Matt32AMG
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- Joined
- Mar 30, 2007
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- Dorset UK
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- June 2002 SLK32///AMG. OCT 2007 CLK350 AMG Sport Convertible.
India's Tata Motors looks set to sign the long-awaited deal to buy Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford. So what's the consensus regarding these cars, specifically their future development, and, it has to be said, quality and image.
Worryingly if the business model remains true of Tata, they can turn what was a bad car into a truly horrible car if the City Rover is anything to go by. As things stand UK jobs are safe in the short term, but I suspect this will be an evaluation process by Tata to see where corners can be cut, labour costs driven down, and then transfer the entire manufacturing process to India. The result being a car that visually looks similar by name alone.
Anyone here feel the Government should’ve stepped in and bought the cars back off of Ford, (instead of the mega bucks for bailing out Northern Rock), thereby investing tax payers money into a tangible product, while kick starting a “British” car manufacturing industry, (there’s a novelty), secure jobs, and have something in this country we could be proud of again?
Thank god we kinda nearly kept Aston Martin, but only because there was someone out there with vision, (David Richards and his Kuwait's Investment Dar and Adeem Investment financing consortium).
How unlike it is for this this non-visionary, corrupt government to drop the ball again....errr NOT
These Charlie's get in again, I'm definatley leaving the country.
Worryingly if the business model remains true of Tata, they can turn what was a bad car into a truly horrible car if the City Rover is anything to go by. As things stand UK jobs are safe in the short term, but I suspect this will be an evaluation process by Tata to see where corners can be cut, labour costs driven down, and then transfer the entire manufacturing process to India. The result being a car that visually looks similar by name alone.
Anyone here feel the Government should’ve stepped in and bought the cars back off of Ford, (instead of the mega bucks for bailing out Northern Rock), thereby investing tax payers money into a tangible product, while kick starting a “British” car manufacturing industry, (there’s a novelty), secure jobs, and have something in this country we could be proud of again?
Thank god we kinda nearly kept Aston Martin, but only because there was someone out there with vision, (David Richards and his Kuwait's Investment Dar and Adeem Investment financing consortium).
How unlike it is for this this non-visionary, corrupt government to drop the ball again....errr NOT
These Charlie's get in again, I'm definatley leaving the country.