Jaguar Land Rover Pays The Price As Big Bets Fall Flat
Instead, JLR has diversified, aping the strategy of BMW, the German brand where its chief executive Ralf Speth once worked, trying to have products in every segment of the market. The result is a mishmash, with the three brands often vying for the same customers. The Jaguar F Pace SUV, launched with aplomb and a stunt that involved driving a loop-the-loop in 2016, sits in the same price brackets as the Range Rover Evoque and the Land Rover Discovery Sport. The choice to launch the Range Rover Velar a year later, a mid-sized sport utility vehicle and the newest in the brand鈥檚 line-up, was questioned from the outset. The lower end of the product line competes with the Land Rover Discovery, a relatively recent car which last year began being produced in Slovakia, while the upper end directly competes with Range Rover Sport, one of JLR鈥檚 chief moneymakers. Cannibalisation has ensued. While Velar sales in the past quarter fell by a third, Discovery sales dropped by 40 per cent. 鈥淭hey have to differentiate their products better,鈥?says David Bailey, automotive professor at Aston University. 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 compete across the range against BMW; you wonder why they鈥檙e bothering,鈥?he says. Part of JLR鈥檚 turnround plan will see it simplify the model line-up. But there are still questions over whether the team that led the carmaker into the quagmire is the right one to pull it out. 鈥淭here are signs work is being done to save JLR,鈥?says Mr Zhu at Bernstein.
The 2016 Honda Pilot represents a complete redesign for this popular, but previously underwhelming three-row crossover. It's more streamlined in appearance, more carlike to drive and plusher inside, while the features list swells with the latest technology, safety and luxury equipment. After our first lengthy test-drive, it feels like a class leader. The terms "all-new" and "completely redesigned" get thrown around liberally when new cars debut, and yet there's a good chance that the average car shopper would struggle to tell the difference between one generation and the next. That isn't the case with the 2016 Honda Pilot, as its redesign will be noticeable even by those who can't otherwise tell a Honda from a Hyundai. Indeed, this is a radical transformation. Yet it's almost as if Honda pretended the boxy, trucklike, second-generation Pilot never existed, instead creating a more streamlined and carlike (or at least wagonlike) vehicle. There is a new V6 engine paired to equally new six- or nine-speed automatic transmissions, as well as an optional all-wheel-drive system that borrows some handling-assisting tricks from Acura.
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When Jaguar Land Rover launches the reborn 2020 Defender SUV, it will be the most capable off-road vehicle ever built by the company, according to executives. Its off-road ability will come from advanced technology rather than heavy-duty components. 鈥淭he new Defender will retain some of the original appeal,鈥?Eberhardt said. The original Defender, built from 1983 to 2016, is a rugged utilitarian vehicle with a notoriously boxy design and few amenities. It has live front and rear axles. A leaf spring - and later coil spring - suspension helped the body-on-frame chassis bounce around. Power from a range of torquey engines traveled through a four- or five-speed manual transmission. The SUV gained a reputation for its ability to traverse any terrain in the worst conditions. It became beloved by adventurers, explorers and Queen Elizabeth II. Land Rover built armored versions of the Defender for the British Army. By comparison, the 2020 Defender will have far more in common with the current crop of off-road-capable crossovers from rival manufacturers. Spy photographers captured prototypes of the future Defender using an independent suspension, which improves fuel economy and ride comfort.
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