JLR car sales recover after production restart following cyber attack
The UK’s largest car manufacturer said it sold 95,300 vehicles to dealers in the three months to March 31, surging 61.1% against the prior quarter.
Car giant JLR has revealed a recovery in sales over the past quarter after restarting production following the impact of a major cyber attack.
The UK’s largest car manufacturer said it sold 95,300 vehicles to dealers in the three months to March 31, surging 61.1% compared with the previous quarter.
Retail sales, meanwhile, increased by 16.2% to 92,700 vehicles compared with the prior quarter.
JLR, which is owned by India’s Tata, was forced to halt production across its UK factories for five weeks from September 1 last year due to a cyber-attack, weighing on sales in late 2025.
All of the group’s manufacturing sites: including factories in Solihull, West Midlands, and Halewood, Merseyside – stopped production but restarted in October.
It said production is now at “normal levels” following the incident.
Nevertheless, quarterly sales to dealers were still 14.5% lower than the same quarter a year earlier, with a 23.1% drop in the UK.
It linked the fall to disruption from the cyber incident, the impact of US tariffs, market challenges in China and the planned wind-down of legacy Jaguar models.
Chinese sales tumbled by 29.8% amid continued struggles in the Chinese car market.
Retail sales were down 14.3% for the quarter year-on-year.