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Cars and energy seem to be a growing theme around here. Today’s edition discusses both issues.
- Jaguar Land Rover is apparently scouting for factory locations in the Southeast United States.
- One of the more interesting “young people have given up on cars” articles.
- Another application for the 9-speed automatic.
- An encyclopedia of the oil crash.
- IHS predicts a bottoming of the crude oil market in the second half of 2015.
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I fully believe that any JLR products made in the USA would be the most well-built products they ever made – ever.
Has there ever been an English car made in the US?
I honestly don’t think so. If there were, it would likely have been a rebadge job – something like the Honda-Rover times.
Rolls-Royce made left-drive cars in Springfield Mass from 1921 until about 1931,
While it was the Great Depression that killed sales, there was a snobbery of buyers who perceived the US-built cars weren’t as good as the RHD Crewe cars.
If I’m an upper-crust American in 1925, my RR better damn well be a British RR. Who cares if the driver has to sit on the right!
There were some way back in the ancient times before the 1930s, but nothing much since then.
“Has there ever been an English car made in the US?”
English company? Aside from McLaren, there are no British – much less English – car companies that matter.
Only their badge-corpses remain, contrived to look alive in a corporate imitation of Weekend at Bernie’s.
I don’t think an Indian company has ever made cars in the United States before, so there’s that.
I guess I should have said English *brand* If it wasn’t for Tata there’d be no Jaguar. If it wasn’t for FIAT there’d be no Jeep, but it’s still an American brand
they’ll probably just build it in a 3rd world nation like Alabama or Mississippi.
The Morgan three wheelers that were better than the Morgan’s, not Morgan’s and are now I believe built by Morgan in the UK. So, that wouldn’t really count now that I think about it. I’m just sad I don’t fit in one so I may be obsessing a bit.
Rolls-Royce made left-drive cars in Springfield Mass from 1921 until about 1931,
While it was the Great Depression that killed sales, there was a snobbery of buyers who perceived the US-built cars weren’t as good as the RHD Crewe cars.
Austin build cars in the U.S.A. before world war two. I think it was called the Austin Bantam, Don’t know if that was the correct spelling but they also designed a Jeep for the U.S.Army before the world war II. I understand it beat out the Ford & Willy’s Jeep but the army could not accept it because they did not have the means of production that Ford && Willy’s had