BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?

Subject: BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?
From: Greg B
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 06:53 PM

If they thought it ironic that an American company, Ford,
acquired and produced the Land Rover and Jaguar marques,
how much moreso is it that Ford now proposes to sell
both of them to Tata, an Indian company.

Holy Imperial Irony Batten-man!

Subject: RE: BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 06:54 PM

Get used to it...it's not going to uncommon at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?
From: Greg B
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 08:20 PM

Then again, when you see a beautiful woman get out of
an XJ8, you'll be able to say to here "Nice Tata"...

Subject: RE: BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?
From: folk1e
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 08:42 PM

I see America has been knocked of the top slot for production ...... by China!
We all live in interesting times!

Subject: RE: BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?
From: Greg B
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 09:21 PM

Jag just doesn't seem to have much of a market in the US. The
German machines (BMW, MB, AUDI) just dominate that end of the
market, together with the rice burners like Acura, Lexus, and
Infinity. You don't see many, so maybe they're going the way
of FIAT, MG, and Triumph.

I came reasonably close to an X-Type, even knowing it was a
Ford Sierra. But they didn't have a wagon as of yet, so ended
up with an AUDI. That was in the X-Type's first year.

Subject: RE: BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?
From: Gurney
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 04:14 AM

That sub-continent already produces one old British car and one old British motorbike.

You can buy Indian Enfields in Britain, I believe.

They produce them, but if reports are accurate, they don't develop them, so they are much as they were in the 50s.

Subject: RE: BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?
From: The PA
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 05:55 AM

Tata were in partnership in the 80/90's with Rover making the 'City' Rover. That was made in India and imported into the UK.
There are lots of production plants in India producing other makes and models, this is not as new as some may think.

Cant help remembering what the Chinese did to Longbridge......

Subject: RE: BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 07:02 AM

More here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_industry_in_India

Subject: RE: BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 08:15 AM

I would expect the real Landrovers (90 and 110) to do very well in India, the point being that they should be simple and field maintainable, but they will have to be better than the Mahindras which although rubbished by the press over here were a functional simple offroader of considerable capability.

Subject: RE: BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?
From: Grab
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 09:49 AM

My wife's got a City Rover. For all that it was designed in India, it's definitely a Rover - OK to drive, but cheap plastic interior filled with squeaks and rattles. In other words, Traditional British Build Quality, as standard in British industry for the last 50 years. Shit materials, badly designed, assembled by factory workers who either don't know or don't care how to do their jobs properly.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Land Rover and Jaguar to India?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 11:54 AM

Rover P4, P5, P5B, and P6 were all lovely.