On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 02:50:30 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

Of course Jaguar now is what's left of what was left after the British
Leyland attempt at a socialized automobile industry

Jaguar and Land Rover were spared the sheer horror that was BL. On
paper they might have been, but on the shop floor they avoided nearly
all of the disaster. If the "socialized automobile industry"
experiment was a failure, it was at the BL / Rover plants where it
failed most spectacularly, not at Jaguar.

All three suffered union troubles, from very stupid and pig-headed
people running the unions. Perhaps Jaguar suffered the worst in this
respect - they were always great cars, but some years of production
made more lemons than a Greek citrus grove.

At times, Jaguar had problems - but they were never the unfathomable
pit of bad design, pointless products and totally rubbish apologies
for cars that went out wearing Austin and Morris badges.

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Smert' spamionam