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BTW - our local golf course now makes people who turn up in Transits etc park outside.
Particularly if they're driven by women. 
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Too right Paul. If you turn up in a golf they make you park in the artisans area  A bit like turning up to a horse trials with a scruffy Land-Rover SIII towing a scruffy Rice trailer. We were made to park at the bottom of the hill a long way away from the posh horse boxes. I wonder if that is why  decided that we needed our own lorry-box at that point. BTW - our local golf course now makes people who turn up in Transits etc park outside. I'm afraid that such elitist snobbery would get them a finger from me and no return.............. I've no time for such arse licking cliques...... 
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Perhaps the job cuts are exactly as pre-warned by JLR and coincides with the move of production of the Discovery to Slovakia. In theory the Solihull plant will be converted to the production of electric powered vehicles. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-46387055
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The last UK built Discovery left the production line of Friday. Discovery 1989-2009.
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The last UK built Discovery left the production line of Friday. Discovery 1989-2009. Did you mean 2019 ?
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Too right Paul. If you turn up in a golf they make you park in the artisans area A bit like turning up to a horse trials with a scruffy Land-Rover SIII towing a scruffy Rice trailer. We were made to park at the bottom of the hill a long way away from the posh horse boxes. I wonder if that is why decided that we needed our own lorry-box at that point. BTW - our local golf course now makes people who turn up in Transits etc park outside. I'm afraid that such elitist snobbery would get them a finger from me and no return.............. I've no time for such arse licking cliques...... It isn’t snobbery in this case. They have a 2m height limit (a chain across the gateway) to try and prevent a re-occupation by travellers as happened early last year. The chain they have used will withstand a pair of bolt croppers for a good 20 seconds though.
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The last UK built Discovery left the production line of Friday. Discovery 1989-2009. Did you mean 2019 ? Does anyone know where the new Defender will be built?
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The last UK built Discovery left the production line of Friday. Discovery 1989-2009. Did you mean 2019 ? Does anyone know where the new Defender will be built? No, all I have read so far states it's still undecided although I rather hope it will be here.
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According to the last comment in Autocar it is Slovakia.
"One question hanging over the new Defender is where it will be produced. It is unlikely to be built in Britain because the two JLR factories that make aluminium-bodied cars, at Solihull and Castle Bromwich, are close to capacity.
That leaves the firm’s new plant in Slovakia (where the Discovery, to which the new Defender will be closely related, will be built) as the most likely location. However, outsourcing its manufacture is another option, with Magna in Austria set to build an as yet unconfirmed second JLR model in addition to the Jaguar E-Pace."
However if figures are down on those models then it would be good to keep it here. I guess the Brexit tariff issue will be the decider. A good chunk of the industry is pausing to see what happens?
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