JLR Fork out for huge car collection.

JLR Fork out for huge car collection.

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onyx39

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11,120 posts

150 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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Would love to have a poke around this little lot!

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/anything-goes/ja...

Rower

1,378 posts

266 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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Me too !

nicanary

9,788 posts

146 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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Had a bit of brain-fade then, and thought some knuckle-dragging boyband had invested in classic cars. Phew!

jamesatcandsc

232 posts

156 months

crostonian

2,427 posts

172 months

Saturday 26th July 2014
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Wonder what they'll do with the non JLR content?

Shaw Tarse

31,543 posts

203 months

Saturday 26th July 2014
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Anyone with a Jag or LR should get free admission to view the collection smile

lythaby

156 posts

201 months

Saturday 26th July 2014
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Wonder if it'll be going into the huge new Jag showroom they're building on the A40.

lowdrag

12,878 posts

213 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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It is a wonderful collection, but little known except in Jaguar club circles. Here's the XKSS being tested at Goodwood:-



Sadly, it is a reproduction built three years or so back, but a 100% accurate one. The collection first appeared "for sale" with a magazine quoting £100 million, a figure they plucked out of the air I guess. What the real sale price was only the buyer and vendor will know. Eight years back vandals broke into the unit and played bumper cars with the collection, resulting in untold damage. The perpetrators got a clip round the ear and were told to behave better.

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/archive/2006/02/2...

Whatever, good to see the collection has gone to the best home possible.

Cheib

23,212 posts

175 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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Well with the heritage they have it's great to see them investing in it ...I just don't really see that they can genuinely extract value from just owning these cars. I think they may have plans to use a lot of them.

williamp

19,248 posts

273 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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crostonian said:
Wonder what they'll do with the non JLR content?
Benchmark against the new XE?? paperbag