Who’s Who In Land Rover, Jaguar Bidding
UK’s Autocar.co.uk posted a new article to their website about the potential buyers for Ford’s Jaguar and Land Rover divisions. It’s an insightful list, covering a wide range of groups interested in taking over the premium brands. Companies featured include Indian giants such as The Tata Group and Mahindra & Mahindra, Italy’s Fiat Group, Russia’s GAZ, and private equity concerns such as Texas Pacific Group, Jac Nasser’s One Equity Partners, Cerberus, and Tom Stallkamp’s Ripplewood Holdings.
Autocar posits One Equity Partners and Cerberus as being top contenders, with India’s Tata Group as a potential long shot. A surprising void: there isn’t one British group that has emerged as a bidder.
Who should buy Land Rover and Jaguar? Let us know what you think.
Comments
Jack Sprat
Well, from that unexciting list of bottom feeders looking to pimp their portfolio, I'd have to select Nasser's band of hooligans. They're the best on the list at least and Nasser always would have done better at Ford if all he ever had to do was the PAG portion. He was wrong for the cheap seats at Ford. Where's Wolfgang Reitzle and big money when you need them?
wally
Cerberus should buy PAG Group merge with Chrysler, use Jags "Daimler" name call new company DaimlerChrysler!!
Ducati Major
wally, I love it!
Andrew
As with Aston Martin, please let it be someone who loves the legendary brands and treats them with the respect they deserve. I second Jack Sprat's choice of Nasser and Reitzle and hope they would give Ian Callum and his brilliant group free rein to continue designing cars like the heart-breakingly beautiful C-XF - the best looking car in the world!
Love 'wally's' piece. Absolutely hilarious.
Stuart Beveridge ( ex Austin Motor Co )
There is only really one genuine and realistic bidder for Jaguar & Co if it to have a future!
That is the very successful and very much forward looking JCB Group! See their current annual report - its great reading! Let the Bamfords get behind the wheel at Jaguar to get the Cat poised for a great future!
Give them your support and spread the news! Jaguar should not go to asset strippers!
john vincent
Richard Branson didn't know anything about jets or telephones but seemed to do fairly well.
Get somebody who understands the damn mystique of Jaguar and Britain.
It ain't a Ford.
Robert Phelps
My First Jaguar (Pronounced Jag-u-R) was a Lesney D-type. Still in the fleet, but showing some rugburns. An "E" followed just as high school was ending. Still in the fleet. Xj's of the S, 6 and 12 arrived and some still soldier on. Current and most loved S-type is the Driver De Jour. I've earned the right.
I followed Tullius, TWR and Gentilozzi's Motorsports efforts with pride and passion. I covered Jaguar's XKR last real Daytona 24 Victory in 2002 when an overall win was a reality before the current rules package seems all too much like Nascar. Trans Am is gone and the poorly reasoned F1 foray couldn't have gone worse.
Small Footnote-Rocketsports XKR's Lap times in '02 are still close to Grand Am Prototypes now.
The DNA of All Sir William's Work is missing in the XF-C, the S-type replacement. Ian is talented no doubt but 10 years on The Cars I dream about will all have been built before 2007. This is a truly sad note for a well-loved and respected Marque.
My Take is JCB or just kill it. Ford violated the agreement to always produce cars in Coventry and The Museum there will soon have more treasures than ever will be built again in England.
Robert Phelps
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