"Jaguar Land Rover is readying staff to resume manufacturing in the coming days, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Reg. The cyber-stricken automaker did not commit to a firm restart date, but the spokesperson said manufacturing plants across the UK will be seeing increased levels of activity as they return to life following an extremely costly period of downtime. Whenever manufacturing begins, it will likely take several weeks for all three factories to start running at typical speed."
"JLR said it shut down its systems on September 2, 2025. David Bailey, professor of business economics at the University of Birmingham, said: "It's one of the worst crises the company has ever faced. We've seen it get through the global financial crisis, through COVID, through the semiconductor crisis, but we've not had anything like this before, where the company has not made any cars for a month.""
"To help with the company's financial recovery, the UK government issued a £1.5 billion ($2 billion) loan guarantee at the end of September following pressure from unions and talks with JLR suppliers. Business secretary Peter Kyle said the loan was expected to help safeguard jobs across JLR's supply chain, which the cyberattack had imperiled and reportedly led to redundancies within days of the disruption."
Jaguar Land Rover is preparing staff to restart manufacturing at UK plants after a cyberattack forced a shutdown on September 2, 2025. Wolverhampton is expected to restart first, followed by Solihull and Halewood, with several weeks needed for all factories to reach typical production speeds. Economists estimate each day of downtime costs JLR £5–10 million, with potential revenue losses of £2.2 billion and profit losses of £150 million. The disruption prompted redundancies within the supply chain and intensified financial pressure. The UK government provided a £1.5 billion loan guarantee to help safeguard jobs and support recovery.
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