J77
Member Since: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Fife
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jimbg wrote:I presume you mean won and not joining Tripe? 
 23.5MY Defender 90 X-Dynamic SE D250 MHEV Pangea Green
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ruben
D3 Decade
Member Since: 26 Sep 2006
Location: ASTURIAS
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the videos are fine ... only one repair ... I have never liked white cars, I hate them, but the D5 wins by a landslide!!!  seriously I think it's a horrible car in white!!! lost in translation!
DISCOVERY 3 SE man. TDV6 2006, my true love!
DEFENDER 2 SE D I6 MHEV 2024, other live.
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| 15th Apr 2018 12:53 pm |
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LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
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Nice videos. As they say, “never judge a book by its cover”. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
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| 15th Apr 2018 1:10 pm |
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ruben
D3 Decade
Member Since: 26 Sep 2006
Location: ASTURIAS
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...and I would said ....the color is, of course, a minor problem, no doubt!  lost in translation!
DISCOVERY 3 SE man. TDV6 2006, my true love!
DEFENDER 2 SE D I6 MHEV 2024, other live.
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| 15th Apr 2018 1:56 pm |
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Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
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DiscoStu wrote:As for keeping production lines busy, no manufacturers build for the sake of building. That’s a one way road to bankruptcy.
Illogical though it seems, it happens all the time and not just in the car industry  2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
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| 15th Apr 2018 3:29 pm |
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DG
Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
Posts: 50978
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 .....this is turning into the Russian thread..... only this time it's the majority wearing the tin foil hats 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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| 15th Apr 2018 4:10 pm |
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kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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DiscoStu wrote:
As for keeping production lines busy, no manufacturers build for the sake of building. That’s a one way road to bankruptcy.
Yes and no... to fill overseas inventory they must to build and stock vehicles based on some kind of [internal] forecasting. Somewhere (don’t remember where I read it) it was stated that it takes up to 4 months for a “build to order” LR vehicle to appear at a dealer in USA. The ro-ro carriers are probably kept running with fairly high load factors. Naturally, UK inventory doesn’t have such lead times.
To me the number sounds reasonable as it has taken roughly 2 months for a Gothenburg, Sweden “built to order” Volvo to be delivered (to me) in Helsinki, Finland.
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| 15th Apr 2018 5:25 pm |
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AndrewS
Tarquin of the Desert
Member Since: 06 May 2005
Location: Y...... because I can
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Well I see 100s each day where I live. In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
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| 15th Apr 2018 7:32 pm |
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Tripe
Member Since: 28 Jun 2015
Location: Tasmania
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JLR just sacked 1000 UK workers ?
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| 15th Apr 2018 10:18 pm |
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Tripe
Member Since: 28 Jun 2015
Location: Tasmania
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“The cuts are understood to have been triggered by a 26% drop in JLR sales in the UK in the first three months of 2018. Sales in Germany, Europe’s biggest car market dropped 32%”
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| 15th Apr 2018 10:22 pm |
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DG
Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
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News travel very slow to Tasmania 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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| 15th Apr 2018 10:24 pm |
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DG
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Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
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kajtzu wrote: Naturally, UK inventory doesn’t have such lead times.
They work on a JIT 'order to build' basis ...though delay builds through line capacity issues. Some like to compare builds to other marque lines without taking this into account and therein lies another myth  21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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| 15th Apr 2018 11:25 pm |
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Tripe
Member Since: 28 Jun 2015
Location: Tasmania
Posts: 285
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DG
JLR, are looking for someone to re arrange some deckchairs.
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| 16th Apr 2018 12:07 am |
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kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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DG wrote:kajtzu wrote: Naturally, UK inventory doesn’t have such lead times.
They work on a JIT 'order to build' basis ...though delay builds through line capacity issues. Some like to compare builds to other marque lines without taking this into account and therein lies another myth
Yeah, sounds very similar to what Volvo has. The minimum time from ordering to completion was 6 weeks (since they offered factory pickup) and an additional 2 weeks for transporting.
Even though Volvo repeats the “every car is built for a specific customer” mantra, the distributors tend to have near immediate stock but they’re always white/grey/black or announced as “we received a special batch”.
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| 16th Apr 2018 4:07 am |
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