Tata is new owner of Jaguar!!
25 March 2008, 10:55 PM
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Tata is new owner of Jaguar!!
Tata is India's biggest vehicle maker and now owns Jaguar!!
Will we see a Tata XJS on every Street Corner?
Will we see a Tata XJS on every Street Corner?
25 March 2008, 11:04 PM
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Gets my goat: German Sate railways has bought the freight arm of the ex-British rail.
THEN: Tata Steal buys Corus Steel, now Tata buys Jaguar.
These guys are supposed to be third world, FFS
How TF can they afford to buy the UK out??????????????
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THEN: Tata Steal buys Corus Steel, now Tata buys Jaguar.
These guys are supposed to be third world, FFS
How TF can they afford to buy the UK out??????????????
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25 March 2008, 11:08 PM
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Seriously, though, we live in a global economy. India has pockets of immense wealth and is the world's most populous country - no real surprise they're buying up both quality assets and sh1te like Jaguar. Perhaps the next jaguar will look less like an American tank than the thing they've just launched.
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25 March 2008, 11:15 PM
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They make the worlds cheapest car - £1300!!
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25 March 2008, 11:45 PM
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Bit slow picking up on this Pete.
Good luck to them. Jaguar have problems. One reason being they've shut out part of their market through blind ignorance:
I quite fancy an XF v8....but unlike BMW counterparts, it has no manual option. And I hate automatics - no matter how advanced. (with exception of diesel autos and off-roaders) Therfore will never buy one.
How can they sway buyers from BMW if they don't give the options?
Good luck to them. Jaguar have problems. One reason being they've shut out part of their market through blind ignorance:
I quite fancy an XF v8....but unlike BMW counterparts, it has no manual option. And I hate automatics - no matter how advanced. (with exception of diesel autos and off-roaders) Therfore will never buy one.
How can they sway buyers from BMW if they don't give the options?
26 March 2008, 09:23 AM
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It said on the news this morning that Tata werent planning on laying off anyone in the UK until at least 2011 !!! So in 3 years, they'll dump the entire British workforce and move it all to India where they can pay their workers a couple of quid a day and not worry about unions, health and safety etc...
26 March 2008, 10:38 AM
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It said on the news this morning that Tata werent planning on laying off anyone in the UK until at least 2011 !!! So in 3 years, they'll dump the entire British workforce and move it all to India where they can pay their workers a couple of quid a day and not worry about unions, health and safety etc...
Gordon Brown will never allow it to happen
Oh, wait........the factory's not in Scotland or the South East....it doesn't matter then
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26 March 2008, 12:02 PM
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As far as I know, they have recently bought Landrover as well.
I think TATA own pretty much the whole world anyway, its one of those companies you have never really heard of, but have their hand in everything.
I think TATA own pretty much the whole world anyway, its one of those companies you have never really heard of, but have their hand in everything.
26 March 2008, 12:13 PM
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My best guess is new age Buy-to-Letters supported by Daddy and maxxed on finance, and sneers at anyone who walks over the threashold of a Topman or River Island store.
Certainly a minority
26 March 2008, 12:23 PM
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It said on the news this morning that Tata werent planning on laying off anyone in the UK until at least 2011 !!! So in 3 years, they'll dump the entire British workforce and move it all to India where they can pay their workers a couple of quid a day and not worry about unions, health and safety etc...
Interior quality will suffer the most in years to come. IMHO.
Like you say, no job cuts untill 2011. Why pay a British worker £500 a week, when a Indian worker will work for less than that a year.
Begining of the end if you ask me.
26 March 2008, 12:25 PM
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Could do with binning Mazda too IMO
Barring the MX5 and RX8 they don't make anything that Ford don't already have as competing products in the US, UK and EU (Mondeo vs Madza 6, Focus vs Mazda 3 etc).
Unless they still have some handy powertrain resources still worth keeping?
Although it comes to something that Ford uses Volvo's 5pot engine....bearing in mind, it wasn't very long ago that Volvo were buying in engines from Renault
Barring the MX5 and RX8 they don't make anything that Ford don't already have as competing products in the US, UK and EU (Mondeo vs Madza 6, Focus vs Mazda 3 etc).
Unless they still have some handy powertrain resources still worth keeping?
Although it comes to something that Ford uses Volvo's 5pot engine....bearing in mind, it wasn't very long ago that Volvo were buying in engines from Renault
26 March 2008, 02:23 PM
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If a car can survive the harsh landscape of Bombay's gridlocked roads and streets then it can survive anywhere.
What is going on, things people identified as british are being exported/sold off.. I hope we don't end up like the US where everything is imported in and nothing is exported out
What is going on, things people identified as british are being exported/sold off.. I hope we don't end up like the US where everything is imported in and nothing is exported out
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Anyone know what our biggest export is now? apart from expats.
26 March 2008, 04:22 PM
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Actually, looks like we are still ahead of USA and Japan, so not that bad:
Despite having less than one per cent of the world’s population, Britain is one of the largest trading nations in the world. In 2002, Britain had a 4.4 per cent share of the world trade in exports and a 5.3 per cent share of imports. Britain exports more per head than either the United States or Japan. Machinery and transport, manufactured goods and chemicals are Britain’s largest export earners.
Despite having less than one per cent of the world’s population, Britain is one of the largest trading nations in the world. In 2002, Britain had a 4.4 per cent share of the world trade in exports and a 5.3 per cent share of imports. Britain exports more per head than either the United States or Japan. Machinery and transport, manufactured goods and chemicals are Britain’s largest export earners.