The nonsense never ends. In the US in its FIRST full month on sale, The F type sold more than the BMW Z4, MB SLK and Cayman. It sold 6 less units than the Boxster for a total of 417.
Kras by name, crass by nature I guess.
Look, you do realise 'sales' means just about anything? I presume you're a car industry-knowledgeable person and not just another JLR PR-parroting troll. If so, you will and ought to know 'sales', as reported by convention in the US, are not registrations or end customer purchases, but are in the main 'sales' by the maker to wholesalers, i.e. dealerships in the main.
Thus, these 'sales' you trumpet could and almost certainly are just launch stocks for the US market, liberally sprinkled onto JLR dealer forecourts. And guess what, they bloody well are - see below.
So listen, Kras1, before you start implying others are anti-JLR trolls, as indicated by your 'this nonsense never ends' crack, wind your neck back in, and come back with something factual, rather than 'sales' data, which as any half-interested industry observor knows can be made to tell anything, given the above laid out 'sales' nature of the US new car market.
Please fell free buddy to come back with other stunning retorts to the other facts I have laid out regarding Jaguar's behind the scenes slide into irrelevance and ultimate, within 2 years oblivion, due to zero real new product development since 2007 and a smokescreen of communist like media assisted PR propaganda to cover up the real desperate picture.
Now, things we know about the F-type's 'success':
the 'lightweight', 'sports car' 'heir to the E-type', has been exposed as a cynical, nothing but chopped XK, weighing 2 tons, unable to beat a half-the-price Boxster round the track - thanks to Tiff Needell - and as a result has been hastily repositioned, mid-launch, as a 'Brit Muscle Car'.
we also know, thanks to the wall to wall advertising, on all platforms for it, since months, that it can't be a runaway, able to do without being advertised and promoted, unalloyed success - can it.
we know that thanks to JLR's crazily greedy pricing - aiming it at a 911, but unable to compete with a Boxster - many once prospective buyers have been turned off.
we know that this supposedly successful car needs a 'Halfords special', 'tart it up job' already - usually happening after one year from launch at least - at Goodwood, to try to drum up some interest in the massively overweight, dated, overpriced, potentially dangerous car - bad brakes - see Autocar's test where brakes faded after five or so minutes on track - and extremely nose heavy/rear light and wayward, thus poor handling.
we know that matters are getting desperate at Gaydon Sales & Marketing, because Clarkson has been given many shekels to do a totally OTT, buttock-clenchingly cringeworthy jingoistic half hour advert for the F-type on his BBC brainwashing show, aka Top Gear. This represents JLR's last hope to get the F-type away, with the critically important US market, as Clarkson there, inexpicably, is still seen as a god, rather than a IP-thieving joke - he knocked off Johnny Knoxville's Jackass template for "cocking about" in the early 2000s for the new Top Gear, like his mother, with her similar road-to-riches enabling theft of the IP for Paddington Bear from its creator.
and we now know thanks to the excellent 'Baron95' - see below - who unlike me, amazingly remains a Jaguar fan and XFR owner, even though he seems intelligent - but has seen right through the F-type hype and cynicism of the product itself, and now records that the 'successful' F-type, in its only real market - the US - is effectively already being offered at a 'pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap' discount, through leasing, and yet, in his affluent area - Connecticut - home of the Wall St. banksters - he sees stock piling up on forecourts - the ones recorded by you and JLR above, no doubt, as 'sales'.
that'll do for now, but I'm sure as the summer goes on we'll see more sure-fire signs of your claimed sales 'success' for the F-type, undoubtedly including the huge pent-up demand and backlog of orders for the new Corvette C7.
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'Jaguar F-type Incentive Lease for only $759/month
Wow, I didn't expect this level of incentives so soon, but Jaguar USA has rolled out a lease incentive on a well equipped ($4,000 in options) F-type for only $759/month.
That is quite shocking, and is certain to move cars. Good move by Jaguar to seed the market before summer is over. But
I wonder why they thought they needed to resort to this level of incentives. In comparison, Boxster, 911, Cayman, Stingray, have no special lease incentives running.
Either way, leasing is the only way to go with new Jags, since depreciation is a bitch. At least on a lease, you are not stuck with it.
Details below - hurry to your Jaguar dealer
Lease a 2014 Jaguar F-TYPE Convertible for $759*/mo
340 HP 3.0 Supercharged V6 Jaguar F-TYPE Convertible
42 Month Lease / 10,000 Miles per Year / $0 Security
MSRP: $73,845 / Vin# K01008 / $4,399* Cap Cost Down'
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Wow. I'm shocked to find out that F-types are piling up on dealerships.
I just checked my local dealer (where I got the XFR).
They have 5 F-types ranging from $73K to $103K, including 3 V8 S on the lot.
Shocking!!!
As a contrast the C7 Corvette Stingray is on dealer restricted allocation, and many dealers are up in arms because they can't get even a single one, even with a firm customer order, for several months and no prospect of being able to get one.
Really shocking - 5 F-types for the taking in one small local dealer.
I revise my predictions. Heavy discounts will start in the FIRST model year. And by next winter it will be bargain galore to buy left over 2014 cars.
Now I see the need for the low lease.
Wow!!!!
Shocking.'
Jaguar F-type Incentive Lease for only $759/month
