Are Jaguar sales numbers kept secret by JLR?

[a8hex]

reddiesel said:

craigjm said:

Yes indeed. I don’t know if Lyon’s turned down the opportunity to use an etype Reddiesel. If he did then that was a mistake!

As far as I understand Craig , Broccoli and Saltzman the James Bond Film Producers couldn’t reach agreement with Sir William Lyon’s over a number of issues involved in the supplying of E Types and the opportunity was lost
forever

IIRC at the time Jaguar could sell all the E-Types they could make so didn't feel they need to give/lend the film makers any cars. Short sighted in hindsight, hindsight is always a wonderful thing. Sir William was never keen on investing or any any other form of spending money.

[Dashnine]

reddiesel said:

craigjm said:

Yes indeed. I don’t know if Lyon’s turned down the opportunity to use an etype Reddiesel. If he did then that was a mistake!

As far as I understand Craig , Broccoli and Saltzman the James Bond Film Producers couldn’t reach agreement with Sir William Lyon’s over a number of issues involved in the supplying of E Types and the opportunity was lost
forever

I read this as Craig, as in Daniel Craig and was thinking WTF, DC wasn’t involved back then…!

[Dashnine]

a8hex said:

IIRC at the time Jaguar could sell all the E-Types they could make so didn't feel they need to give/lend the film makers any cars. Short sighted in hindsight, hindsight is always a wonderful thing. Sir William was never keen on investing or any any other form of spending money.

The same thing (unless we’re mixing genres here) happened with The Saint, with the Roger Moore era Saint ending up with the P1800S. When The Saint with Ian Ogilvy was rebooted Jaguar couldn’t fall over themselves to supply a XJ-S.