Mike Rutherford
Britain is the hottest place on the planet for premium, luxury, performance and cool car design and manufacture HEARD the one about the Englishman, German, Indian and Scotsman who all liked the company so much they, er, took it over? The four in question are car addicts. They didn’t exactly meet at a session of Autoholics Anonymous but, thankfully, they did somehow team up under extraordinary circumstances to rescue Jaguar.
And not content with saving the company, they achieved for Jaguar what its previous owner, Ford, couldn’t. In short, these guys have transformed the firm from struggling, quintessentially English bitplayer to genuine world champion.
Jeremy Hicks (Englishman) is Jaguar UK’s brilliant MD-cum-salesman who assured me that if the F-Pace first won the Auto Express Car of the Year…
