Jaguar-Land Rover Need to Buy Subaru

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10/05/2017 at 20:32 • Filed to: Subaru

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Why haven’t rumors of Subaru being bought from Fuji cropped up yet? Just to stir some responses. It seems as if Toyota is ready to take in Mazda and Fuji Heavy Industries with Subaru are next in line. But what if JLR (supported by Tata) just threw down the gloves and offered to buy the Subaru brand right from Fuji?

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Subaru is unstoppable in the US. The average transaction price for their cars was nearing $29,000 last I checked. The industry average was around $35,000. But here is the thing, every automaker has premium offerings and premium brands to inflate that average. That means they offer cars and trucks that are priced well above that industry average $35,000. The fact that Subaru is nailing an average buy that is above the starting price of every model they offer is astounding. Hyundai-Kia and Honda-Acura were averaging a lower transaction price than Subaru. All this means that people are begging for as much Subaru as they can get!

If any brand should be going upmarket it’s Subaru!!

Enter JLR...

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Let’s face it, there is no synergizing between the Tata brand and JLR. They do nothing for each other but share a bank account. No trickle down prestige, no scaling costs, just a big nada for Tata. However, I think Subaru could be that bridge everyone needs.

JLR wants to buy another luxury brand? Forget that, buy Subaru!

Land Rover wants to spin off an on-road brand called Road Rover? Hey, I understand! I could be convinced of a brand between Subaru and Land Rover that isn’t as performance and style focused as Jaguar. In fact, I think Subaru-Road Rover dealerships would be great since Jaguar and Land Rover cant share a dealership or service space with Subaru.

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Think of the powertrains! All of a sudden you have boxer 4-cyls, the upcoming inline six, V8s, diesels and every type of AWD type out there!

Think of the exhaust notes!

Think of the designs!!

Think of the doggos!!!


DISCUSSION (13)


Kinja'd!!! Textured Soy Protein > Wobbles the Mind
10/05/2017 at 20:37

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Except, Fuji Heavy Industries changed its name to Subaru and is stopping production of all non-car products.

https://blog.caranddriver.com/subaru-puts-focus-squarely-on-cars-as-the-company-ends-industrial-products-manufacturing/


Kinja'd!!! Wobbles the Mind > Textured Soy Protein
10/05/2017 at 20:41

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Well damn! I missed that news completely.


Kinja'd!!! promoted by the color red > Wobbles the Mind
10/05/2017 at 20:41

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And a Range Rover that’s actually in your range?


Kinja'd!!! TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Wobbles the Mind
10/05/2017 at 20:47

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Fuji’s dead mate.


Kinja'd!!! djmt1 > Wobbles the Mind
10/05/2017 at 20:49

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Going down market hasn’t really been a stellar success for JLR and to be honest I still don’t understand why they would want a luxury brand. They’re biggest problem is that their customers think Range Rovers are too cheap.

The company they should buy is McLaren since they hit both the luxury and technology aspects they are allegedly looking for but McLaren have less than zero interest in being bought.


Kinja'd!!! DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Wobbles the Mind
10/05/2017 at 20:52

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If boxer engines have a lower center of gravity. Could they put them in LRs and they’d be less likely to flip!?!?!?!?!?!!? O_o


Kinja'd!!! TorqueToYield > Wobbles the Mind
10/05/2017 at 21:06

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Good God man, no no no.

A company like JLR/Tata would never understand a Japanese quirky engineering based company like Subaru.

Kiss flat 4s goodbye, say goodbye to all AWD (let’s ignore the BRZ k). Cut costs on all the engineering based design.

You think the WRX/STI are endangered now, wait until the real big corporate bean counters look at the numbers.


Kinja'd!!! DipodomysDeserti > Wobbles the Mind
10/05/2017 at 21:09

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I don’t think Subaru (FHI changed their name to Subaru) is going to sell Subaru anytime soon, and that’s a good thing. Those companies would ruin Subaru. They’d put their crappy engines into Subies, not the other way around.


Kinja'd!!! Steve in Manhattan > Wobbles the Mind
10/05/2017 at 21:22

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Well, Subarus would depreciate a lot faster ...


Kinja'd!!! Vítor > djmt1
10/05/2017 at 21:35

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They should go with Aston then. Just like it was before but this time with Tata as the rich daddy instead of close-fisted Ford


Kinja'd!!! gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Vítor
10/05/2017 at 21:40

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They were bought by close fisted ford, becuase BL was rich daddy, who never learned the Empire was gone.


Kinja'd!!! Vítor > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
10/05/2017 at 21:58

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Thank god that Tata is the antithesis of BL. Maybe this time it will work, it surely did for JLR (C-X75 apart, I’m still bitter than the Indians didn’t went through with the prettiest, and the most interesting, of the Hypercars)


Kinja'd!!! wafflesnfalafel > Textured Soy Protein
10/05/2017 at 22:16

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yeah - that is odd. I thought they still did a bunch of construction machinery, aircraft work, aerospace stuff for the Japanese space agency, etc... But you are right - it could very well be they are stopping/offloading operations that might hamper a sale to either an Indian or Chinese company...