RE: Jaguar F-Type Coupe: Driven

[matrignano]

How are the cabrios selling?
I've only seen 2 or 3 in central London, which is bizarre.

[JiggyJaggy]

Lemington is pretty far for me to go car spotting! And yes I was hoping to see more than 1/2 in central London. Bar the demo's at Lookers Park Royal I have only seen 1 private car in central around the Hyde Park area!

[Joffery666]

Carl_Docklands said:

This is a better looking car than the current generation 911. It probably sounds better and offers better value for money once optioned up. Don't care if the 911 is faster or more economical (to an extent).

BritsIndia 1 - 0 Germans.

I await the Germans response which should be breaking cover at the end of this year.

Edited that for you. You think British owned jag would still exist, let alone be making cars of this standard!?....

[kambites]

Does the ownership of the parent company really have any bearing at all on the nationality of the cars? Seems a weird way to look at it.

[JonnyVTEC]

The English Premierleague would be a little different aswell on that basis....

[JiggyJaggy]

I think it does seeing as Jaguar/LandRover's outlook and desirability changed entirely once taken over by Tata.

[Carl_Docklands]

Joffery666 said:

Carl_Docklands said:

This is a better looking car than the current generation 911. It probably sounds better and offers better value for money once optioned up. Don't care if the 911 is faster or more economical (to an extent).

BritsIndia 1 - 0 Germans.

I await the Germans response which should be breaking cover at the end of this year.

Edited that for you. You think British owned jag would still exist, let alone be making cars of this standard!?....

There is no Indian engineering or design in this car. Indian money, management and enterprise yes but no engineering, design.

Its even assembled in Castle Bromwich !

Similar applies for Land Rover and some of the foreign owned UK based Formula 1 teams, including McLaren.

It is not always the case though, look at Rolls and the Ghost/Phantom British badge, German engineering !

[unrepentant]

TATA's ownership of JLR has been nothing but positive.

[Krikkit]

JiggyJaggy said:

I think it does seeing as Jaguar/LandRover's outlook and desirability changed entirely once taken over by Tata.

Massive investment by the new parent group is the nub. I've heard that the Tata management style is relatively hands-off (or so I've heard from an employee, they could be wrong!) to let JLR decide how they want to do things, but with the readies to keep them in business, something that Ford (at the time) simply couldn't afford to do. Now they're turning decent profits from the volume of great cars they're producing.

[unrepentant]

Krikkit said:

Massive investment by the new parent group is the nub. I've heard that the Tata management style is relatively hands-off (or so I've heard from an employee, they could be wrong!) to let JLR decide how they want to do things, but with the readies to keep them in business, something that Ford (at the time) simply couldn't afford to do. Now they're turning decent profits from the volume of great cars they're producing.

Au contraire. Dr Speth has said that the company receives no subsidies from Tata and must fund everything from it's own cash flow. (Automobile Magazine Feb 2014) Fortunately JLR is profitable and with a full order book presumably has great cash flow.

[Martian O]

Spaff, spaff, spaff!

[Carl_Docklands]

[k-ink]

Martian O said:

Spaff, spaff, spaff!

Indeed. Personally I feel the black coupe is on another level. Simply porn.