- The new generation of the Land Rover Defender will be presented at the next Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2019. The manufacturer has indicated that this new model will not be produced at the Solihull site in the United Kingdom, but at the Slovak site in Nitra, which it opened at the end of last year.

- Inovev had already indicated several years ago that the future Defender would be manufactured at the Nitra site and not at the Solihull site, mainly because of lower labour costs in Slovakia than in Great Britain. It is therefore not a consequence of Brexit, since this decision was taken well before the Brexit vote.

- The Nitra plant currently manufactures Discovery, whose sales remain well below targets. This is one of the reasons for the current difficulties of the Jaguar Land Rover group, which belongs to the Indian group Tata Motors.

- Other reasons for these difficulties are the drop in diesel car sales, the drop in demand in China and the United States, the massive investments made to renew and diversify the range shortly before the downturn in world markets, and the fear of the consequences of Brexit, which was postponed until the end of October 2019.

- The Slovak site in Nitra has a production capacity of 150,000 vehicles per year, with the possibility of doubling this volume in the medium term to 300,000 vehicles per year, which could effectively mean the closure of the Solihull or Halewood plants. Already in 2019, the Jaguar Land Rover division will cut 10% of its workforce worldwide.