Tata Rejects Jaguar SUV
Car Today reports that in an interview with German Motoring publication Auto Telegraaf, Ratan Tata stated that the company will likely not be adding an SUV to the line-up of its newly-acquired luxury brand. Given that a Jaguar SUV would be in direct competition to Land Rover, and that global sales of SUVs are tanking, this makes sense. Not much news in this at all really.
Jaguar Motorcycle
The Design Blog has a report (with lots of pictures) of this outrageous Jaguar motorcycle, featuring a 1200cc Buell 97 S3 Thunderbolt engine. The designer is Lee J. Rowlan, and the price for this one-off bike is just a tad over $500,000.
Jaguar : Paris, 2008
Car Magazine reports on Jaguar’s stand at the Paris motor show featuring an XK120, sadly without a picture:
Rather than celebrating the new, Jaguar celebrated the very old in Paris this year - but it was still one of the most stylish cars on display.
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Jaguar has a simply glazed ‘box’ at the back of its stand, with glossy black walls, and inside stands a beautiful, equally glossy black XK120.
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But the car is just allowed to speak for itself in Paris - no ‘happy birthday’ signs, no special ‘60 years’ logo - it just looks incredibly chic, elegant, understated, and cool.
New Jaguar North America President
Jaguar Land Rover announced on September 24th that Gary Temple would serve as the next North American President of Jaguar Land Rover. Temple is a 25-year veteran of the company, and was formerly the Senior Executive Vice President of operations for North America.
Hibernation Over
I’ve been away from the Blog for a few weeks, but now I’m back. My absence was mostly the result of a cold that turned into a nasty bacterial infection that has attacked my ears, sinuses, throat and chest and left me in no fit state to do much of anything. I don’t recommend it.
The next few entries will be catch-up, and may be old news as I post them now.