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I will try my best to provide detailed info on various cars and what is like to live with them, I have already produced a few for Jaguar-car-forums, I will do my best to be unbiased, but it will be hard for some cars. I will re-produce press releases and copy from other motoring news.
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Wednesday, 21 December 2016

A unique Jaguar F-PACE, personally specified by Jaguar Director of Design Ian Callum, has raised £102,500 at the annual charitable Ben Ball

  • A unique Jaguar F-PACE, personally specified by Jaguar Director of Design Ian Callum, has raised £102,500 at the annual charitable Ben Ball
  • The one of a kind car is finished in Storm Grey paint, fitted with the Black Pack and 22-inch Double Helix wheels – not available as a standard option on the F-PACE
  • The winner of the F-PACE ‘Designer Edition’ lot also receives a special Owner’s Portfolio, featuring words from Ian Callum and a one-off design sketch
  • Jaguar Land Rover UK MD, Jeremy Hicks, also announced his ‘Channel Swim Challenge’ at the event, hoping to raise more than £150,000 swimming the Channel with 11 colleagues
A one-of-a-kind Jaguar F-PACE ‘Designer Edition’, described by Jaguar Director of Design, Ian Callum, as his ‘Director’s Cut’, has raised £102,500 at the annual charitable Ben Ball. The F-PACE 3.0 V6 S also comes with a unique Owner’s Portfolio, featuring an introduction by Ian Callum and a bespoke sketch.
Each element of the F-PACE ‘Designer Edition’ has been personally specified by Callum to create his ideal example of the F-PACE, Jaguar’s first-ever SUV. 


Finished in Storm Grey paint, paired with the Black Pack, Callum also picked out Ebony Taurus leather with Light Oyster stitching and 22-inch Double Helix alloy wheels – not available as a standard F-PACE option.
The one-off Owner’s Portfolio delivered with the car certifies the uniqueness of the ‘Designer Edition’ and provides insight into Ian Callum’s choices in specifying the car. It also includes a bespoke sketch drawn and signed by the man himself.
Ian Callum, Jaguar Director of Design, said: “The F-PACE was a real pleasure to design, and the result is something we are incredibly proud of, but this ‘Designer Edition’ is in essence my ultimate F-PACE. You’ve got this wonderful positioning of the Storm Grey paint against the details of the Black Pack, complete with those wonderful 22-inch wheels that look like they’re taking the car forwards, even at a standstill.”
The Ben Ball also marked the announcement of Jaguar Land Rover UK MD Jeremy Hicks’ Channel Swim Challenge. In August 2017 Jeremy will be swimming the English Channel as part of a two-team relay with 11 of his Jaguar Land Rover colleagues, hoping to raise more than £150,000 for Ben, the automotive industry’s dedicated charity.
“Ben is a vital lifeline, with its sole purpose to help improve the health and wellbeing of those in the automotive industry and their families. I really wanted to challenge myself, my team and also the industry to get behind Ben, as our own dedicated industry charity. I’m pushing myself physically because it’s all too easy for us to take our good health for granted, and with our help Ben can come to the aid of those in our industry that need it most.”

Thursday, 7 July 2016

CHINA - General Motors sets a June and Year To Date sales record, exceeding 1.8 Million units.

  • June deliveries up 11.2 percent to 273,563 units
  • First half deliveries up 5.3 percent to 1,810,476 units
General Motors and its joint ventures had record June deliveries in China of 273,563 units, which was up 11.2 percent on an annual basis. The Buick, Cadillac and Baojun brands had their best June ever.
Its strong performance in June enabled GM to set a first half record for deliveries in China. Demand was up 5.3 percent from the first six months of 2015 to 1,810,476 units.

“Sales of the Cadillac luxury brand and Buick have remained strong throughout 2016,” said GM Executive Vice President and GM China President Matt Tsien. “We have also seen very high demand for our Baojun entry-level passenger car brand and a return to growth for the Wuling brand.”
Cadillac deliveries in June jumped 34 percent on an annual basis to 9,552 units. Demand for the ATS-L and XTS luxury sedans and XT5 luxury crossover all surpassed 2,000 units last month.
Buick deliveries were up 10 percent year over year to 86,054 units in June. Demand for the Excelle GT sedan remained strong, exceeding 26,000 units. Demand for the brand’s best-selling SUV, the Envision, increased 27 percent to more than 14,000 units.
Baojun deliveries more than doubled to 43,249 units in June from a year earlier. Deliveries of both of its best-selling models, the Baojun 730 MPV and Baojun 560 SUV, exceeded 20,000 units.
Wuling deliveries advanced 8.1 percent to 99,017 units from the previous June. The Hong Guang MPV family remained popular, with demand surpassing 30,000 units. Demand for the Rong Guang V minivan was up 20 percent.
Chevrolet deliveries were down 25 percent year over year in June to 35,648 units. The Malibu XL, Chevrolet’s new flagship sedan launched in February, increased its momentum as it posted a 46 percent month-over-month increase. The all-new Cruze passenger car will be launched this quarter.

