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Wave Tata to Jaguar
Rather sad and disturbing news is that Ford have sold of the manufacturing rights to the Indian company Tata,a company not exactly renowned for quality vehicles.The great shame is that because of the controlling company's reputation,will probably amount to the complete demise of yet another British name. Rust In Piece Jaguar.
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Best move this to Road Cars. |
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26 Mar 2008, 08:25 (Ref:2161811) | #3 | ||
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Shall I dig up the old thread?
"Rather sad and disturbing news"? Don't think so, they've been in foreign ownership (Another of our former colonies) for quite a few years after all Tata is better than goodbye. |
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Yes I agree,but this can only be very bad news when a company such as this takes over from another company that knows how to build a half decent car. |
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The best possible thing for British car manufacturing was when they finally shot the disaster that was Austin/Rover/Longbridge. Pity it was 20 years too late. Jaguar under Ford began to design and, most importantly, build decent cars. (And LR under BMW and later Ford, began to come good again.) Let's hope that Tata build on the strengths which we hope still exist at Jaguar and LR. Who 'owns' the firms matters less than what those firms can do by way of design and turning that design into well-built vehicles. Have you seen the new Jag? An example was in the paddock at Donington last weekend (albeit parked stupidly when I saw it!) and it looks superb. Regards Jim |
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Well at least in a year or so we should be able to tell the difference between an XK and an Aston from more than 15feet.
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But will both of them still be built on a Mondeo floor pan? Or is that just a bit of urban misinformation?
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Not sure the Astn uses the Mondeo floor pan, or the XK for that matter. I think it's the X type and Lincoln Town car that is Mondeo. A few of them share the V6 ngine as well plus lots of electronics.
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The Saloons have always used the Mondeo floor pan,one of the reasons that Jaguar has been struggling these past few years.Personally I think they went wrong from the XJ6 onwards.
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Yeah, my mate has a pretty slick newish XJ. He was showing me all the toys in it, the centre display that has radio, sat nav, air con controls etc. is straight out of the Mondeo. I suppose this is good for economics for Ford but doesn't do much for image.
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I think the Image went when Ford took it over,and of course the XJS did nothing to help in the ninties.When you think back to the concept ,V12 Engine up front,all indipendant Suspension etc,and they handed the body design over to some unimaginetive muppet,wonder what would have happened if it had been a lightweight,ally bodied coupe instead of an overweight,predated pile of crap it turned out to be.
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Terence are you talking about the current-model XJ6 in post #10 (as opposed to the 1968 original!)? I agree it was a mistake to make it almost indistinguishable to the previous grandpa's axe model, but before that they got the S & X Types seriously wrong (much too conservative).
Time will tell whether sales increase enough with the new models but the losses are a big factor of course - mind you I think a company in a stronger financial position than Ford could offset that against what they learn with the "experimental" new technology and techniques in the XJ etc. |
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Thats the one,problem is ,i keep getting this image in my mind of panels being reshaped by hand in a back street.
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Financially, the Jaguar company will now be secure, as Tata have more assets (eg Corus) and forward thinking in their arsenal, whereas Ford continues to be a loss making organisation who aren't investing into anything for the future. Jaguar themselves were no longer losing money for Ford. I'm just sorry that a further British institution has now gone into foreign hands through mis-management |
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