Supacat wrote:

J77 wrote:

They must be going somewhere. Pentland now only have 44 available, it was 59 end of last month. I was considering a base 110 but they don’t have the colour combo I want and really it’s bigger than I need.

Are they all on the used car lot?

Just looked at Guy Salmon Approved Used. They are listing 12 new Defenders, 3 have between 3k and 5k mileage, so assume they could be demo vehicles they are moving on early, one has 5 miles, two have 10 miles and the others are undeclared.

I'd put money on the twelve all being 1st registered by the dealer yet really not being sold as in a proper retail sale, yet they will still count in the retail sales figures published above.

This is a multi-site dealership but multiply that across the board by say 50 all doing similar with just 10 vehicles and that's nearly 25% of the retail sales not going to the public but just being registered and shunted across to the used car lot.

Seriously, that is grim.

adafish wrote:

You seem to get more info than me and i work there We were chatting about sales and lack of build at CB, they are still on furlough at the moment and looking to return October. Plenty of stories going round with plant but not allowed to say anything.

That doesn't surprise me. I have found most news about the places I have worked by people from outside of the organisations! In fact I still do. Mostly sales Reps who have access to many people.

Businesses don't tend to share real information with their workers.

Most stuff shared is propaganda trying to rally the troops and keep the enthusiasm up!

I worked for a large Swiss/Swedish Engineering Group called ABB many many years ago. They sent us all a video (on a CD!!) to watch. We all sat around the one PC in the Office with the speakers to watch the video. At the end we were asked what we thought. I said that I was quitting work to go and get a job with this company as they seemed really exciting and innovative and everything that the company I worked for at the time wasn't.

A) Luckily there were no Management in the Office (I'm stupid, but not that stupid )
B) Everyone else agreed that what we watched bore no resemblance to the company we worked for!

Just saying adafish, if JLR are going to be making big changes, the chances are the people who work for them will be the absolute last to know.

LRSpain004 wrote:

If you wish to subscribe you can find all the sales here... I won't be surprised if they kill the Discovery, it has never sold well.

https://bestsellingcarsblog.com/2020/07/eu...3-3-shine/

Thanks but I'm struggling with that website. It says data one month old is available free, but when I try and get May data it says I need one of the pay level subscriptions?

LRSpain004 wrote:

I won't be surprised if they kill the Discovery, it has never sold well.

Except to Bulgarian border police:


I wonder what discount they got?

https://bestsellingcarsblog.com/2019/04/bu...der-fleet/

Obviously well aware of the warranty situation:

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"A handover ceremony was held on March 8 as Bulgaria’s Border Police got 70 off-road vehicles, worth more than seven million leva (about 3.5 million euro).

The purchase of the vehicles was co-funded by the European Union’s Internal Security Fund.

Speaking at the ceremony, at which the vehicles were blessed by a Bulgarian Orthodox Church clergyman, Interior Minister Mladen Marinov said that the vehicles would improve the security of the EU’s external borders."

https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/03/08/bulgaria...n-7m-leva/

And JLR whine about not getting enough state aid

I wonder what happened to the 40 Defenders given them in 2016:


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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/british...er-control

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Obviously well aware of the warranty situation:

 Rgds.

Chris