Building the Leg End. The Old Jag thread.

Asimo · Post by **Asimo** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:27 am

Pace is easy for EV makers. They don’t seem to even try for space. None of them have a clue about grace. Not a single fucking clue.

treehugger · Post by **treehugger** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:29 am

I was briefly behind something with an MG badge yesterday. More or less a Suv.

mercrocker · Post by **mercrocker** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:43 am

What has basically occurred is a raping of British automotive core values to re-package and re-sell to a generation of car-users (I hesitate to call them drivers) who will have no fucking idea what the remainder of us are on about. We decided a generation ago not to be an industrial nation any longer and with that decision went most of our manufacturing ability.

LynehamHerc · Post by **LynehamHerc** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:01 am

treehugger wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:29 am I was briefly behind something with an MG badge yesterday. More or less a Suv.

That unfortunately is what sells nowadays.
They do have an electric sports car, expected to cost about 50k, which is not too far adrift of previous MG sports car costs when adjusted for inflation I understand.

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https://www.mg.co.uk/new-cars/mg-cyberster

SiC · Post by **SiC** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:03 pm

mercrocker wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:43 am Maggie and her cronies decided a generation ago not to be an industrial nation any longer and with that decision went most of our manufacturing ability.

FTFY

Post by **Hooli** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:06 pm

SiC wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:03 pm
mercrocker wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:43 am Maggie and her cronies decided a generation ago not to be an industrial nation any longer and with that decision went most of our manufacturing ability.
FTFY

Bollocks. The unions decided to try and bring the government down and lost.

SiC · Post by **SiC** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:24 pm

Hooli wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:06 pm
SiC wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:03 pm
mercrocker wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:43 am Maggie and her cronies decided a generation ago not to be an industrial nation any longer and with that decision went most of our manufacturing ability.
FTFY
Bollocks. The unions decided to try and bring the government down and lost.

There was far more manufacturing going on than automotive too. Huge amounts of that has been sold out to companies based abroad. From computing to nuclear sector to aerospace.

LynehamHerc · Post by **LynehamHerc** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:30 pm

You can blame asset strippers like Lord Hanson and Gordon White for a lot of that and also City 'short termism', being driven by quarterly reporting.
GEC, subsequently Marconi, is a casebook example.

Obviously there's a lot more to it, Sterling being a petrocurrency for a period screwing up BL US exports for example.

The Reverend Bluejeans · Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:46 pm

Warren t claim wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:37 pm
mercrocker wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:32 pm As what? Not as a British car manufacturer and not with one shred of DNA left.
What does Jaguar stand for in the minds of the buying public?

It doesn’t. Jaguar’s glory days are too long ago.

Post by **paulplom** » Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:44 pm

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/A5LsgzmKXa5KCDNT/

Quality vehicles. How the fuck do they get away with producing this total dogshit?

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