JLR axes design boss Gerry McGovern

[Centurion]

Huge loss if true! Geely or China should snap him up so that they can get 1st rate JLR designs without having to copy.

JLR axes design boss Gerry McGovern | Autocar

Sources tell Autocar and Autocar India that the Coventry-born designer was asked to leave the firm on Monday

www.autocar.co.uk

 

[SKY]

Huge loss if true! Geely or China should snap him up so that they can get 1st rate JLR designs without having to copy.

JLR axes design boss Gerry McGovern | Autocar

Sources tell Autocar and Autocar India that the Coventry-born designer was asked to leave the firm on Monday

www.autocar.co.uk

China is doing good. If there is a brand in need of a better design chief is none other than MB.

 

[tristatez28lt1]

Huge loss if true! Geely or China should snap him up so that they can get 1st rate JLR designs without having to copy.

JLR axes design boss Gerry McGovern | Autocar

Sources tell Autocar and Autocar India that the Coventry-born designer was asked to leave the firm on Monday

www.autocar.co.uk

arrogant, conceited, know it all - great for the brand they finally threw him out. The people that worked for him did all the work while he gave speeches.

 

[Design FIRST]

arrogant, conceited, know it all - great for the brand they finally threw him out. The people that worked for him did all the work while he gave speeches.

McGovern heading to Audi AG to join Massimo Fraschella ? They have a history of constructive professional relationships at JLR as well as FoMoCo.

 

[Centurion]

China is doing good. If there is a brand in need of a better design chief is none other than MB.

Could Mercedes handle him? I don't think Gary could accept anything less than a clean slate and creative freedom.

 

[SKY]

Could Mercedes handle him? I don't think Gary could accept anything less than a clean slate and creative freedom.

Well, sounds EXACTLY like what MB needs, lol.

 

[Esp5]

"Escorted out of the office" after 21 years there, the seriousness of what happened will hardly be known

 

[Swissbob]

I guess it’s because he f***ed up Jaguar.

 

[klier]

arrogant, conceited, know it all

Well...... he was British after all.

I guess it’s because he f***ed up Jaguar.

Honestly design was Jaguar's last problem..... And a brand doesn't falter with design as that's subjective. If everything else works great, people will still buy. Example: BMW.

 

[Merc1]

We will likely never know exactly what happened, unless he spills it.

M

 

[martinbo]

as well as FoMoCo

Heh heh heh

"Fear of Missing out Company"

 

[Design FIRST]

Strategically placed PR following Mr. McGovern having been shown the exit door ?

THIS time, JLR is being clever with its product promotion.

IMHO, we can anticipate something that is genuinely exciting.

 

[SCOTT27]

We will likely never know exactly what happened, unless he spills it.

M

E-mail that said Sydney Sweeney Nudes? Click! Virus takes down the entire company?

 

[Merc1]

This new Jaguar is going to be a smoking hot design either way.

M

 

[Design FIRST]

Never mind the naysayers with the gloom and doom prophecies of spectacular commercial failure. It is not the point in the isolated context of design. And here...

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...it is remarkable how this vehicle makes much everything else appear so...unremarkable.

It takes major cajones in order to accurately translate this into a serial production vehicle. And that, as such, is highly commendable.

 

[klier]

It takes major cajones in order to accurately translate this into a serial production vehicle. And that, as such, is highly commendable.

The production car is a very far cry from this concept. Only thing left similar are the long hood proportions.

 

[Design FIRST]

The production car is a very far cry from this concept. Only thing left similar are the long hood proportions.

I believe that these are the most recent images of pre-serial production prototypes:

 

[Centurion]

The production car is a very far cry from this concept. Only thing left similar are the long hood proportions.

The concept looks like an unfinished clay model. I think the production car will vi ually dazzle and delight but the infotainment will be slow as constipated fog poo.

 

[klier]

I believe that these are the most recent images of pre-serial production prototypes:

Not bad at all to be honest, but we'll see how it turns out. I agree with @Centurion on the concept part.

 

[SCOTT27]

It will be a refined concept. Details in context will be similar. Will be interesting on launch to see the spokesperson discuss design now that the director has been directed into the streets.