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Truth or fiction? Ford may be getting ready to sell off Land Rover and Jaguar

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makes you wonder how that would affect the parts business which seems still to be struggling?.

Buy a new Pinzgauer and you could be pleasantly surprised with the engine option of the brand new Land Rover V8 diesel instead of the 2.5 l 4cyl unit I have to hope they also supply a parachute to slow the buggers down once the forces take delivery.

Derek

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Derek
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Bet the Russkies get it; after all their auto industry was akin to LR .... agricultural and all the bits rattled and fell off.

Unfortunately not enough people appreciate the real LR product and it seems all is geared toward the fad SUV market. What LR needs is an agressive marketing dept, a goverment that supports local industry and the will to push good products.

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Hirsty's

Land Rover, the company is dead, however real Land Rovers are not dead.

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Larry

Nope they are being built in Spain and unless Land Rover do something impressive the Santana seems likely to take over from the Defender. I've been spotting them in increasing numbers in the North all tricked out in company colours for the likes of Forestry and Electicity companies to me that spells out fleet purchases surely LR can't afford to let that happen if they want to maintain credibilty. Derek

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Derek

Perhaps someone at Ford has seen the reports of =A31800/year road tax for= =20 "gas guzzling 4x4's" in the UK and decided that will kill off LR. Better =

to sell it now before they have to close it down.

--=20 Regards

Steve G

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SteveG

LR's ok - it's Jaguar thats in trouble. Basically, should they be sold, it's buy Land Rover, get Juguar free.

Richard

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beamendsltd

A very likely scenario - one I've moaning about for ages (yeh, yeh I know, ad nauseum infact!). LR need to keep their to their roots (i.e. Defender) for just such an eventuality. Produce Chelsea Tractors by all means, but have a good solid Plan B ready.

Richard

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beamendsltd

From the financial pages I've seen it seems more likely that F*rd are absolutely desperate to get rid of Jaguar and because no-one is daft enough to take it on they will have to offer a sweetener to go with it. Land-Rover is profitable and isn't (yet) so tightly integrated into the rest of FoMoCo that it wouldn't be viable if detached: in a sense, it's the only thing Ford have that they could bundle with Jaguar in the hope that some poor mutt^W^W other company will sup from the poisoned chalice.

Wonder if this is why GAZ are interested: they have a commercial vehicles/off-road background, and getting the L-R badge and dealer network could be very useful for them. Jag, I suspect, would be jettisoned without much delay.

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Andrew Robert Breen

I doubt that many people paying £60K for a pose-mobile will worry about the tax hike, all the tax hike would mean is that the vehicles get scrapped much earlier in their lives than they otherwise would, making them even more of a waste of resources. Roll on environmental short-sightendness!

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Ian Rawlings

Not quite sure I follow the logic - tax is payable from day one, so why would it encourage earlier scrapping? (More expensive MOT I could understand)

Stuart

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Srtgray

When the original owners move on to the next trinket after a year or two, they will sell it for whatever the market value is. You then have to add the huge tax hike to the cost, so after a few owners it's not going to be worth buying due to the whacking great big tax belt, so it'll go to the scrappy.

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Ian Rawlings

Aah, thanks!

Stuart

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Srtgray

Well if I had to pay something like 90% of the price I paid originally each year just to retain it on the road, you can see why I might want to scrap my oldie. Actually I would be far more likely to go illegal in that eventuality, the cost benefit analysis is more in my favour, crazy world isn't it. False plates or none at all :)

None at all and no chassis/engine number, that would screw them up. I doubt I have a chassis number anywhere on it any longer anyhow.

And of course I could always dress up as Rebecca when driving

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Larry

I doubt even the most vote-hungry politician would make any huge hike retrospective, so far they've all applied to only new vehicles. This allows them to look tough without really affecting anyone other than the wealthy, who already bankroll much of their daft schemes so you'd think they'd be nice to them.

If Rebecca is a human then you'd probably be OK, if she's your pet goat then you might draw unwelcome attention.

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Ian Rawlings

Well lets hope so else I shall have to get that long promised Scammell Explorer and see them try and carry that off to the crusher. I'd crush them first.

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Larry

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