Teach me Jaguar and Land Rover...

Doing research for my folks...

They are looking to buy new, just trying to get a consensus on them seeing that I've never had any experience with them...

Someone is going to say Jaguars are not reliable so I am going to post this. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/19/jaguar-buick-reliability-_n_176755.html

I have no helpful info, but a friend that works in a Jag/Land Rover warranty shop firmly believes they are the worst engineered and assembled vehicles currently avaliable.....and he was a VW tech for 8 years.

ditchdigger wrote: I have no helpful info, but a friend that works in a Jag/Land Rover warranty shop firmly believes they are the worst engineered and assembled vehicles currently avaliable.....and he was a VW tech for 8 years.

I disagree. Like any make they have their pitfalls, but they are much better than they used to be. After 2 months at Mercedes (and a year at VW many years ago) I can say that the German makes have MANY more problems but take care of the customer MUCH better than Rover ever did.

This second experience is NOT timely, but here goes:

My mother's uncle loved cars. We owned several different German cars (well, 1 Isetta, and the rest Mercedes) as well as trying to own every hot Italian car that he could in the '60s and '70s. When he died, he was driving a Buick. (Not driving at the time he died.) All the finicky, foreign cars were given up for a sensible car.

If your folks truely believe a Jaguar is as reliable as a Buick....they should save themselves time and trouble and buy the Buick.

They are, no matter where they are built, British cars. Take from this what you will.

Let their near vertical depreciation be your guide. I still lust after a jag convertible.

I love my Land Rover. Prior post search revealing my Rover history may indicate I am an idiot, but I do dig the Rover.

This makes a Rover worth it all

You're talking two totally different animals. One is a famous Brit sports car and the other is a Brit SUV with a Buick/Olds engine. Both are totally cool but in different ways.

My Triumph TR8 is a sort of hybrid of these two concepts. LOL!!

Just remember that there will always be an England. British cars have character.

While they may be owned by the same company, may be sold by the same dealers, and may share engines, they have little else in common. Jaguar turned around their quality years ago and are at the top of the JD Power lists, regardless of what stereotypes still exist on this board and elsewhere. Land Rovers, on the other hand, are solidly at the bottom of the JD Power quality/dependability lists.

As Timeormoney said, take advantage of their horrible depreciation (though Jaguar's depreciation has been drastically turning around too). Pick up a one or two year old Jag with the extended warranty and enjoy an extra 2 years on the warrany. You also get a bunch of ridiculous perks like two-for-one tickets on British Airways and some other stuff I can't remember now.

Bob

I like Jags and some LR's but wouldn't have the guts or wallet to own one! My friends dad owns a Jaguar and it's always in the shop.

MrJoshua wrote: I love my Land Rover. Prior post search revealing my Rover history may indicate I am an idiot, but I do dig the Rover.

+1. Yup, it maynot be the best choice for anything, but I'm just crazy enough that my 99 DiscoII checks all the right boxes in my head.

Here it is on a TSD rally off road in the pine barrens of NJ, and all of those lights came in handy when the rally was mostly after dark.

And here you can barely see the disco towing our Lemons Civic

And here it is towing our BABE rally Saab from MA back to PA, 360 miles, no complaining