{"id":73633,"date":"2026-05-17T01:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/jlr-and-general-motors-eye-900m-contract-to-build-new-range-of-military-trucks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T01:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:54:45","slug":"jlr-and-general-motors-eye-900m-contract-to-build-new-range-of-military-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/jlr-and-general-motors-eye-900m-contract-to-build-new-range-of-military-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"JLR and General Motors eye \u00a3900m contract to build new range of military trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carmakers aim to expand into UK defence sector, exploiting spending boom by Nato countries<\/p>\n<p>Jaguar Land Rover and General Motors are considering an expansion into UK defence via a \u00a3900m military contract, as carmakers seek to exploit a spending boom by Nato countries racing to rearm.<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturers are among a group of automotive firms vying to make thousands of 4x4s for the armed forces to replace an ageing fleet of Land Rovers<strong> <\/strong>that have been out of production since 2016.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/17\/jaguar-land-rover-general-motors-military-contract-trucks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmakers aim to expand into UK defence sector, exploiting spending boom by Nato countries Jaguar Land Rover and General Motors are considering an expansion into UK defence via a \u00a3900m military contract, as carmakers seek to exploit a spending boom by Nato countries racing to rearm. The manufacturers are among a group of automotive firms &#8230; <a title=\"JLR and General Motors eye \u00a3900m contract to build new range of military trucks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/jlr-and-general-motors-eye-900m-contract-to-build-new-range-of-military-trucks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about JLR and General Motors eye \u00a3900m contract to build new range of military trucks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}