It is a funny old world for JLR.

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Originally Posted by carjunkieanon

They worked pretty hard to stick it out in Vietnam. Lost, but didn't exactly surrender.
Less well known than the British evacuation of Dunkirk are the French that held the German Army back so the Brits could evacuate.

Two interesting videos on the French.

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All to no avail it seemed. Thousands of French then decided they wanted to be retrurned back to La belle France & bugger the risk that the Brits had run getting them out of Dunkirque in their hours of need "to fight another day".

Maybe the Brits didn't make as good a Croissant as they were led to believe & said "**** this for a game of Soldiers".

Back on topic, I can see a lot of similarities between PSA and JLR, so maybe a marriage could work. They certainly wold have some of the world's best diesel engines.
The English would hate it though, particularly those obsessed with Brexit.

And what do you think Tata would have to say about it all? It is not up to JLR as to who they merge with!

Is anyone here really serious ? I mean JLR has been in bed with Japanese, Germans, Americans and Indians. To suggest that being associated with French is a end of the world is laughable. What’s always been wrong with JLR is Reliability. They forget that cars are always on sold so if it’s got a reputation for being unreliable and costly to maintain then that hits desirability. Add to that the leaps and bounds of “ cheaper” products in both performance and capability it’s makes it real hard to justify buying on brand name alone. JLR used to sell to people who needed a product not those that wanted to flaunt a products name. Many years of owning both newish and older JLR products overwhelmingly comment is “ what crap British engineering/QA/QC ” they are. Nice but I wouldn’t want hassle. Until JLR fix that no matter who owns them - Long term I can’t see a future.

JLR will die if they don’t get their reliability better.

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Originally Posted by Meccles

Is anyone here really serious ? I mean JLR has been in bed with Japanese, Germans, Americans and Indians. To suggest that being associated with French is a end of the world is laughable. What’s always been wrong with JLR is Reliability. They forget that cars are always on sold so if it’s got a reputation for being unreliable and costly to maintain then that hits desirability. Add to that the leaps and bounds of “ cheaper” products in both performance and capability it’s makes it real hard to justify buying on brand name alone. JLR used to sell to people who needed a product not those that wanted to flaunt a products name. Many years of owning both newish and older JLR products overwhelmingly comment is “ what crap British engineering/QA/QC ” they are. Nice but I wouldn’t want hassle. Until JLR fix that no matter who owns them - Long term I can’t see a future.

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Isn't the 2.7TD a PSA motor?

Tata have denied any plan to sell JLR.

Tata denies it is trying to sell Jaguar Land Rover to France's PSA | Business | The Guardian

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Originally Posted by Disco-tastic

Isn't the 2.7TD a PSA motor?

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The 2.7 is a Ford Duratorq motor also found in the Aus Ford "Territory", but seems to have been used in Jaguars, Citroens & Peugeots.

2011 Ford Territory's Diesel Heart Revealed

My understanding of this motor is that it's a Ford-PSA collaboration, but built by Ford.
More PSA cars use the engine than do Ford cars.