Tata Strikes a Deal. Now What?

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The Jaguar and Land Rover employees I’ve talked to recently — the few still on the payroll — say that Ford cut off financial life support for the brands a while back. The U.S. headquarters building in Irvine, Calif., for Ford’s crumbling Premier Automotive Group, of which Jaguar and Land Rover were key components, is eerily empty.