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Originally Posted by terence bower
Rather sad and disturbing news is that Ford have sold of the manufacturing rights to the Indian company Tata,a company not exactly renowned for quality vehicles.The great shame is that because of the controlling company's reputation,will probably amount to the complete demise of yet another British name. Rust In Piece Jaguar.
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Frankly the saddest thing for Jaguar (and LR) was when they got taken over by BL (or whatever it was called at the time.
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The best possible thing for British car manufacturing was when they finally shot the disaster that was Austin/Rover/Longbridge. Pity it was 20 years too late.
Jaguar under Ford began to design and, most importantly, build decent cars. (And LR under BMW and later Ford, began to come good again.)
Let's hope that Tata build on the strengths which we hope still exist at Jaguar and LR. Who 'owns' the firms matters less than what those firms can do by way of design and turning that design into well-built vehicles.
Have you seen the new Jag? An example was in the paddock at Donington last weekend (albeit parked stupidly when I saw it!) and it looks superb.
Regards
Jim