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This is from the East Anglian Daily Times

Suffolk Sportscars goes into liquidation

Ouch. Looks like one the directors took a big hit there. What a waste & a spiteful action by JLR.

looking at companies house they did have some assets stock etc, also no real accounts for 4 years

Very stupid on the part of JLR. The existance of Suffolk Sportscars did not take 1 penny of business away from Jaguar and gave them a lot of free publicity. I'm a Jaguar owner but this and other issues would make me think twice about buying another JLR product. I like so much about the car but I have become disillusioned with both the dealer and JLR.

As a long time owner of Suffolk cars ( I've had 3 ) and being quite involved on a personal basis with the Directors, I have found the whole event quite sad however that's that and we must look forward. A new company "Suffolk Classic Services" is going to look after the servicing and provision of spare parts for the SS100 and C Types but on a very much reduced size after all they only built around 350 SS100's over 26 years and they are scatered all around the world so the demand in the UK will not be vast.
As for JLR, well the Jaguar arm is now IMHO a pathetic relic of a once great car company. They built some of the most iconic cars in the world and over different periods had some of the worlds fastest cars but now, if you don't notice the leaper on the boot lid you could be looking at a Vauxhall or a Ford they are so non individual so I will continue to enjoy my SS100 and it's wonderful XK engine until HMG decrees that I'm no longer allowed to drive it.

I think that two things have killed individuality in modern cars.

1) The corporate obsession in making all models have the corporate look, but at the same time making most SUV's look the same.

2) The inexplicable growth in SUV ownership, right up to the ridiculous barges made by Audi, Mercedes, BMW and Porsche.

And the inexorable increase in footprint, when roads stay the same, car parking spaces stay the same.....

Then people who are barely competent to drive, get a huge car with a touch screen and are incapable of doing much with it other than drive in a straight line, expecting the hoi polloi to get out of the way.

The best example of this, I watched from the top deck of a double decker in Devon, when the woman in the SUV coming the other way was so incapable of reversing that we stood for maybe fifteen minutes, as she attempted to reverse.

Each to his own, but unless you live right out in the sticks and need the high ground clearance and 4WD this is quite baffling to me. I also have found that the drivers of SUVs over here seem much more aggressive behind the wheel, maybe as a result of the sense of security they get from being in seemingly invincible cars.

I have a “ridiculous barge” made by Mercedes as my everyday car, why? Because it’s incredibly useful, it carries a huge amount of stuff to/from the garden centre, DIY store, refuse tip etc. We have 13 (no that’s not a typing error) grandchildren so it’s regularly used in 7 seater mode. I do accept that some people have big SUVs but don’t know how to drive them properly but I think it’s a shame that every SUV driver gets tarred with the same brush. My SWMBO drives my Merc. SUV regularly and has no problem handling it, it’s probably a case of confidence. I don’t see van drivers berated for the size of their vehicles taking up road space and my Merc. is smaller than a lot of vans. Perhaps I should start a campaign “SUV Drivers are people too”?

Steve, it sounds like you need a Winnebago to me...

Can you imagine the abuse that would generate , mind you we have two more grandkids on the way so maybe....
15 grandkids sounds crazy but SWMBO has four sons from her previous marriage and I have two, so six sons producing 15 kids is only (!) 2 1/2 each.

p.s. I’m trying to get Christmas abolished