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Newswheel staff :: 21 March 2006 :: Filed under Estate/Wagon, Saloon, Jaguar, Jaguar X-Type, Europe & UK, US
Flagging sales. A chintzy product line up. A near-destitute sugar daddy in the form of Ford Motor Company. And the indefinite postponement of the platform technology that might just have turned things around. Things are not looking too clever for the rather pitiful pussy that is Jaguar Cars. So, you’ll forgive us for not getting overly juiced up by news that Jag is considering replacing the X-Type with an alternative-concept, shooting brake-style model. At a fundamental level, we’re not convinced the brand is a goer under Ford ownership…
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Newswheel staff :: 07 March 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Saloon, Jaguar, Jaguar S-Type, Jaguar X-Type, Jaguar XK8, Europe & UK, US
Yup, you really have to get all the ingredients just right to succeed with a premium Euro car brand. The failure of the current S-Type and XJ models, both good cars with fatal weaknesses – think dodgy styling and platform heritage for the former, mismatched cutting edge technology and antediliuvian aesthetics for the latter – is a case in point. Nothing less than full commitment will do. So, what to make of Ford’s decision to shelve plans for a unified aluminium platform? Well, folks, it ain’t good.
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Newswheel staff :: 02 February 2006 :: Filed under Saloon, Jaguar, Jaguar X-Type, Europe & UK, US
Chintzy exterior styling, a naff interior and a hand-me-down Mondeo platform with front-wheel drive chassis dynamics. Quite a lot for the Jaguar X-Type to be getting on with. And hardly a recipe for domination in the painfully competitive exec saloon market. A replacement for the current X-Type was originally pencilled in for 2007. But it’s looking increasing likely that Jaguar will pull out of the sector altogether. And now there’s news that Jaguar will cease selling the X-Type in North America at the end of the year.
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Newswheel staff :: 10 May 2005 :: Filed under Saloon, Jaguar, Jaguar X-Type, Europe & UK, US
Jaguar recently announced that X-Type production was being reduced once again. Now we hear the baby Jag’s replacement has been cancelled.
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Newswheel staff :: 25 April 2005 :: Filed under Four wheel drive, Saloon, Jaguar, Jaguar X-Type, Europe & UK, US
It’s not a terribly shocking development, but Jag has announced that poor sales have forced a cut in X-Type production.
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