http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/ Autoblog Comments for Two bidders left for Jag and Land Rover, and unions support India's Tata http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/Nov 25th 2007 4:36PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/
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No vehicle in the Land Rover line uses a Ford platform. The V6 powered LR3/Disco 3 and the turbo diesel in the Defender are based on Ford engines but all the other engines are designed and developed by Jag/LR.

The First Freelander started off back in the late 80s early 90s well before the escape existed and well before Ford bought Land Rover. It was a POS cobbled together from bits of several other vehicles and when BMW bought Rover in 1994 they didn't bother to inject any extra technology into it. It was launched in 1996 and while was very popular in europe it never did well in the US when it was launched in 2001. ]]>Nov 26th 2007 7:55AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/
We may see Jaguar and LR leave the US but I doubt they will go under.
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Seriously you people are clueless. The US is Land Rover's biggest market now and has been for a couple of years. The UK is now Land Rover's second largest market. North America is also Jag's largest market. Both companies have higher percent growth in other less mature auto markets but that is true of most international brands.

Land Rover is in very good shape. Jag is the one that is hurting and if the XF is not a huge hit, I know people who have driven it they say it is AMAZING, then Jag will be done. ]]>Nov 26th 2007 7:58AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/too early to speculate anything. I would like to see Nasser win the bid.
I think the concerns for the US re: Tata are somewhat justified. Not sure that Tata has the experience to maintain the quality (cant believe I'm saying that with Jaguar, just how far did Ford take them anyway) of a quality marquee.
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http://busexplorer.com/WorldBus/Images/MidSize/WBX-tata-1313_tiger-UAE_a_030514.jpg

It'll be hard to see this in the same light as a Range Rover. But, if they say they can do it, then i guess we'll see]]>Nov 26th 2007 10:18AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/Tata might be OK, but not for 2 British legends.
If Tata and Hillary Clinton win, I am going to shave my balls hair.]]>Nov 26th 2007 1:46PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/25/two-bidders-left-for-jag-and-land-rover-and-unions-support-indi/Nov 29th 2007 7:08PM