JLR first 12 months, Cannot sell new car unless to JLR?

[knitware]

I had some docs sent to me today, has any one seen this stipulated before?

'Brand new Land Rover vehicles are only sold by the Jaguar Land Rover retailer network. Land Rover classifies a new car as a vehicle under 12 months old from point of registration.
As part of the agreement to purchase a brand -new Land Rover it is a condition that you will not resell or export the vehicle to anyone other than an official Land Rover retailer for a period of no less than 12
months. Failure to comply with this request could result in Marshall Jaguar Land Rover refusing future vehicle sales to you'.

How is this reasonable? Has anyone signed thus and sold outside of JLR?

[Decky_Q]

You get similar stipulations for fleet supplied vehicles, you basically bulk buy cars/vans/trucks so you get a fair discount and then have to agree not to sell them on at a profit/full price.

Never heard of anything like that for privately bought vehicles.

Could Marshall have claimed to JLR that they were buying vehicles to supply a fleet customer and are now selling them privately?

[David87]

Only heard of this with the Ford GT, but obviously that’s a bit different to a mass-produced Land Rover!

[anonymous-user]

That is the kind of stunt Porsche would pull, sounds like pretentions of grandure and a guarantee of getting seriously shafted if you need to get rid of the vehicle within the 12 months.

[anonymous-user]

For what it’s worth, Rolex ADs are starting to do the same now (or so the internet says…)

[TTmonkey]

So they are saying a 11 month old LR is brand new?

They are having a laugh

[Nickbrapp]

Doesn’t sound like they have a actual legal leg to stand on, if they refused to sell you another, you could just buy another one from another dealer network, or even better a brand that won’t break down 12 times in those 12 months


Most likely to stop flippers selling in demand models for much more (although I don’t know why JLR would care about that)

[Sheepshanks]

TTmonkey said:

So they are saying a 11 month old LR is brand new?

No - 'new'.

Wonder if there are potential legal ramifications though - in the unlikely event you have issues with the car, could it be rejected as it's still 'new'?

[crosseyedlion]

Marshall Jaguar Land Rover is only 1 franchise. If you intend on selling before 12 months. do it. If they want to lose a sale over their own rule... Order elsewhere

[abzmike]

How would they know?

[Durzel]

Nickbrapp said:

Doesn’t sound like they have a actual legal leg to stand on, if they refused to sell you another, you could just buy another one from another dealer network, or even better a brand that won’t break down 12 times in those 12 months


Most likely to stop flippers selling in demand models for much more (although I don’t know why JLR would care about that)

On what basis are you making that assertion? It sounds like it’s just a gut feeling?

So long as their terms of sale don’t violate some protected characteristic they can choose who to sell their products to. They’re a private company selling a non-essential product.

To answer the OP - this is more common on limited edition supercars. I think Porsche are known to do this too.

[Spleen]

abzmike said:

How would they know?

Very easily I imagine unless you strip your identity and start a new life.

[Krikkit]

Are you ordering the new Range Rover? That's the only reason I could think they'd write up something like this.

Even then I'd suggest they'd struggle to enforce it.

[Lily the Pink]

Not a problem - I sold my Velar for more money to a JLR franchise than the best offer from Motorway. With no hassle or haggle.

[CSLM3CSL]

I'm surprised an individual franchisee has the power to introduce terms like that unless it is company policy for all franchisees.

[GroundEffect]

Name and shame on Twitter and I'm sure it'll help get rid of this crap.

[abzmike]

Spleen said:

Very easily I imagine unless you strip your identity and start a new life.

If I sell my 6 month old Defender to a guy in the pub, how would they know? Are they trawling DVLA records or something?

[SmithCorona]

Are you buying from Marshall Mil/Dip sales, or plain retail?

[oldaudi]

Bloke at work had this. Bought a brand new defender and several Land Rover dealers were phoning him to ask for it back after 8 months. Pressure calls to explain that they should be given first refusal if he was to sell it. Due to a shortage and the used market higher than new ones , they were tripping over themselves to get it back to then resale at a higher price. I think he gave it back to them for £13000 more than he paid for it and then got into a cancelled Range Rover at a massive discount.

I guess they see that the used market is crazy at the moment and people are prepared to pay over the odds for the fashionable vehicles. A threat of not serving you in the future is fairly daft, I’m sure they’ll take your money.

Edited by oldaudi on Tuesday 21st December 21:07

[Gweeds]

Hilarious. What an act of desperation.