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Jaguar Tanks

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Jaguar: the classic British sports coupe, driven by men licensed to kill… as well as brow-less, gender-queer humanoids with blue eyeshadow dressed in pink latex bodysuits! What could possibly go wrong?

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0:00.0

Hey, ever seen a car company commit suicide? You want to? We'll have a seat. Hey, everybody,

0:06.1

I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. This is Right Angle, brought you by the members of

0:09.9

Bill Whittle.com. Gentlemen, I don't know if you've been watching Jaguar over the last couple of

0:15.0

years, but this company is in trouble. As recently as 2018, they sold 181,000 cars.

0:24.4

Last year, they sold just under 33,000.

0:27.6

And in April, these are the most current sales figures available,

0:33.9

Jaguar sold 49 cars in the massive UK European market.

0:37.0

Now, U.S. sales figures aren't available yet, but they aren't going to be a whole lot better.

0:46.2

Jaguar went from selling 1,961 cars a month to 49 in just six years. I'm no industry expert,

0:53.3

but that looks bad, doesn't it? Does that look bad to you guys? This design rush reported today that the 97.5% plunge marked one of the steepest declines for a premium car maker in recent history.

1:00.1

And I'm going to say that's probably in all history.

1:03.2

Now, the company understood that something had to change.

1:05.0

And in November, you may have seen this already, it revealed its copy nothing rebranding.

1:10.3

If you missed it then, just take 30

1:12.9

seconds and watch this now. Scott, do you find it a little strange that there were almost the same number of cars

1:49.3

zero in the ad that JAG is making right now because, get this, they have actually canceled

1:56.4

every single Jaguar model except for one, and they're only producing those in limited numbers.

2:03.0

They're not making ads. They're making prophecy. It's just unbelievable. I mentioned to you

2:10.3

backstage that when I saw that commercial, I think if you're the target market for that commercial, which is as we're seeing, a vanishingly small number of people, it's probably great.

2:24.3

If you're everybody else, you spend the entire ad trying to figure out exactly what you're looking at.

2:30.5

But one thing you know you're not looking at is automobiles.

2:36.5

And to go from being one of this sort of admired uh at least i'm not going to say it was ever one of the top performance machines

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