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While Rawdon Glover parades his luxury handbag on wheels around Paris, a new British company has come up with the car he should be building. https://longbowmotors.com/ Is it still too late for Jaguar to change their minds?

Was surprised yesterday to see two car transporters heading into Southampton docks, with a total of 14 new V8 F-Types (almost all gray). I wonder where they’d been hiding? Guess this is the very last of the model run. Hopefully the transfer drivers who put the cars on the car carrier decks had...

Just had my renewal through for the next year (2020 P300). £1500 this time - about 50% increase on last year. Clearly all those headlamp replacements have to be paid for. Just about acceptable I suppose given the cost of doing anything on the F-type these days at a dealer. The Select warranty is...

My Jaguar extended warranty renewal has arrived and it’s gone from £800 to over £1000 including the Jaguar recovery. Another example of shocking price increases. Have gone with it this time but perhaps not much longer. Somewhat apprehensive already about next years insurance increase. Will these...

Checking a service booking today I find that my Jaguar dealer in Taunton will be closing next year - it seems in anticipation of the not hotly awaited transition of Jaguar to budget busting EVs, Jaguar will only have 18 dealers in the whole of the UK in 2025, from I believe 92 now. The pompous...

Just back from a great few days on the Isle of Man. Forum members may not be aware that the national speed limit on the IOM is - there is no limit, just “safe and sensible”. With some terrific driving roads across the various mountains, all in excellent condition and pothole free, this must be...

Handy if you have several cars https://www.gov.uk/driver-vehicles-account

Decided to avoid the Coronation dog and pony show with a week in Normandy. Had fond memories of driving a two seater forty years ago on the French highways. Sadly disappointed to find that France now has 80km/h limits , often 70km/h, on the single highway roads and towns and villages now at...

I’ve just hit 3 years on my P300 and the navigation updates are now disabled. I could renew but I’m struggling with the value after paying out £££ for the extended warranty and ££ for the connected system. Experience of the software has not been good. Very infrequent updates, clumsy update...

The only question is how many years it is going to take - and if it gets licensed to other makers https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/08/scratches-to-car-paint-disappear-in-sunlight-with-self-healing-coating-material

Sadly my original windscreen was hit by a stone from a passing ambulance, right in the driver vision zone. Damage 11mm across so replacement required (though I couldn’t have lived with a repair there). Autoglass replaced it under the car insurance but I got a Fuyao screen instead of the OEM...

Anyone finding their Route Planner login over the last few days isn’t working from the car - there is a fault in the system and Jaguar are aware of it. Customer Services told me today it should be fixed later this week. I suppose there is no chance now that the browser tool will get improved as...

I found a product which actually removes all screen contamination with very little effort. This is Soft99 Glaco Glass Compound Roll On 10308. Available on Amazon for £10.99. Finally, a screen without waxy smears in the rain! (of which we seem to have much of recently).

We don’t have the Alpine tunnels but we do have a few to enjoy some aural feedback in. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-10444235/Best-tunnels-Britain-10-revealed-Penmaenbach-top.html

My glass was coated in Gtechniq G1 18 months ago but has done the usual smeary thing. So how to remove? Ordinary cleaners had little effect. On advice from Gtechniq I used the G4 cleaner to remove it and it does work, except I had to do it seven separate times with an IPA scrub between each...