Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has revealed a sharp drop in sales over recent months as it prepares to restart production across its UK sites on Wednesday after weeks of disruption following a cyber attack.

The British carmaker said it had been a “challenging quarter” as it also grappled with the impact of higher US tariffs.

It revealed sales fell by 17.1% to 85,495 units between July and September, compared with the same period a year ago, with UK sales dropping by nearly a third.

The volume of wholesales tumbled by 24.2% year on year to 66,165 units.

JLR said this partly reflected a production freeze since the start of September after being targeted by hackers, which has caused significant disruption to its global operations.

But it is set to restart manufacturing operations on Wednesd

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