Its an ugly duckling & may be an engineering marvel,but to me it certainly is'nt a Jaguar anymore,except of course for the name that identifies it.

It is a beautiful car and a credit to the marque. Who owns the company whether an individual or pension-fund is of little importance. Who runs it and how well is critical. The damage to the marque in the 1970's has taken years to repair. The illusion that everything British is best has lead to the loss of our car manufacturing, ship building, steel, textiles and garment (to name a few) industries in less than a century. When we take our heads from the sand and recognise the competition, we are quite capable of competing globally. The same objectivity will give credit to a Jaguar worthy of the marque.

So AOL UK are reviewing a car that won't even be seen in the UK???!!! What's the point?

Any body else think it's ugly? That front grill is clearly aimed at the american market and it's a Mazda 6 at the back.

The sad fact is that Jagualr were a marque standard for British Engineering at one point. Sought the world over as a quality sports car for the driving enthusiat. However toward the end of the 80\'s its Directors lost the plot and forgot whjat the company stood for. They had their heads stick in the 60\'s and belived that their cars were only for the rich and famous. They did very little to progress with the times refused to listen to the general public who were crying out for a modern Jaguar to set driving statndards again. Instead their directors continued to keep their heads in the couds and the company could no longer survive. In come Ford who bought the company from the directors who walked away with a very tidy sum in their posckets. Now Ford had vision, although initialy they injected just a little too much of their mass product principle for the good of the company. A course of action that almost brought Jaguar to its knees. But then they re thought and allowed traditional Jaguar Engineers to express themselves in a way they had been prevented from doing since the days of the E-Type. Now Jaguar as a company is once again what it used to be, bust sadley no longer British !. Only the late 20th Century aristocratic British Jaguar executives can be blamed for that loss !.

Don't like Indian cars. Anything by Honda or Toyota will still be going in 10 years and hold its value.
These pretend Jags plummet in value and are impractical once second hand. Also where could you park that thing in a UK city where it wouldn't get a key run down it?

Having had 3 X-js I cannot understand why this model is not to go on sale here. Ther last 3 winters have seen my x-js diffificult to get up the slope out of my drive and me borrowing my son's front wheel drive 206.Got to put this on sale here!

No one should buy Jaguar its no longer British.

Hmmm...remember a few years ago there was a Jag which looked uncannily like a Rover in disguise? (What, getting rid of old body panels they inherited when Rover packed up? Perish the thort!) Well I get a sense of deja-vu when I look at this one. Perhaps that's why they're keeping sales to the US of A, they're less likely to know what proper Jags look like. Sorry but this one won't be on my list for when I win the Lottery.

"However, it's nice to see a success story for British car manufacturing elsewhere around the globe and there's a slim chance one day we'll see the technology on British models."
Jaguar/Land Rover are owned by Tata, an Indian company in India to whom we have donated millions in aid over the years. One of a whole army of manufacturing and service companies bought by foreigners. Even our National Lottery is foreign owned. Betrayal by betrayal by our governments over the years have left this country with no indiginous manufacturing companies. Even Rolls-Royce is owned by BMW.