JLR problems?

Land Rover went down hill when the TD5 left production in 2007

Discodevon said:

Land Rover went down hill when the TD5 left production in 2007

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Was that model uncomplicated for it's day?
I've no knowledge of them, but a neighbour of mine recently sold his TD5 90 due to the impending cost (total, parts labour & vat) of replacing the clutch.

JLR have many problems internally. Far too many middle managers don't actually do anything and usually got there because they know someone higher up. They take all the credit for everyone else's work and go to lots of meetings so it looks like they're doing something. Groups of engineers are encouraged to work in isolation from each other so no one knows who's doing what- hence internal fights over the same space and endless problems with weight and cost. They're stuck in panic mode trying to fix problems what someone let out into the field, so everything is short-term bolt-on fixes to get through the next review. Keep adding parts and you get unreliable systems and the cycle of issues continues.

I expect it will be the actual productive people who get the boot, rather than the truely useless. It all carries on.