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Supacat

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I had a look at I Pace sales by month - whilst JLR were still publishing the data monthly. I don't think any of the months could be described as good - the current mean average of 1,135 up to and including the March 2020 retail sales figures.

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Not sure it will get any better with today's updates to the model announced and a price increase of £700. base model now starts at over £65k.

23rd Jun 2020 3:04pm

adafish

Member Since: 30 Mar 2009
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Huttopia wrote:
/\ good question! I heard somewhere recently that the plant in Slovakia has been sold and the production is returning to the UK? Maybe old news, or maybe I dreamt it.

no comment

Putting Dreams on Drives at JLR Solihull..

23rd Jun 2020 5:35pm

Huttopia

Member Since: 23 Feb 2016
Location: West Midlands
Posts: 1978

/\ and Eric thought it was a wet dream 🤦‍♂️

The rationale for it was that there are many car factories in the same area, the competition for staff is fierce and the pay rates increasing through market pressure to uncompetitive levels. Factory A puts a sign up saying we now pay half a groat more and the coaches all turn into that yard, leaving LR or whoever in the lurch. Might be true, might not.

23rd Jun 2020 5:40pm

Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
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JLR senior management late to the table again.

Well before they announced the move there, Slovakia’s economy had already seen a period of substantial growth, falling unemployment, greater unionisation and unrest among workers who were seeing foreign car companies paying them less for building the same cars/undertaking the same tasks as in other countries. The cheap labour ride was never going to last for long.

23rd Jun 2020 6:02pm

Huttopia

Member Since: 23 Feb 2016
Location: West Midlands
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No different to the offshoring of IT. I did some work for Astra Zeneca who had at the time arrangements with Infosys, Cognizant et al. You’d be speaking to XYZ from Infosys one week and they’d appear at Cognizant the week after. A few dollars more.

All now onshore. Shock horror 🤥

23rd Jun 2020 6:09pm

Zed

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Quote:
JLR senior management late to the table again.

Well before they announced the move there, Slovakia’s economy had already seen a period of substantial growth, falling unemployment, greater unionisation and unrest among workers who were seeing foreign car companies paying them less for building the same cars/undertaking the same tasks as in other countries. The cheap labour ride was never going to last for long.

China it is then!

Joking aside, because of JLR’s ‘Junk’ credit rating and a knock back from our government they had to borrow a load of dough from Chinese banks. It wouldn’t surprise me if they ended up with equity as well. WARNING.
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23rd Jun 2020 6:10pm

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