Following his departure from General Motors last week, former Opel head Carl-Peter Forster has reportedly landed a job as head of British operations for India’s Tata Motors. The new role will put Forster in charge of Tata-owned Jaguar and Land Rover.
Forster resigned as Opel’s CEO after General Motors failed to sell the ailing German brand to Canada’s Magna International but, according to the Times Online, the 55 year old executive won’t be without work for long. Tata Motors has reportedly signed Forster to head up its UK-based Jaguar and Land Rover operations.
Forster is no stranger to the Land Rover brand as he worked for BMW in the 1990s during the German automaker’s ownership of the luxury off-road brand. Forster also has close ties with England as he was born and raised in London.
Tata Motors has yet to confirm Forster’s new position but Forster is expected to take his place as head of British operation within the next few months. Jaguar Land Rover employs about 15,000 people.
11/09, 3:48 PM
posted by:
LDMAN
Great! Tata brought a BMW guy back into JLR. They do smoke some good stuff Mumbai. That is like adding insult to injury
11/09, 4:31 PM
posted by:
EMINEM
i saw this coming
11/09, 8:58 PM
posted by:
DenverGuy217
Wonder if he’ll get a shiny new Nano for a company car
11/09, 9:40 PM
posted by:
EMINEM
make it a nano with luxurious features.
11/09, 11:50 PM
posted by:
aggie531
A nano with a radio. ooh
11/10, 4:48 AM
posted by:
fordman
Hey everybody,Ford SUCKS! GM dumped that traitor NAZI after they found out he conspired against them to sell Opel to the Nazi’s.
11/10, 2:12 PM
posted by:
yarddog82abn
O.K…..
Opel dose have a better line-up then G.M. has here in the States, the cars are just better, and maybe some of you haven’t driven a Jag. lately, but they are better then ever…
CRAFTSMANSHIP,… QUALITY,… RELIABILITY,<(well, still to bee seen)…
But other then that, they are good f-ing cars…
Remember G.M. was "SELLING" Opel to "RAISE-CASH"!,
Not because Opel was doing bad….
11/11, 8:05 AM
posted by:
carstuff
No, they were not selling Opel to raise cash. Opel has been losing money for years and GM no longer had the cash reserves in the US to keep them going, just like operations here in the states.
There is huge overcapacity in Europe as there is in the US. Hard to make a profit. BUT as the link below says Opel is just to wound into the new Global GM and it would really have taken a hit to give controlling interest of it away.
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?title=GM,%20Magna%20face%20risks%20with%20Opel%20deal&artid=b4RYjW|hhN8=&type=