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Ford retains KPMG to have a look at Jag's and Rover's books {Autoblog}
Jun 26th 2007 3:39PM Jaguar has been operating autonomously for all these years since ford bought it.
I often find it amusing and aggravating when idiots like brackie (post number 1) virulently blame ford for squandering jaguar.
Jaguar had all the resources of Ford at its disposal. Money, engineering, technology, everything.
Jaguar failed because of its often lack of focus and effort. In fact, jaguar's quality which rivaled yugo and fiat perhaps even worse, went dramatically up after being acquired by Ford. How did that happen?
Because jaguar gained access to Ford's engineering and manufacturing. There would be no jaguar had Ford not bought it.
Instead of being grateful to Ford, we hear this utter nonsense, total damn rubbish that Ford ruined Jaguar.
Another idiocy is that Jaguar ruined itself by going downmarket with X-type. The truth is, BMW, porsche, bentley, Benz, all are just as blue-blooded or higher than jaguar and they all went downmarket.
Bmw with 3-series, benz with C-class, porsche with boxster and cayman, bentley with continental-gt. They were all sucessful.
The question is why Jaguar failed.
Ford is always made the scapegoat because thats's the easy way. So there is no need to work hard and attempt to solve the problem. Just blame Ford and everything will be explained.
The real reason why Jaguar failed is the lack of work ethics. No discipline, no capacity to innovate, and an inclination to receive largesse from Ford, and defraud the customer by duping them into badly engineered, badly designed product.
This receipt of ill-gotten money is what is haunting jaguar. Sadly, Jaguar and Land rover are irrelevant in today's world. The days of style but no substance are gone. And so must Jaguar and Land rover.
Porsche proposes to Volkswagen {Autoblog}
Apr 30th 2007 10:17PM There are several behind this aquisition attempt:
The EU-carbon targets will put porsche out of business and the only way to combat that is to aquire volkswagen which makes fuel-efficient diesels.
Second, porsche feels and rightly so, that lamborghini, bugatti and bentley are expensive and gas-guzzling distractions which need to be kicked-away like a destructive heroine-addiction to keep vw focused and for its future survival.
I feel volkswagen should be just
VW, Audi, porsche and skoda. bentley, lamborghini, bugatti, seat, all turds should be dumped.
Toyota's F1-san calls it quits {Autoblog}
Apr 28th 2007 6:04PM To the Bufoon #1
germany has more talent and engineering skills than this turd called britain can ever hope for.
7 out of 10 teams are there because it is the headquarters of political intrigue and corrupt leadership which twists the rules to suit the england based teams.
Ferrari has attacked this fraud many times, but unless germany comes out of its wwii inferiority complex and behaves confidently and assertively, it is not a surprise that turd-ol-england will continue calling the shots.
Toyota's decision to base its F1 team in germany is the right one.
But its decision to stay in F1 run by fraudsters from england is a wrong one.
Unless F1 headquaters are moved from england to mainland europe or china, germany and italy will never be able to realize their true potential.
Toyota's expansion taking its toll on employees {Autoblog}
Apr 23rd 2007 8:49PM Toyota's sweat shops have conquered the american landscape and the Japanese are not going to stop till the american-manufacturing is in their hands.
GM and chrysler should merge and fend of this challenge for another 5 years.
Ferrari 599 goes up in flames {Autoblog}
Apr 23rd 2007 8:42PM perfect example of italian engineering. F***ing Italians Ain't Trustworthy (FIAT).
If they cannot get a 300,000$ car right, how will they sell any alfas is beyond everyone. That is why americans love their corvette and vipers.
White Fang: Novitec's 656-hp F430 Evoluzione {Autoblog}
Apr 19th 2007 6:05PM AT least they changed the huge ugly nostrils in the front to something better. Front now looks much better than a F430. The way it used to be in 360 modena.
Shanghai Motor Show: Audi reveals the Cross Coupe Quattro {Autoblog}
Apr 19th 2007 5:52PM Some hate comments above against Audi is part for a hidden agenda.
Anyone with an eye for beauty will instantly recognize that this is a great design and Audi should build it. If reliability is good, this model will be very successful. The design is much better looking than RDX or Infiniti EX.
Great handling, great mileage, great design, great reliability. Audi already has one of these, now the other three should follow. My best wishes to Audi and I am sure I will buy one if its Made in Germany.
Porsche's Panamera production push spurs €150 million Leipzig investment {Autoblog}
Apr 14th 2007 4:00PM Porsche is inching towards mainstream but not yet mass-market. Its US market share is till
0.25% or less. That is not mainstream by any stretch. Addition of panamera will raise the share to 0.3% or approximately 50,000 units, still an ounce in a bucket.
Maserati wants the 8C to reintroduce America to Alfa Romeo {Autoblog}
Apr 14th 2007 3:53PM This turd will not sell. Even the normal steel-aluminum version will not cut it.
The styling is clearly hideous. Media propoganda has mesmerized the bloggers, and all this praise is not going to translate into sales.
Alfa's best year was 1987-88 when they sold 8200 cars. I doubt whether they will cross the 10,000 mark even after 2010.
Ford earns poor marks on own internal report card {Autoblog}
Mar 15th 2007 9:29PM mark Fields should be fired. He is weakening Ford day by day.
What never ceases to amaze me is how stupid Ford's leadership has been. When the company is not doing well you indentify those areas which are in a mess and sort them out rather than selling those assets which are healthy and strong.
So completely has Ford gone insane that instead of getting rid of jaguar and land rover and killing useless mercury and lincoln, Ford sold off aston-martin, which is making profit, has a healthy line-up and bright future.
