Tata to Close Jaguar or Land Rover Factory in UK by 2014

That's misinformed. All sectors are down and it doesn't help Jaguar they only operates at the top end of the market. In spite of that, the XF is currently accounting for about 30% of esecutive car sales in the UK. That is one hell of a slice, especially when you compare it to what the S-Type achieved before it. JLR isn't doing so bad in current times. And it isn't yet supplying the XJ, nor is the LRX with the market. Both will bring big boosts to the companies fortunes. I miss the old XJ, but times had to change, because you and I were in the minority it would seem.

" Real Jaguar buyers (not auto press aficionados) have voted with their wallets. Sad." -abramo I thought the new modern looking XF was a sales success for Jaguar. What they need now is a decent BMW 3-series competitor.

So, let us all drive all-identical little nasty mass produced Toyotas, Hyundais, Nissans, Mitsubishis and what have you's, bland and lacking any character and enjoy the ride (blah). Character is a european art, and can be eco-friendly too -- gas guzzling is mostly an American trait and a completely different story. However, there is no doubt that Jaguar have messed it up in more way than one - design, technology, environmental sensibility, economics - and thus has arrived the time of reckoning.

No. I was trying to say that let us drive modern and cultivated European cars.

Unlikely. Since MG became "Chinese" and relaunched the MG TF in the UK, even with finally assembly at Longbridge they have sold only a few tens. Hardly anyone bought Malaysian built TVRs. Proton realised that moving Lotus production to Malaysia would kill the brand. No doubt Tata will be watching to see just how far you can push the "Britishness" of a product by producing it in what is, with respect, a third world country for the main part. If India grows like China is doing then there could be some sense in a local facility to serve the growing rich, but you'd never get Europeans or Americans buying Indian built Jags. I think everyone knows that. So while there is a demand in the West, they'll be making them somewhere in the UK.

"Definitely not going to India :/ " It is possibly this attitude that is partially responsible for crippling the British economy. The great times of the British nation were when Britishers did opt to go to India . . .

way to go captain obvious!