Jaguar - an ‘old mans’ car?
Discussion
Yipper said:
Jags defo still attract the Viagra crowd.
Saw an F-Type SVR this morning and the old boy musta bin well into his 50s or 60s.
The F-Pace is starting to bring down the average owner age. Plenty of middle managers in their 40s now starting to buy / lease / companycar them.
You don’t see lots of 50-60 year olds in any other car?Saw an F-Type SVR this morning and the old boy musta bin well into his 50s or 60s.
The F-Pace is starting to bring down the average owner age. Plenty of middle managers in their 40s now starting to buy / lease / companycar them.
Porsche, Merc, Aston even?
ghost83 said:
MellowshipSlinky said:
Asked her *why* she thinks that.
Yeah she says their styling the colours and interiors look old manish and she’s only seen oldies drive themMy mrs doesn’t like my F-Type, mostly the colour and size I think, but she can’t stand hot hatches - Focus RS, VW Golf etc - she thinks they’re a chav car and anyone over mid twenties looks a dick in them!
I guess it’s just peoples perception, and once a tag sticks it takes a while for it to disappear.
)MellowshipSlinky said:
Thanks.
My mrs doesn’t like my F-Type, mostly the colour and size I think, but she can’t stand hot hatches - Focus RS, VW Golf etc - she thinks they’re a chav car and anyone over mid twenties looks a dick in them!
I guess it’s just peoples perception, and once a tag sticks it takes a while for it to disappear.
I had a double six when I was 19 and an XKR when 30. My father used race Jags in the 50s and 60s and my mother and father both drove them in my childhood. As did my grandfather. My mrs doesn’t like my F-Type, mostly the colour and size I think, but she can’t stand hot hatches - Focus RS, VW Golf etc - she thinks they’re a chav car and anyone over mid twenties looks a dick in them!
I guess it’s just peoples perception, and once a tag sticks it takes a while for it to disappear.
I think the new Jags are lovely cars. My wife (Italian) is always wanting me to buy another. She considers them to be the English Maserati but with more luxurious interiors.
I have to work quite hard to not buy one. The supercharged XK estate is very tempting.
As others have said they’ve invested very heavily to get rid of the old man image they acquired in the late 70s to when TATA saved them, which they’ve clearly achieved. However, like every single manufacturer with near £100k cars on their books the largest demographic in the West with the money to buy them is the over 60s.
Murphy16 said:
I'm 26, and I went to look at a Jag XE-S at Duckworth Jaguar near Boston yeaterday. All my friends around age group don't see them as old mans cars, they think it's a pretty cool alternative to the usual Audis/BMWs they drive.
I'm 29 and the people I know of that are an age with me think the same, I think that the XE, F Type and F Pace have helped their image quite a bit, with the younger crowd anyway
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