Jaguar and Land Rover sold to Tata....

[tidus1203]

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080326/ford_jaguar.html?.v=25

Once the mighty Americans (Ford), now bleeding for cash with their pathetic currency (US Dollar) had to sell their Jaguar and Land Rover brands to India's Tata. The world is changing, the end of the US empire is nearing. The rise of the Eastern powers (China in particular) is here....

[uls]

Sino ngaun boss ng mga employees ng Jaguar and Land Rover?

Yung mga nag-papa-5-6.

hehe

[Horsepower]

Very Bad idea. Sana sa BMW or VW group na lang binenta.

[kiper]

galing na sa BMW ung Land Rover..tapos binenta nila sa FORD.

di rin nila naayos.. sakit lang sa ulo.

di ko lang alam kung ano iniisip ng TATA.

laki na rin kasi ng lugi ng FORD.. kaya nagbebenta na sila.

[coiter]

baka magkaroon na rin ng 200K pesos na brand new jaguar! hehe

so since local na sa india ang jag at land rover, gagawin din kaya itong taxi dun? hehe

in fairness to TATA, as far as i know, it is a credible truck manufacturer. so who knows, most industry analysts say it's a win-win solution for all. Ford gets to get rid of a money losing business, Tata gets to be known worldwide, and Jaguar and Land Rover will receive a much needed capital infusion.

[scharnhorst]

Let's see what happens to ford motor company after this.

volvo nalang ang natitirang european marque nila.

[Syuryuken]

dahan-dahan lang sa mga komento sila may maipagmamalaki na eh tayo walang-wala pabagsak pa nga.

[Negus]

dahan-dahan lang sa mga komento sila may maipagmamalaki na eh tayo walang-wala pabagsak pa nga.

+1. may nuclear program and space program na sila. Ngayon pati Land Rover at Jaguar pag-aari na nila. Sa tingin ko kaya nilang paikutin ng maayos yang luxury brands na yan.

[rufboxster]

What Tata should do is start producing jaguars from now on and sell them cheap like chapatee with their billion population. In that way it will help save the company marque which has been a disaster in the past and at the same time alleviate the million of indians from poverty. Now, u can get a variety of jaguar cars in curry flavor, masala flavour and so on and so forth. Never thought 2 brilliant english marquees will end up in the hands of their former tea boy, pathetic brits.

[shadow]

yuck ! ehdi amoy shawarma na ang mga b-new jaguar and land rover nyan ..
dapat may free heavy duty ionizer/deodorizer .. hihihi

I'm sure your comment won't sit well to our bolywood brothers....

[tidus1203]

Ingat lang sa mga medyo racial comments.... Fact is this, the US giants are losing money (GM, Ford, and Chrysler) and the Asians are buying up their assets....

[s_quilicot]

Sa mga Mods ok lang po if ever burahin yung racial "amoy shawarma comment ko"

guys may update naba sa tata nano? or is it jaguar nano..?

[theveed]

s_quilicot: one more and you're outta here.

[overboost]

Ford is still a part owner of Jaguar and Land Rover because they currently share platforms with other Ford products. Logically thinking, Ford will not just let this car brands loose to an amateur specially if you spent billions in improving the two marques.

[tidus1203]

No Ford sold everything to Tata including all intellectual property rights... Tata can now do whatever it wants with Land Rover and Jaguar marque. While they create the cheapest car in the world, they are also entering the luxury space.... Interesting times for Asian car manufacturers. Now I wouldn't be shock if China buys some other luxury brands in America needing a bail out of cash

[galaxy2012]

I'm not suprised by this TATA bashing comment, I find the "pathetic brits" comment unfair, and let me remind you its business as usual for J-LR but with greater stability in their finance from this day forwad under TATA unlike Ford, TATA are just cash-cows under this situation, meaning J-LR will have all the money they need to invest in new models that Ford no longer have. in fact this company (TATA) is 140 years old, TATA is one hell of a wise company when buying companies, they are just more than just truck/motor manufaturers they are a powerful multinational conglomerate with a market value of more than $70bn and almost 290,000 people in its workforce in over 80 countries. Of course the fact they own UK brand Tetley Tea and Corus Steel, and play the successful role on funding Warwick Manufacturing Group (Warwick University UK) but thats not the end of it they also have strong reputation of partnerships with automotive industries with Fiat Group as well as being an engineering specialist working with Porsche, Volkswagen, Chrysler, Ford along with playing a role in working with Ferrari in Formula 1 racing team (Tata Consultancy Services/I.T technology) as well as running telecommunications and running Taj hotels.

As for this "jaguar cars in curry flavor, masala flavour" and "producing cheap knock-off Jags" argument that's not going to happen it still going to be JAGUAR & LAND ROVER nothing more just J-LR, no brand changes whatsoever, it will not be merged with TATA motors. Ratan Tata (chairman of Tata) claims that they have enormous respect for the two brands and will endeavour to preserve and build on their heritage and competitiveness, keeping their identities intact. Which means they are there to support their growth nothing more! Also they will not rebage their Nano as jaguar or land rover, in simple terms the Nano and the J-LR will NEVER be sold under the same roof and its going to stay that way. There are no plans of shifting the production of J-LR cars to India whatsoever.

People are worried about the J-LR under TATA wings I'm not

[scharnhorst]

I'm not too familiar with the machinations of automotive manufacturing, but does the parent company have a big say in what its other "brands" are doing, or do the underlings get to move independently?

Just a little off topic, how are indian cars comparing to chinese cars, in terms of quality?

A final tidbit: May f1 team na ang india diba?

[tidus1203]

Regarding Indian F1 Team, yes Indian boss but not really a car made in India. That Current Force India team is just the former Spyker team which was the former Jordan team... So no India has no capacity to make their own F1 car yet, malayo pa yun IMO...

[s_quilicot]

I'm sure your comment won't sit well to our bolywood brothers....

ou nga eh . soweeee

[daimengrui]

I don't think Tata will sell cheap Jaguars and LRs. Tata will leverage the intellectual property they gained in their low end line ups. Expect a massive globalization effort from this company in the next 5-10 years.

Look at the transformation Hyundai and even the Kia brands had experienced. Even now the Chinese cars are poised to compete. It's a win win situation if Tata continues the LR and Jaguar engineers to be independent and elicit innovation.

Tata could possibly be India's Toyota motors, so it will be interesting to follow their progress.