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ggkg · 18th July 2007, 18:10

There was once a beautiful lady that approached Bernard Shaw and told him if we get married and produce a child, it will have my beauty and your intelligence - GBS replied 'what if it has my beauty and your intelligence?!'

IMHO Tata is overreaching itself. The result will be erosion of Jaguar brand value as every buyer will know or suspect parts have been sourced cheap from Indica-producing factories. Europe/UK has not forgotten the CityRover story.

Tata has enough partnerships with Fiat and others to learn what it needs to learn - products of global quality and reasonable prices.

In any case as far selling Jaguarish cars in terms of quality/features in India goes, let us first see what comes out of the Daewoo truck takeover that happened years ago. As long as we neo-rich yuppies keep buying crappy underfeatured cars at inflated prices, not only Tata, no one has incentive to introduce higher specs at reasonable prices.

18th July 2007, 18:10	#19 (permalink)
ggkg BHPian Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bangalore Posts: 112	There was once a beautiful lady that approached Bernard Shaw and told him if we get married and produce a child, it will have my beauty and your intelligence - GBS replied 'what if it has my beauty and your intelligence?!' IMHO Tata is overreaching itself. The result will be erosion of Jaguar brand value as every buyer will know or suspect parts have been sourced cheap from Indica-producing factories. Europe/UK has not forgotten the CityRover story. Tata has enough partnerships with Fiat and others to learn what it needs to learn - products of global quality and reasonable prices. In any case as far selling Jaguarish cars in terms of quality/features in India goes, let us first see what comes out of the Daewoo truck takeover that happened years ago. As long as we neo-rich yuppies keep buying crappy underfeatured cars at inflated prices, not only Tata, no one has incentive to introduce higher specs at reasonable prices. Last edited by ggkg : 18th July 2007 at 18:16.