JLR Products in Wiltshire

[swanny200]

I have only just moved from Scotland to Wiltshire a couple of months ago and I have seen a lot of Jaguar/Land Rover products on my travels (I'm a taxi driver) with red on white 5 figure numberplates, I am assuming that they are testing as some of them have half camouflage on them. In the last month I have seen numerous new discovery's, some nice f-type coupes (including one really nice one this morning with a Black Shelby like stripe and pop up spoiler) and a few evoques/rangeys, my question is though why Wiltshire?, it seems a bit far from their factories, I tend to start seeing them in Melksham and have followed a few from Trowbridge down the A350 through Westbury and just losing them on the A36 towards Salisbury.

[Saleen836]

heading for the JLR dealership in Salisbury perhaps?

[BFG TERRANO]

I can't answer you but I have also seen a lot of "half taped up jags" on what looks like trade plates in the area. Usually two or three car convoys.

[Slinky1989]

If they have number plates that begin with OU14 or OV14 (and there are a couple of others I can't remember), they're probably development cars on mileage accumulation. Test drivers will take cars out and drive around certain circuits for hours a day to rack the test mileage up.

If they aren't covered in camo then it's likely to be features like gearbox/engine configurations, infotainment testing (satnav etc) or any number of other things.

If they are camo'd, then it's probably a facelift version of whatever car it is you see. Lots of 4wd F-types running around that have the bumper and the bonnet taped up - http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Secret-new-cars/Searc...

[Magic919]

There's an accelerated weathering lab in Swindon that Jaguar (& LR) apparently use.

[swanny200]

The plates are like trade plates but are 5 digit numbers starting 18 or 19, most are half taped up so I wouldn't assume that they are going to a dealership, I have seen one new discovery on an OU14 reg, I am assuming then that they do the run as some kind of circuit as it is always between 9am and 10am that I see them