Jaguar Land Rover to 'axe up to 5,000 jobs'

[Yorkie62]

JLR hasn't been part of Ford since 2008

EDIT: although I note that TATA also has a blue oval logo, so maybe you're not an idiot.

But the x-type (and Landrover Freelander) still uses the Ford Mondeo platform and engines (which according to a JLR exec are British although they are built in the USA

S-Type uses the Ford DEW platform as used by the Lincoln LS and Thunderbird

Jaguar D8 steel platform is a heavily modified evolution of the Ford EUCD platform, a platform inherited when Land Rover was a subsidiary of Ford. It is used for the Jaguar E-Pace, Land Rover Discovery Sport and Range Rover Evoque (L538).[

[Eirikur]

And all Brexidiots who said brexit will be good for our car industry now come with all the same excuses
You won get over it and queue up for the Job centres

[Old Greg]

And all Brexidiots who said brexit will be good for our car industry now come with all the same excuses
You won get over it and queue up for the Job centres

You forget that the UK holds most of the cards.

[LondonManc]

And all Brexidiots who said brexit will be good for our car industry now come with all the same excuses
You won get over it and queue up for the Job centres

It's the Indian company that's tanking. If it brings TCS down with them, it's not that bad after all. Pollution of a once great car company and pollution of the consulting market sorted.

[AtW]

Yeah fook big British company that employs tens of thousands British workers - much easier to buy Audi under WTO rulez

[darmstadt]

You forget that the UK holds most of the cards.

I've been looking high and low for these cards so I can use them when I go into a contract negotiation but I don't think they'll work in the real world...

[Mordac]

Highlighted the real reason for you. Jags just aren't Jags anymore, they are just expensive rebodied Mondeos. The Big Blue Oval has taken Jaguar in the wrong direction and away from the out and out luxury market for which it was known. But hey-ho Brexit is just too convenient a tag for senior management to hide their incompetence behind just now.

Ford sold Jag-LR in 2008. Although I agree with your last sentence entirely - Brexit will be the default excuse for everything from now until the end of time.

[Mordac]

Analysts say carmaker will outline job cuts in new year as part of drive to combat Brexit and falling sales

Jaguar Land Rover to 'axe up to 5,000 jobs' | Business | The Guardian

Let them drive BMW...

Just to be very clear here, Brexit isn't the reason for shutting down UK production, globalisation is the reason. It wouldn't have happened quite so easily if we weren't in the EU (or indeed if the EU didn't exist). The EU enables (and indeed encourages) companies to shift production to low-wage economies - I'll resist the temptation to rage about my 3 year old Bosch washing machine which has just been read the last rites (it turns out it was made in Romania, contrary to the German-built Bosch model it replaced, which lasted 11 years).
There may be many advantages to EU membership, but the direction of travel is depressing (in almost every sense), and the destination is even worse.

[original PM]

Just to be very clear here, Brexit isn't the reason for shutting down UK production, globalisation is the reason. It wouldn't have happened quite so easily if we weren't in the EU (or indeed if the EU didn't exist). The EU enables (and indeed encourages) companies to shift production to low-wage economies - I'll resist the temptation to rage about my 3 year old Bosch washing machine which has just been read the last rites (it turns out it was made in Romania, contrary to the German-built Bosch model it replaced, which lasted 11 years).
There may be many advantages to EU membership, but the direction of travel is depressing (in almost every sense), and the destination is even worse.

But but

cheaper mochachocochino's because them Eastern Europeans will work for less.

Oh wait that's the destination you were talking about.

Shame some of the other's on here do not get it.

[BlasterBates]

Just to be very clear here, Brexit isn't the reason for shutting down UK production, globalisation is the reason. It wouldn't have happened quite so easily if we weren't in the EU (or indeed if the EU didn't exist). The EU enables (and indeed encourages) companies to shift production to low-wage economies - I'll resist the temptation to rage about my 3 year old Bosch washing machine which has just been read the last rites (it turns out it was made in Romania, contrary to the German-built Bosch model it replaced, which lasted 11 years).
There may be many advantages to EU membership, but the direction of travel is depressing (in almost every sense), and the destination is even worse.

Car manufacturing has doubled in the UK since 2009.

In 2009 the UK manufactured 1 million cars in 2017 it manufactured 2 million cars, more cars than the Uk manufactured in 1972.

Where do you get your information from ?