Wtf is Jaguar doing?

[Radiant]

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[Interstellar]

HOW DO YOU TURN OFF WATCHED THREADS THE CHECKBOX DOES NOTHING IDC ABOUT JAGUAR

 

[dusman59]

Buy a Jag and get more vertical miles than horizontal. Been that way for along time. Many of my friends found out the hard way.

 

[9secondko]

The Sollei is how you do this kind of reveal correctly.

The Sollei is a bold fantasy, a timeless vehicle that drives on perfect sunny days, sipping champagne under the stars at the lake, not a worry or care in the world. Everything is fine, you're rich, you're driving an art piece surrounded by beautiful people in a lovely world.

It's an unironic luxury vehicle, an aspirational design that unabashedly embraces a late 1950s aesthetic to showcase how tech features could be implemented with the same care as new features were in classic vehicles.

exactly.

 

[keithwalton]

if Ford let go of them mid 2021, that would explain the stop of diesel F-150s. those 3.0L diesel V6s are Land Rover engines, evidenced by their stamps all over them. the EcoBoost was also just better in every way

The sale was in 2008 and was the rebirth of the JLR group after 18 years of under investment and asset stripping by ford.
Since tata the S type became the XF, a smaller XE was added and the F type coupe.

Then they jumped on the SUV bandwagon despite having the landrover brand and release the E, F and I pace (all junk)

There was an engine supply deal between Ford and JLR that ran until recently. That locked them to running some Ford based engines.

They cant seem to make their mind up at the moment as to whether they're going full EV or not. They shut down the XJ factory to re-tool it for EV's then part way through changed their mind then changed it back etc etc and have now put a stop on all new car sales until MY26

 

[DeluxeStang]

Jaguar has been kind of like the dollar store Aston Martin. Looks liek they want to go the Apple route. Good aspirations. Hopefully the vehicles are great and the marketing changes to reflect htat.

It's a good strategy on its own, but the timing is just off. If Jag had transitioned into this more expensive brand gradually, I don't think it would upset people as much. But to go from a brand selling 50-80 grand cars to a brand suddenly selling 250k cars is gonna be a huge shock to the brand and it's buyers. I just don't see it working unless the products are just out of this world immaculate.

 

[Bikeman315]

 

[Gregs24]

oh no, i totally agree. but you have to cut them some slack. they're probably still internally fighting on whether is "jag-u-are" or "jag-war" and have been suffering so much, so they probably count this as a win either way

That has never been an issue. It is and always has been 'jag-u-are'. Only in the US has it been mispronounced for years! But then the same applies in the US for most multi-syllable car brands

 

[Gregs24]

As I think about this spat of bad pubes (yes, I meant it!), it occurs to me, that the fall of Jaguar and Land Rover started just after Ford dumped them, and Tata Motors bought them. I really don't think it is the East Indian ownership, but rather that they were already well into a bad management downfall. Seems to me I remember Tata firing a bunch of designers and engineers after they took over.

Jaguar (JLR) were MUCH more successful after Ford sold them than during their ownership. Same for Volvo.

 

[Bikeman315]

That has never been an issue. It is and always has been 'jag-u-are'. Only in the US has it been mispronounced for years! But then the same applies in the US for most multi-syllable car brands

I remember when I bought mine hearing all the salespeople pronouncing Jag-u-ar. Strangely enough some got it wrong and no one corrected them.

 

[Alan Applegate]

It should be Jugular at this point, for its downward spiral soon to come!

 

[Dxm]

I don't know anybody who owns a Jaguar. It's out of reach for most people that surround me. Let them go woke and see what happens. It's no longer 2020, where all the companies were singing in unison the same tune about systemic oppression, gender inequities, climate change. For most ordinary people who don't speak wokeish, this kind of messaging is nauseating at this point. It seems weird that Jaguar would all of a sudden pull a Bud Light. Do I care? No.

 

[Alan Applegate]

To steal the bread for a moment. I wonder how many out there, even know how much green house gasses are emitted each year from all sources? Or even more important, what percentage is attributed to man?


The total is ≈850 trillion metric tons. Man's part is ≈48 trillion metric tons, or 6% of the total.

 

[Gregs24]

To steal the bread for a moment. I wonder how many out there, even know how much green house gasses are emitted each year from all sources? Or even more important, what percentage is attributed to man?


The total is ≈850 trillion metric tons. Man's part is ≈48 trillion metric tons, or 6% of the total.

No idea where your figures come from as you don't provide any evidence, but it doesn't stack up with other sources on the subject. Remember, of that '850 trillion tonnes' you quote (the non fossil fuel burning bit) is part of a carbon cycle so if there was no human activity the atmospheric CO2 would remain largely stable with slow changes as happened prior to industrialisation.

Overview of Greenhouse Gases | US EPA

The Atmosphere: Getting a Handle on Carbon Dioxide - NASA Science

The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is currently at nearly 412 parts per million (ppm) and rising. This represents a 47 percent increase since the beginning of the Industrial Age, when the concentration was near 280 ppm, and an 11 percent increase since 2000, when it was near 370 ppm. Crisp points out that scientists know the increases in carbon dioxide are caused primarily by human activities because carbon produced by burning fossil fuels has a different ratio of heavy-to-light carbon atoms, so it leaves a distinct “fingerprint” that instruments can measure. A relative decline in the amount of heavy carbon-13 isotopes in the atmosphere points to fossil fuel sources

 

[Bikeman315]

From the other side of the pond.

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