Iraq also know as Kurdistan.
The facelifted 2010 Range Rover has been launched in the UAE and other GCC markets. Uncannily popular in rich cities such as Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the Tata-owned company’s Range Rover model has sold well in its current shape, which was developed under BMW ownership and marketed during Ford management. The new version changes little on the outside, but major updates reside under the skin.
Alfardan Premier Motors Co., member of Alfardan Group of Companies and Land Rover’s exclusive importer in Qatar, has been chosen the winner of the Customer Service Performance Program for the fourth successive year. The program is an annual review of performance, efficiency and productivity of the After-Sales Team of Land Rover from all over Middle East & North Africa. The award was recently presented in Dubai to Mohamed Kandeel, General Manager of Alfardan Premier Motors by Robin Colgan, Managing Director of Jaguar & Land Rover Middle East.
Land Rover has been enrolling its customers in Britain to pay a certain amount to offset the pollution that their thirsty vehicles are going to cause up to 72,000 km. The monetary amount, calculated according to the amount of carbon dioxide released, is used by an organisation called ClimateCare in charitable activities around the world, aimed at reducing overall worldwide pollution. Land Rover has now decided to offer the programme to Middle East customers, except that it is included in the price of the vehicle as standard.
So a few weeks ago, the staff manning the front desks at the Immigration department made my father run around different counters over two days as he tried to get a residence visa for my college-going brother, since the clerks were on a power-trip and kept asking for random bits of unneeded paperwork, which in the end were discarded without being checked. Incidentally, a few days ago, while dropping my mother off at the airport, I argued with red-shirted staff as they weren’t letting me pull my mother’s heavy suitcase up till the first x-ray scanner (much before the actual check-in counters,