Europeans Not Buying British Cars due to Brexit

Europeans Not Buying British Cars due to Brexit

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Hugh Jarse

3,524 posts

206 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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The Guardian doesnt half peddle some shyte.
The pound is @10% lower than before brexit, are they telling us that is hurting car firms and profitability. LMAO.

SuperHangOn

3,486 posts

154 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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They should worry more about their readership figures.

andy43

9,730 posts

255 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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SuperHangOn said:
They should worry more about their readership figures.
Most guardian webpages have a plea for a donation to keep them afloat hehe

Wobbegong

15,077 posts

170 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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SuperHangOn said:
They should worry more about their readership figures.
They're down due to Brexit

sheepman

437 posts

161 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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you can usually take whatever he says with a pinch of salt, this is the same bloke that said in the last pay deal we're basically paid to much as it is and that what they have offered is too good already. And when he walked round the car park he asked why its full of Fords and not JLR cars

very odd man, who says some very odd things.

Camoradi

4,294 posts

257 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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MarshPhantom said:
The Guardian didn't just pull this story from their rear-end. They were quoting the boss off JLR.
..and we all know how much we can trust the heads of big businesses

CrutyRammers

13,735 posts

199 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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A whole page story made up of a single, 1 line quote, which as others have pointed out, is clearly bks anyway.
Actual sales figures or GTFO.

skinnyman

1,641 posts

94 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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More fool the idiots that don't buy the car they actually want because they're grumpy about Brexit

anonymous-user

55 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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It's just rubbish. Plenty on JLR products in Munich the other week, usual headline making nonsense.

sticks090460

1,079 posts

159 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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This shows all foreigners are stupid, since the £ has fallen considerably against the € and hence the cars and parts will be much cheaper. Or possibly it's just the typically left-wing motivated bks that the Gruniad touts as journalism.

jayemm89

4,043 posts

131 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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Bloody Thatcher

williamp

19,264 posts

274 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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My Mum and dad went to calais and they didnt see ANY Noble M600, Aerial Atom or Caterhams in the hypermarche carpark. The brexit bds

jayemm89

4,043 posts

131 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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sticks090460 said:
This shows all foreigners are stupid, since the £ has fallen considerably against the € and hence the cars and parts will be much cheaper.
I spoke to someone from Lotus shortly after the vote and all their European customers were desperate to pay off their cars long before delivery, can't think why!

paranoid airbag

2,679 posts

160 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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manracer said:
Who cares?

People, and the guardian need to remember the world is MUCH bigger than the EU. Asia, America, Russia etc....

But then that wouldn't play into the guardians fear mongering hands...
Erm, I think I agree with your overall point (this is gutter press), but... are you suggesting JLR sell cars to the Atlantic Ocean?

Because the EU, Asia, America & Russia pretty much DOES cover most of the world - at least, the vast majority of the world you can sell mass-market cars to.

confused

Funk

26,297 posts

210 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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paranoid airbag said:
manracer said:
Who cares?

People, and the guardian need to remember the world is MUCH bigger than the EU. Asia, America, Russia etc....

But then that wouldn't play into the guardians fear mongering hands...
Erm, I think I agree with your overall point (this is gutter press), but... are you suggesting JLR sell cars to the Atlantic Ocean?

Because the EU, Asia, America & Russia pretty much DOES cover most of the world - at least, the vast majority of the world you can sell mass-market cars to.

confused
You've misread. There's a full stop after EU. He's saying we should worry less about the EU and its 500m population and more about the other 7bn people elsewhere eg. Asia, America etc.

998420

901 posts

152 months

Monday 3rd October 2016
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So, lefty Socialist journalist in lefty paper whining and spreading halfwitted lies because the UK voted to leave the EU Socialist Super State

Maybe, just maybe it is just more stupid propaganda aimed at the fast disappearing rump of the horse that bolted the gate, long ago part 847483

Maybe we should just let in some more illegal immigrants and grovvel our way back into the EU, so our friends the French will buy more British cars once again.

nickfrog

21,187 posts

218 months

Monday 3rd October 2016
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998420 said:
Maybe we should just let in some more illegal immigrants and grovvel our way back into the EU
The UK was never within Schengen AFAIK so what difference does leaving the EU make to illegal immigration ?

Some Gump

12,704 posts

187 months

Monday 3rd October 2016
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Load of bks.

What kind of punter goes to a JLR showroom (which only sells british cars) just to say "I'm not buying this, brexit."? IMO the only people who want to do this weren't punters anyway.
If the JLR top brass have heard that excuse, I'm calling it salesman's excuses.

hora

37,163 posts

212 months

Tuesday 4th October 2016
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I've stopped reading the Guardian, it's becoming hysterical at times. Has it changed ownership or new Editor over the past 1-2yrs? Seems to have become more focused on headline grabbing

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

127 months

Tuesday 4th October 2016
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nickfrog said:
998420 said:
Maybe we should just let in some more illegal immigrants and grovvel our way back into the EU
The UK was never within Schengen AFAIK so what difference does leaving the EU make to illegal immigration ?
You're not expecting reality and logic to suddenly apply, are you?