Showing posts with label Jaguar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jaguar. Show all posts

Thursday, March 13, 2025

vanity plates cause me to wonder what they mean... and this one? Is sorta odd


We know Jag models start with an X. 
XKR in this case... but CP50?

I looked that up and very strangely, Google returned with "Jaguar guitar distortion pedal". How crazy is that? 

The CP50 is still a mystery, but the similarity to a model number of a guitar distortion pedal is just uncanny... that a CP510 is Jaguar guitar pedal, and this Jag license plate is CP50, whatever the hell that is


So, does anyone have a guess what the hell this plate is supposed to mean to the reader? 






Sunday, January 12, 2025

56 Jag raced in period by Briggs Cunningham and Denise McLuggage is for sale

 This car’s past is in fact so fascinating that it recently enabled it to earn a very coveted spot in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA), where it resided in 2022 alongside other giants of the racing world.

Tuesday, December 03, 2024

here's what the electric car looks like that Jaguar says is going to be the new line of cars after it converts to making electric vehicles only. If that even happens. Not many concept cars get put into production. These will cost double what the current Jaguar does

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/jaguar-type-00-is-the-name-of-the-design-vision-concept-they-copy-nothing-except-243656.html#

This reminds me, I meant to post some excerpts of the reaction articles that happened in the past 2 weeks:


Picture the champagne corks popping as the socials are timed to post the video at the appointed hour. “I hope the pre-order guys are ready for an onslaught – because we’ve got eight capital-D diverse models in category-five tulle busting out of a pink-planet lift wielding a hammer – and precisely NO cars! Let’s make some sales history!”

As far as I can make out, the best this ad’s defenders can come up with is that “the internet is talking about it”

But the one thing we can be absolutely sure of is: not a single one of those defenders will be buying a single one of these cars.

There is something ludicrous about a guy poised to roll out cars that are going to start at a hundred grand boasting about being mega-inclusive. 


“More importantly, the campaign appears disconnected from the very traits Jaguar spent decades building. Gone are the understated elegance, performance nods, and any clear connection to British heritage…For a car company to launch a rebrand video without a single reference to its cars—its core product—is simply mind-boggling,”

“Unfortunately, it appears Jaguar went too far in its attempt to be bold. The rebrand has created a crisis because they have successfully denounced what the brand has become known for and respected. This challenge is hard for humans because its a ‘redefining’ moment where they have thrown out the preexisting ‘meaning’ assigned to the perception of the automaker and then told the same audience a new ‘meaning’ that lacks substance and appears to be progress for the sake of progress,” he noted.

Tata-owned JLR might have had record sales in the most recent financial year and sold over 400,000 cars. But almost all the profit came from the Land Rover side of the business. The Jaguar CEO Adrian Mardell reportedly told investors that the Jaguar models were generating “close to zero profitability”. Rather than wait to see the inevitable losses as Jaguar’s tired brand declines further, JLR has decided to shake things up and take the business firmly upmarket. Jaguar reportedly expects 85 per cent of future sales to be from customers completely new to the brand.

Amanda Stretton, a racing driver and motoring journalist, said that the size of the new car appeared to be "absolute nonsense". "It needs to be shrunk by about 50% to be practical."

Friday, November 22, 2024

The Austin Power '67Jag is coming to auction





This is the “Shaguar” that was used in all three of the Austin Powers films, memorably driven by Mike Myers and featuring in several key scenes throughout the trilogy.

Though it's a 67... I think it goes without saying that they would have cracked a lot more jokes about it if it were a '69

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Jaguar has unveiled its new brand identity, marking the beginning of its EV-only era. And it's likely the stupidest thing I've seen all year. They don't even show, or mention what the hell the poses are supposed to sell




So, if in the upcoming days you hear about investors abandoning Jag, the stock plummeting, and the whole damn company shutting down after a faceplant heard around the world, you'll know why

Thanks George! 




Jaguar has officially revealed a complete overhaul of its branding identity, signaling the start of its transition to an all-electric lineup. The British automaker introduced a bold new logo in anticipation of the highly awaited Jaguar Design Vision Concept, set to debut on December 3.

This concept car will give a glimpse into a future luxury electric sedan slated for production in 2025, as part of the brand’s ambitious plan to redefine itself in the luxury electric vehicle market.

Managing Director Rawdon Glover referred to the rebranding as a “complete reset,” acknowledging the boldness required to transform the brand. To complement the unveiling of the new design language, Jaguar will host a series of gallery exhibitions in Miami, showcasing works from emerging artists who embody the brand’s ethos of originality and innovation.



Glover said, and I quote "We assume that 10-15% of our current Jaguar customers will follow us, so relatively few."


Bev Turner, a British television host on the conservative-leaning GB News channel, said the ad looked like Jaguar asked artificial intelligence to create the “wokest, most pretentious, gender-ambiguous piece of self-satisfied A-level art.”

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

FDR jr in the Jag, at the grand premier showing of the E Type at Jack Sheppard's imports of Tampa



Curtis LeMay coordinated the Berlin Airlift. He served as commander of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) from 1948 to 1957, and was Chief of Staff of the Air Force

In 1953, Jack decided to start a new venture and opened Import Motors on the second floor of his 10-lane bowling alley, that had previously housed a garage and gas station before Jack bought the building in 1936, and sold Jaguar, Porsche, Lotus, Austin Healey, MG, VW, Sunbeam, Hillman, Triumph, Saab, and Rolls Royce


A year later, he moved the dealership downstairs and began adding just about every European car make he could get his hands on. The building  so it was already set up, in a way, to handle cars.




Jack Sheppard's son Joe was called The Tampa Hotshoe, after returning from a tour of duty in Korea at age 30, he raced against Fangio, Hill, Moss, Cunningham - in Nassau, and even in Cuba. He passed away in October 2019 at the age of 91 with a '67 MGB/GT in the garage.