Tata purchase Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford
What is the world coming to, Tata have taken ownership of two more British icons, Jaguar and Land Rover. The last time Tata entered the UK motoring market was with Rover and that awful City car. To show the current standard of Tata's cars they have just released the worlds cheapest car,the Tata Nano. Naming it after an Ipod will not make this car cool in any shape or form and its not exactly in the same league as the Jag or Range Rover....
The way forward for both of these marques will be interesting and I hope Tata have done a deal with Ford to continue to supply parts for most of the current models. Items such as the defender engine is from a transit and the latest Jags are re-incarnated Aston Martins
(Dave Walker will hate me for saying that)
But all I have to say is it would have been nice for the UK to retain some part of its historical car industry, at least Tata will have a good supply of steel as they also own Corus ( ex British steel)
Posted at 02:37PM Mar 28, 2008 by Simon Bullen in land rover | Comments[4]
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Cheers for thinking of me :-).
OK, so Jag poached Ian Callum from Aston - and it must be said, the new XK and the XF show that he's still got what it takes, design-wise. In fact, it's amazing that something as commodious as the XF looks as good as it does.
Nonetheless, show me a current Jag with a 6 litre normally-aspirated V12 where it counts, and I'll buy a hat and eat it :-).
Posted by Dave Walker on March 28, 2008 at 02:53 PM GMT #
Tata legally purchased the British icons because there was no British buyer. The Kohinoor Diamond, an Indian icon was stollen illegally from India by the British when they were here. So the world is just fine ...
Posted by Kohinoor on March 28, 2008 at 04:03 PM GMT #
You'll also find the TATA logo on the packaging of your Tetley teabags...
Posted by Malcolm Murphy on March 28, 2008 at 05:33 PM GMT #
The release of the Tata Nano was very timely. With a sagging economy, massive layoffs, and the housing/credit markets bust. Most people in the US and UK can probably only afford this car at ~ $2.5K
Posted by 192.18.122.73 on March 28, 2008 at 07:45 PM GMT #