News from the Car Company Formally Known As Jaguar:
Jaguar is set to embark on a daring strategy move as part of its transition to becoming an exclusive EV brand; the company says it won’t sell a single car for a whole year.
The British marque has pledged to become a ‘luxury all-electric brand’ from 2025, but to do so it says it will need to take a 12-month hiatus from the market.
Its last remaining combustion-engine model on sale will be the F-Pace SUV, which is due to bow out early next year.
Wouldn’t have any of their existing cars as a gift, because with the possible exception of the F-type, they’re as ugly as Hillary Clinton’s knickers. (Sorry.)
Anyway, I’d rather get an older Jag, any day of the week, e.g. this fully-restored 1956 XK140:
…which will cost you about the same as a new F-type. Wait… 3.4-liter straight six, capable of 140mph, with a stick shift. Try and get the same thrill as that with a Duracell microwave-on-wheels.
As for the opening paragraph of this post: they may call themselves Jaguar, but they aren’t.
That XK140? Be still, my beating heart! Hopefully I’ll be seeing many of that ilk at the Goodwood Revival.
Have they sold a car in the last year? I’m in the UK and not seen a new one for years and have no idea where there sales office is anymore.
Hey, let’s go all-in on a saturated market with limited demand for an unproven technology. What’s more we won’t have any fall-back plan.
What could go wrong?
It’s Jaguar. ‘Nuff said.
In twenty years, Jaguar will be The Case Study taught in school on How To Kill A Successful Brand.
Will the engine be made by Lucas, The Prince of Darkness?
This could be rich!
Oh, no. It will be worse. Imagine an all electric vehicle with *wiring* by Lucas.
So the liberals vision for the future is adult sized power wheels driven instead of vehicles that run on dead dinosaurs, all charged up by an electric grid that can’t even handle a hot summer day of too many air conditioners or an ice storm that has more than an inch of accumulation.
The electric plug that delivers the power to the vehicle when charging, where does that power come from? Other batteries? Nope. Coal, wood, nuclear, or dead dinosaurs.
As the saying goes “You can’t fix stupid”
As a side note – If I could pick up a cheap electric car for under 20,000 new (I would not buy one used, who knows the condition of the battery), MAYBE as a spare vehicle. Even then, I much prefer gas.
The least expensive EV I have seen is 40,000. And the trucks and SUV EV’s are 80,000 to 150,000 thousand. You can buy a small cabin or a half of a house for that, instead of a disposable vehicle.
All my super-scientific fancy batteries in my other electronics don’t last a month without running down. Even the (Expletive that would make a sailor blush removed ). For it to be an effective second vehicle, it has to be able to sit for two weeks or a month and STILL start. Maybe with a bit of cursing, praying and application of the choke, but it starts before the Diehard actually dies.
Lol, even the… guessing dildo? That serves a purpose at least and is probably useful.
There’s probably a liberal alternative to that thing too, but don’t ask or give the liberals any ideas.
Electric vehicles are not time tested nor proven.
They are also not green.
A beat up old Toyota starts up and runs like a champ most often than not.
Can anyone say that of battery powered shit? You do have a good point.
Would 007 Mr. Bond drive an electric vehicle? Maybe the new WOKE version would but I doubt Sean Connery or Roger Moore would be caught in one of these EV Heaps of shit.
Another question, say a liberal shithole city, that has said they will switch their service vehicle fleets, like somewhere in Commie Fornia, or New illegal immigrant York, were to have massive power outage, how would the vehicles be charged during the power outage as the outage drags on?
It seems in this scenario, one would have to pour gas into a generator, and then use the generator for a while on the EV.
Me, i’ll stick to pouring dead liqified dinosaurs into my vehicle’s fuel tank.
Relax, they won’t make you pour liquified dead dinosaurs into your gas tank, they’ll make you use one of those lifeboat generators used in WW2 that the Naval Aviators dubbed Mae West because of the shape necessitated by how the generator was held while working the handles to make electricity.