Friday, 15 April 2016

Record sales in Western Europe for Nissan driven by sales increases in major markets including Europe & USA

  • Record sales in Western Europe driven by sales increases in major markets including UK, Germany, Italy, France and Spain
  • European market share with the Datsun brand is 4.0%, in line with FY14
  • Best-ever electric vehicle sales, with 16,916 LEAFs sold in Europe; e-NV200 sales of 3,794
  • Qashqai, Juke and X-Trail make Nissan the No 1 crossover brand
Nissan has today announced European sales in fiscal year 2015 (ending March 31st) of 710,321 and Nissan sales in Western Europe of 621,910, an increase of 9.4% on 2014 levels and an all-time high.
Nissan with Datsun recorded European sales of 737,501 units in FY2015, in line with 2014 sales. March 2016 sales totalled 95,720, again in line with the previous year. This marks the sixth consecutive year of market share growth and consistently healthy sales since 2009 levels.

Nissan sales increased in all major markets in Western Europe during FY2015 with measurable increases in Spain +19.3%, Germany +13.2% Italy +8.8%, UK +4.2% and in France +3.9%.
The brand’s European sales were bolstered by the launch of NP300 Navara and the new longer range Leaf 30 kWh. The pioneering Nissan Qashqai crossover continues to go from strength to strength with more than 250,000 customers in FY2015 choosing its style, efficiency and advanced technologies such as the Safety Shield and Around View Monitor.
The expansion of Nissan’s electric vehicle line- up is paying great dividends. The Nissan LEAF continues to lead the electric vehicle segment globally and sold 16,916 cars in Europe this outgoing fiscal year, a new annual record. Nissan is leading the way in important new technologies with much more to come both in electric cars and in autonomous driving vehicles - the future of transportation.
Guillaume Cartier, Nissan’s Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing Europe, said: “We have a commitment to continue to bring more to our customers – more choice, more value and more innovative and exciting products.
Nissan stands apart from its class. We deliver quality and we continue to reinvent and break boundaries such as the new Nissan Micra which is launching this year. We are very excited about Nissan’s piloted drive Qashqai, featuring autonomous drive technologies, which will be coming to Europe in 2017”.
Nissan’s product line-up is strong and cohesive which results in Nissan’s European car plants breaking records year after year.  2016 marks the thirtieth Anniversary of Nissan’s UK plant in Sunderland which has produced more than 400,000 units for the sixth consecutive year.  Nissan produced 615,000 vehicles in Europe in 2015.
KEY MARKET HIGHLIGHTS FOR FY2015
SPAINMarket share 5.0% - highest sales volume in 10 years, Nissan leads the electric vehicle market in Spain with 32% of market share, total LCV sales up 32%
UK Market share 5.4% - Qashqai becomes the 5th best-selling car this fiscal year, X-Trail achieves an 80%, YoY volume increase with 10,852 units, Leaf achieves a record volume of 5,106 units
ITALYMarket Share 3.5% - Best-selling models Qashqai, Micra & Juke
GERMANYMarket share 2.2% -Best share and retail for Nissan in Germany since 2000; Fastest growing LCV brand in the market.
COUNTRY FY2015 TOTAL SALES FY2014 TOTAL SALES% INCREASE / DECREASE
UK164,406157,770+4.2%
RUSSIA113,179168,712-32.9%
FRANCE76,83873,927+3.9%
GERMANY75,20166,418+13.2%
ITALY62,98257,859+8.9%
SPAIN61,00551,133+19.3%
EUROPE737,501740,641-0.4%
TOP 5 EUROPEAN MARKETS MARCH 2016
#MARKETUNIT SALES
1 UK31,401
2GERMANY8,876
3FRANCE8,816
4RUSSIA8,821
5SPAIN7,202
TOP 5 EUROPEAN MARKETS FY 2015
#MARKETUNIT SALES
1UK164,406
2RUSSIA113,179
3FRANCE76,838
4GERMANY75,201
5ITALY62,982
TOP 5 MODELS MARCH 2016
#MODELUNIT SALES
1QASHQAI32,667
2JUKE14,466
3X TRAIL11,169
4MICRA9,703
5NOTE5,598
TOP 5 MODELS FY 2015
#MODELUNIT SALES
1QASHQAI251,025
2JUKE109,272
3X-TRAIL72,541
4MICRA69,465
5NOTE41,934