Funny Pictures Thread
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alexSchmurtz
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Any thoughts on whether Jaguar will exist in a couple years?
Thanks for asking.
Some years ago there was a successful chain of jewellery stores in the UK called H.Samuel. The CEO was a feller called Gerald Ratner who, at a shareholder meeting made a light hearted joke about how everything they sold was cheap rubbish. Unfortunately for him his joke made the headlines the next day, literally destroyed the company over night.
Yesterday definitely felt like a Ratner moment.
They have insulted a large part of the customer base by saying you are not wanted while appealing to a younger audience, many of whom can't afford a mortgage.
They are going all out with luxury EV's at a time when the sale of luxury EV's, here in Europe at least, are dropping off a cliff.
As for the car... ok, it's a concept, but the exterior is awful. "This is the result of brave, unconstrained creative thinking, and unwavering determination." to quote the blurb.
The front is generic Chinese EV, the rear is an air conditioning unit and side on it is a rip of the Rolls Royce Spectre as drawn by a 9 year old with a geometry set.
The curves of the MKII were penned by the then chairman, Sir William Lyons, a man with no formal training as a draughtsman. I bet that right now he is spinning in his grave at about 3,000rpm. And can you imagine Ferrari just binning it's heritage? Madness.
Jag's Castle Bromwich plant is a big employer here in Birmingham so I do sincerely wish them all the best but...
Fun fact: There's a test somewhere on Youtube, where they let an E-Class and this old Smart drive into each other, slightly off-set.
The real Mercedes slightly moves to the side, comes to a stop and has some slight damage. The driver-dummy has some damage to its left knee.
The smart flips and looks pretty totalled, but the dummies have zero damage.
These smarts are basically bouncing race cars with a really impressive frame. You will flip around and think you'd die, but if you don't flip into something bad, you'll get out pretty healthy
alexSchmurtz
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