Richard Madeley – journalist and broadcaster – is writing for Cars UK as a guest car reviewer in the first of an occasional series of ‘Stars Test Cars’. It’s always interesting to read car reviews – well, it is for us – and equally interesting to see how people judge the car they’re driving. We tend to […]
Jaguar Land Rover – The Real Future
Jaguar Land Rover are investing £800 million in new technology to create a range of world beating Jaguars and Land Rovers. Yesterday we reported on two bits of news from JLR. First up was confirmation of our story from last month that the Range Rover LRX will debut in 2010 and go on sale in […]
Jaguar Land Rover factory closure
Tata – owners of Jaguar Land Rover – has announced they will close either the Solihull or Castle Bromwich production plants. Update 25/9/09: We’ve taken a second – more in-depth – look at JLR’s future. It’s actually much more positive than this story suggests. First comes the good news – the new Range Rover LRX […]
New Jaguar XJ Frankfurt reveal
Jaguar has launched the new XJ to a Europen audience at the Frankfurt Motor Show. I know, the new Jaguar XJ launched back in July at the Saatchi Gallery. And it was on display at Salon Prive later the same month. We even did an in-depth review of the new XJ. But our European cousins […]
Lotus Range Extender Engine – fit for Jag
Lotus has developed a 1.2 litre 47bhp Range Extender Engine that will show at Frankfurt and be trialled in a Jaguar XJ. Lotus have been innovators – and innovators on a budget at that – ever since Colin Chapman took them to the top of the road car and track car tree in the seventies. […]
New Jaguar XJ – Update
Latest news on the progress of the new Jaguar XJ. The XJ will be with dealers in December and the first new XJ owners will get their keys in January. Update: 11/9/09: Jaguar are now working on the XJ ‘Limo-Green’, a hybrid XJ featuring Lotus’ Range Extender Engine. July was all about the launch of […]
Jaguar XE – more detail
It’s been clear ever since Tata took over Jaguar that they have ambitious plans. Yes – in common with every other car maker in the world – they have big financial issues. But Jaguar has now acquired private funding for the business, so things are starting to look up. And they deserve it. If you […]
Jaguar Land Rover sorts its finance
Jaguar Land Rover owners Tata have been waiting for Lord Many and his minions to stump up a loan guarantee to help the company move forward all year. But there seem to have been some pretty big obstacles in the way. Initially the Government wanted to impose a board member on JLR – which Tata […]
Jaguar XKR Convertible by Arden
When we did our Jaguar XFR Review recently we came away believing that the XFR has the measure of its German competitors, including the might BMW M5. So it would be fair to assume that the XKR equally holds its own against rivals. And in our opinion, it does. But there are criticisms from some […]
New Jaguar XJ illegal in the USA
A slightly disingenuous statement, to be fair. But it got your attention! It would be horrifying for Jaguar to discover that they’d built a glorious car like the new Jaguar XJ, only to find they’d dropped a huge clanger by making it an illegal road car in the US. It’s not that bad, but Ian […]