RE: Junior Jaguar And XF 'RS' Projects Confirmed

RE: Junior Jaguar And XF 'RS' Projects Confirmed

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Nutkin

53 posts

186 months

Thursday 7th April 2011
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jagfan2 said:
Actually funny you should say that, as look who owns what was British steel then Corus, now http://www.tatasteelautomotive.com/en/ , who do most of the UK automotive steel body and chassis panels

Engines are mainly produced in Brigend, Wales using UK sourced materials, as are most of the bodies, depending on how you count it (weight/value/volume/by component) most JLR vehicles are well over 50% UK sourced and assembled
Erm the panels are made in finland.

M666 EVO

1,124 posts

161 months

Thursday 7th April 2011
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A Scotsman said:
Yes. A lot of ostensibly UK companies are financed by foreign money. That doesn't make me proud. That makes me wonder what the hell those numpties in the City actually do and why we're so idiotic as to give these things up so easily.
'numpties in the City?'

Hang on I work in the City, what have I done? rolleyes

jontysafe

2,351 posts

177 months

Thursday 7th April 2011
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"Doomed us all!!" Tsch those city types

M666 EVO

1,124 posts

161 months

Thursday 7th April 2011
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jontysafe said:
"Doomed us all!!" Tsch those city types
Well, quite!

We're all too busy spending our extortionate bonuses on fois gras, truffles and Chateau Le Fit to worry about mere trifles such as Jaaaaaaag and their existence...

PS. If only that were true!.. I do love a Jaaaaaah though cool

Slade Alive

784 posts

158 months

Thursday 7th April 2011
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jagfan2 said:
Actually funny you should say that, as look who owns what was British steel then Corus, now http://www.tatasteelautomotive.com/en/ , who do most of the UK automotive steel body and chassis panels

Engines are mainly produced in Brigend, Wales using UK sourced materials, as are most of the bodies, depending on how you count it (weight/value/volume/by component) most JLR vehicles are well over 50% UK sourced and assembled
About as British as could be then. Wonder what the numbers would be for a facelift XJS given there was no Indian in them!

PhilJames

234 posts

192 months

Friday 8th April 2011
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Hellbound said:
GM, Volkswagen, Toyota, Mercedes Benz, Audi, Fiat and Skoda all manufacture cars in India at the moment. It's a massive market that's growing year on year. Don't hold your breath regarding Jaguar and Land Rover production remaining solely in the UK. Sooner or later manufacturing WILL go to China, India and South America. As long as we keep designing and building some of them I guess it doesn't matter.
It does seem a bit doom and gloom when you look at it like that. There are plans for JLR manufacturing in China to support the growing Chinese market, but that's a completely new setup and will be supported by the British manufacturing plants, which will supply the Chinese assembly line with parts. It's to facilitate an expanding market nothing is moving anyware.

You may well find the reason they are in those terratories is because the Chinese and Indian markets (eg) are getting so big, European production alone cannot cope with the increase, just like Japanese cars are made here for the European market.

Chinese customers prefer to buy imported cars, according to a recent ex client (at VW).

Ironically its British engineering Ratan Tata has turned to for his next gen Tata City car (Pixel). Which has more advanced engineering than any of the other city cars on the market. It's not all bad for us Brits wink

Black S2K

1,462 posts

248 months

Friday 8th April 2011
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PhilJames said:
It does seem a bit doom and gloom when you look at it like that. There are plans for JLR manufacturing in China to support the growing Chinese market, but that's a completely new setup and will be supported by the British manufacturing plants, which will supply the Chinese assembly line with parts. It's to facilitate an expanding market nothing is moving anyware.

You may well find the reason they are in those terratories is because the Chinese and Indian markets (eg) are getting so big, European production alone cannot cope with the increase, just like Japanese cars are made here for the European market.

Chinese customers prefer to buy imported cars, according to a recent ex client (at VW).

Ironically its British engineering Ratan Tata has turned to for his next gen Tata City car (Pixel). Which has more advanced engineering than any of the other city cars on the market. It's not all bad for us Brits wink
Intelligent post. (TFFT!)

Indeed there is a LOT that is engineered here, but 'tranplant' factories will increasingly become important.

Anyway, I thought this thread was about Jaguar's new product portfolio; whether the new X-type is a rebodied Freeloader or off their own plank is still a moot point, I understand.

jagfan2

391 posts

176 months

Tuesday 26th April 2011
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Nutkin said:
jagfan2 said:
Actually funny you should say that, as look who owns what was British steel then Corus, now http://www.tatasteelautomotive.com/en/ , who do most of the UK automotive steel body and chassis panels

Engines are mainly produced in Brigend, Wales using UK sourced materials, as are most of the bodies, depending on how you count it (weight/value/volume/by component) most JLR vehicles are well over 50% UK sourced and assembled
Erm the panels are made in finland.
Alu ones may be, but thought steel ones were pressed in house, XType/Freeleander ones are at Halewood , fairly sure Solihull do there own to with UK sourced steel