ANOTHER tough news week for Jaguar Land Rover, then, as the British company posted a quarterly loss of £273million compounded (and then some) by write-downs on the value of various investments. The total figure in the red, for just the last three months of 2018, was a staggering £3.4billion.
And yet there should be hope. As you’ll read from our early ride impressions of the all-new Evoque on Page 8, JLR can still produce great cars. The second generation of the genre-making small SUV is more like a true baby Range Rover than its predecessor ever was.
It does also feel, though, like a vehicle that will sit in parallel with where the customer and legislative trends are going, instead of being bang on message. Because while there’s mild-hybrid tech…
