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Jaguar launch

I don't think they will sell many cars in Germany and parts of Eastern Europe if they stick with the "00" designation, which is the accepted sign for a public toilet!!

David Marles ● 22d14 Comments

Yes Nicholas, temperature can really affect range. I moderate one of the busiest motoring forums on the internet and real world range can reduce by 40% once the temperature drops into low single figures. If you are a tall concerned by range anxiety then  self-charging hybrids is the way to go for the moment

N V Brooks ● 21d

I agree, reliability is important, very important. As for the new Jag  it is electric and needs constant charging, £100000.00  a lot of money. I was looking at a town car at £17000. The range, real world 140 miles. On the ad was a range calculator. I filled it first question what speed are you planning, 50mph  the temperature which I put as 8c, lastly would I have the heater on? Yes. Range for this 80 miles.

Nicholas Beard ● 21d

Mansell, you.may be interested in this from October 2023.Andrew Woolliscroft, client care director for Jaguar Land Rover, admitted that the huge transformations the brand will be undergoing will be a ‘challenge’ – and said they won’t be a success unless it fixes its reliability issues.‘We cannot deliver on our modern luxury strategy without quality products and quality services,’ he told Car Dealer.‘It just won’t work – so there is an immense amount of pressure.’Jaguar Land Rover models are notoriously unreliable and its car dealerships are often incredibly busy with warranty work.The firm’s cars also regularly top unreliability surveys. In September, the What Car? Reliability Survey found the Discovery (2017-present) to be the most unreliable car in the UKHe said he believes reliability issues ‘have improved’, explaining that since 2020 warranty repairs for the car maker’s latest models have ‘reduced by a third’. But he admitted there were still improvements to be made.Woolliscroft said: ‘I feel like I can’t really talk about the ownership space without talking about quality – and there’s a huge amount to do in this space.‘We haven’t maybe been as robust as we would have wanted to be in procuring our parts – I’m not saying we pushed stuff through too quickly, but naturally, if you’re focused just on volume, it will have consequences.‘Our previous strategy was very much volume driven. Reimagined isn’t about volume, while it’s immensely important, it’s more about quality – quality of experience, quality product, quality profit over volume, and that has allowed an absolute refocus.’ ‘It is getting better,’ he said. ‘There’s loads of other proof points when you look to China and JD Power we are second and ahead of BMW and Mercedes. I know it’s not a UK survey, but a good indicator that the quality is now starting to be received by our clients.Jaguar Land Rover is hoping customer service interactions in future with dealers will be more pleasant experiences and not just about fulfilling a need.Woolliscroft said its dealers will play a big part in this and will help when it comes to identifying faults quickly so they can be resolved faster.‘Those are things that are maybe really obvious. But they’re things that haven’t been there but are now.’The JLR director admitted, though, that its car dealership workshops were ‘still full’.

N V Brooks ● 21d

Calm down Mansell you are out of your depth. Land Rover finished a miserable 28th  out of 32 car makes in the UK reliability surveys. They are unmitigated pieces of crap plagued with electrical and software faults. I wouldn't have one as a gift. Do post again when you know what you're talking about.

N V Brooks ● 21d

When the e-type was launched I was a young man who could have used the undoubted s.a. of the model to attract the ladies who I saw in the Kings Road and elsewhere.  Unfortunately practicality meant my first "car " was a mini-van, which didn't quite do that job, but was a classic of its time in its own way.    Cost £350 new!  No Purchase tax!I doubt the appeal of the new jaguar will be in the same league as the e-type, or the old (1950s on) XK models.  An XK120 won Le Mans in 1951

James Roy ● 21d

They may appeal to urban sophisticates, but as reliable all-terrain vehicles they're a disaster. To think we used to lead the world in this area. In 1965 I drove to Greece in a 1948 LandRover. In Greece it developed a serious main bearing oilseal leak. I nursed it back to Blighty and spent more money on oil than on petrol. After replacement of the seal it gave no more problems, and after it was sold I saw it running around years later. The modern Defender is a wimp by comparison.

Robert Fish ● 21d

The current Defender is a total POS. Overly complex toy for the rich rather than the wonderful utilitarian vehicle is was originally designed to be. Only good now for driving through the Grove Park enclave in full revs to annoy the local veloviles.

N V Brooks ● 21d

You are confused Brooks. Land Rover do still build go anywhere 4x4s and are absolutely flying. This is a reboot for the Jaguar arm whose annual sales have fallen by two thirds, partly due to the lack of range, partly due to the boring neither this nor that designs. This one, love or loathe is not boring. No tartan blankets. No box of tissues on the back shelf.

Tony Mansell ● 21d

Tata have greatly improved the dodgy reliability of Jaguar since taking over from Ford, but the reliability of RangeRovers seems to have gone from bad to worse. Even the historically ultra-rugged LandRover is now regarded as unreliable.

Robert Fish ● 21d

Jaguar Land Rover used to build stylish sports cars comfortable saloons and go anywhere 4x4 vehicles. They now build no saloons, no sports cars and go nowhere four by four vehicles which are among the most unreliable vehicles on UK roads. Get the products you sell now correct before launching £100,000s 18 and a half foot long monstrosity.

N V Brooks ● 21d

That is a radical rethink ! The dinosaurs weren't buying Jags any more so they've gone for broke. I think they would say job  done when they hear the red chord brigade squeal.To quote Henry Ford, if you ask people what they want they would say faster horses.

Tony Mansell ● 21d

Meow!

peter king ● 22d

If it is anything like the 18 foot long concept abortion with a launch price projected north of £100,000 they won't sell anywhere. What an absolute disaster and Jaguar won't be around much longer without a radical rethink .

N V Brooks ● 22d

Perhaps they got a job lot when QPR replaced their scoreboard

Francis Rowe ● 22d

With the introduction of their new EV range Audi are scrapping their old four rings logo. I had assumed that Jaguar has just picked up a job lot of Audi "Os".

Sam Hearn ● 22d