Jaguar Land Rover profits plunge as car sales miss a gear:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbys...-gear.html

Their own fault - we told them they were getting it wrong with the DS but they wouldn't listen! And once the Defender's gone with no replacement in sight...

Nothing to do with the DS, it's the chineses falling economy, the boom is over in China. 21MY Defender 90 S 3.0 D200

That may be part of it, but not all I think!

Jag has more to worry about, this XE is make or break. I've seen a couple, a nice blue one, very pleasing on the eyes. The new F-pace should boost Jaguars side of the business. 21MY Defender 90 S 3.0 D200

64 million empty properties does not help their economy. The same is happening in Sydney with about 4000 chinese investors simply buying property and leaving them empty waiting for capital increases. At some point it will fail and bring us all down. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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That explains a lot of the huge part prices increases of late

j77 wrote:

The new F-pace should boost Jaguars side of the business.

Team Sky used an F-Pace as a chase car on the first stage of this year's TdF and there were some good views of it towards the finish of Froome's ride. OK, it was pre-production and still had a little minimal camouflaging, but on the road it looked like just another bland and anonymous SUV. It will be interesting to see whether it can challenge Audi, BMW et al - I'm not sure it can. And the name isn't going to help. F-Pace

fat face seen to do OK with an equally stupid name At work
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"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

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That explains why when I passed one of my local Land rover dealer I found them selling Isuzu d max's as well as Land rover.

Any car firm that thinks its a bright idea to call a vehicle an "F-Pace" is clearly in deep trouble........

turboextreme wrote:

That explains why when I passed one of my local Land rover dealer I found them selling Isuzu d max's as well as Land rover.

Even the big Jag dealership in Brussels has diversified into Subaru sales in an attempt to boost sales/profits...

Metropolis wrote:

turboextreme wrote:

That explains why when I passed one of my local Land rover dealer I found them selling Isuzu d max's as well as Land rover.

Mine does too, but doesn't currently sell Jags (they're moving to a new bigger site because JLR say they have to have one of each model on display).

I do regret the passing of the "proper" 4x4 and wonder why everyone's jumping on the "fat car" (aka SUV) bandwagon. They say that's what the customer wants but it's more about that's all the customer can buy.

turboextreme wrote:

That explains why when I passed one of my local Land rover dealer I found them selling Isuzu d max's as well as Land rover.