Ford has rejected an approach from Renault to buy ailing luxury-car maker Jaguar, the Sunday Times newspaper said.

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Reuters reported that the paper, citing senior motor industry sources, said Renault had expressed its interest in acquiring Jaguar to Ford last year, but Ford’s chiefs, led by chairman and chief executive Bill Ford, were understood to have rejected the French firm’s overtures.


Neither company would comment.