Here it goes again



Struggling JLR 'set to be sold imminently', leaked documents reveal
A spokesman for PSA - owner of Peugeot, Citroen and Vauxhall - told the Press Association that the firm was in "no hurry"

Read in Birmingham Live: https://apple.news/AY9pa-9BqRUmsbS9ExIR12A


Shared from Apple News Filters are in fact so good that in certain circumstances, when the ambient air is already polluted, a diesel car will tend to extract more particles from the air than it emits. Emissions Analytics worked with........etc etc

He who dies with the most toys wins...

Couldn't be any worse than what BMW did...

This rumour is about as reliable as an AutoExpress scoop!

It could possibly be true, but there’s nothing here that looks anything other than a busy fictional story department, on an otherwise quiet news day. I hope that their quest to sell a few more chip wrappers doesn’t result in too many lost sales for those who are actually trying to earn an honest crust at JLR...

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/1...er-wheels/

(Paywalled link)

“..leaked “post integration documents”... from undisclosed sources”.

It still sounds just like a story from AE and their “factory insiders”

And as for the second paragraph here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/1...er-wheels/ it’s the same old bar room smart a**e comments that I’d not expect to see in a, semi respectable, paper like the Telegraph

Awful click bait journalism. Read Ross Clark’s other drivel headlines:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/ross-clark/

Bluurrgh.

Here's the OP's original link sans the Apple news wrap: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midl...=truncated

And thanks for the post Bill

Still not a single named source within the company.

stu1 wrote:

Couldn't be any worse than what BMW did...

IMHO it was BMW that transformed Range Rover by splitting it out from the Rover group & then developing the L322 so there's plenty of potential to do worse.....

To back Alistair's point I think the work BMW did with Rolls Royce was far more bespoke and befitting of the brand than what VW did with Bentley so whilst I have owned few BMW's in my time I have enormous respect for what they can do - the engine in a McLaren F1 for example is from BMW.... PSA is a clever firm too but underestimating BMW is not a good idea imho. 2016 (L405) Autobiography in Black with Ivory - for ULEZ
2014 (L405) VSE in Black with Ivory
2011 (L322) VSE in Black with Ivory
2005 (3.2 V6) Porsche Cayenne in Black with Savanna
1999 (P38) VSE in Burgundy (?) with Sand

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I don’t suppose this carries much weight to counter the gossip, but let’s give it a go:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.indepen...html%3famp

“Tata denied the report, stating: “As a matter of policy we do not comment on media speculation, but we can confirm there is no truth to these rumours.” ”

aren't the 2.2 and 3 ltr. diesel engines in Tata's Jaguars made by Peugeot? Think so...

No, they aren’t. The 2.2 hasn’t been fitted for several years, but none of these engines were built by Peugeot. Before the 2.0 and now the straight 6 were built at Wolverhampton, all petrol engines (since Ford owned LR) have been coming from Ford in Bridgend and all diesels from Ford in Dagenham or Chihuahua.

Let me put it this way then, most moving engine parts will fit the xf and the peugeot diesel, here in France they advertise these parts as fiting...etc. The 2.2 was available until 2017 here. (Old stock?) I know, been looking for the xf station/ break for my wife and the dog, she did not like it.

That because the engine design was a joint project between Ford and Peugeot Citroen, with each making their own versions of the engine. Many parts may be interchangeable but Peugeot Citroen don’t build engines for Ford (or those people, such as JLR, that Ford have/had supply contracts with) and vice versa