I took my 2022 P450 in for its 4 year service yesterday and found out that my dealership has stopped selling Jaguars and is only dealing with Land Rovers. Furthermore once my warranty ends in March of next year they will no longer service Jaguars, leaving me with a 4 hour drive one-way to the next nearest Jaguar dealer (if they are even still in business, which I haven't checked yet). Thanks a pants load Jaguar! How did that transistion to EVs go for you, you gutless cowards!?
I've definitely purchased my last JLR vehicle and may well get rid of this one if I can't find an independent service option nearby after March of 2027.

 

Start looking NOW.

 

It’s hard to be a dealer when there are no cars to sell. If the EV models come on line, there may be a future, but this gap between ICE and EV production is a devastating blow for the dealership model, and ergo, for legacy ICE car owners.

I don’t think we need to panic though. There’s so much parts crossover baked into Land/Range Rovers and the F-Type, for a couple of decades now, that parts and maintenance should be relatively easy. I don’t think any indie shop that works on Rovers with any modicum of seriousness should have trouble working on the F.

And hey, you may be doing better better than me, because my other car is an Alfa Romeo, another “on the ropes” marque, so I’ve got two to worry about! I lost my in-town AR dealer years ago, and have 1.15hr drive for factory service. Thankfully, I’ve scarcely needed it, but it’s nice knowing it’s there.

Still, the F is not the best car to have if you don’t live in a metro area, I suppose.

 

Part of the shift to go much farther up-market with their EV was reducing the number of dealers. They said at the time that only some JLR dealerships would continue to carry both lines, so it's no surprise that some here are going to end up without local Jaguar dealer support. A quick comparison between searches for "Land Rover dealers near me" and "Jaguar dealers near me" shows 12 versus 6. It seems to include some independents, but it's pretty clear that Range Rover sales have been holding up the JLR tent around here. Even the dealership in San Francisco is no longer listed for Jaguar.

 

Local dealer only has F-Pace to sell... and the five F-Types they have received in the last couple of months (I bought one of those)... Yesterday, when I took my car for the engine cover replacement, they told me that they have received the last three F-Types. One convertible and two coupe. The rest is just F-Pace.

I do hope Jaguar turns this around. We love the brand.

 

So far I still have 2 full fledge JLR dealers in my city. It seems in Canada we have not been affected in the same ways as the US (at least not yet), likely because there were far less dealers to begin with.

I filled out a survey yesterday that Jaguar sent me. I set a low score around the question about whether I would recommend Jag to someone, and I wrote them to say that their current direction/uncertainty is the reason. I said this as someone who loves their cars and the brand (what's left of it).

 

While the number of dealers is a JLR decision, what the remaining dealers do with their franchise is entirely up to them as independent businesses. You have no doubt noticed that some dealers get rave reviews while others are crap, same thing. If they can't make money on service it won't happen, just like trying to sell upmarket EV's. Hope you find an indie as the cars are well worth keeping.

 

A car company trying to move on from 150 year old technology is a "gutless coward" ? Do you still have horse dealers in your town, or have they all turned into gutless cowards also?

 

My Jaguar/Land Rover dealer is now just a Land Rover dealer regarding sales. BUT they continue and will continue servicing Jaguars, new or old…my 20 year old X-Type has a service appointment coming up. It is strange that this sort of client service seems beyond most dealerships, especially since a major part of the Land Rover mechanicals and electronics are shared by our Jaguars.

 

I thought that was the expectation. That the many which are now only LR dealers for new sales still often sell used Jags and still service jags too. That's the case for two near me which became LR only

 

Yes, that's what I recall hearing in the announcements. My local dealer seems to have done enough volume of both that it's listed still as Jaguar sales. I count myself as lucky that I trust my dealer for service, since many do not. I have a good relationship with my service advisor. Their labor rate is high, but everything is expensive here. They don't pad the labor and the work is done to my satisfaction. Over the counter parts cost more than over the 'net, but I can choose where I order what.

 

My other car is an Alfa Stelvio that was serviced by the same dealership as my Jaguar inasmuch as they also sold Alfas, Maseratis, Rolls Royce, Porche, Buick, Mercedes--yeah, it's a big dealership. Anyway, my nearest Alfa service department is also 4 hours from me now that they're stopped selling Alfas and Maseratis. My choice of vehicles of late has not been the best, I guess.

 

Yes, we do still have horse dealers in my area, one only 1/2 half mile from my house. In case you missed it horses as a common form of transportation were not replaced with automobiles because of climate warming hysteria or government mandate, rather thru technological advances and personal choices. So yes, I believe Jaguar management as a whole are gutless cowards who folded under the NWO push to EVs and over reacted. I would rate Jaguar management right up there with Boeing insofar as being destructively incompetent.

 

Same with the dealership in Portland and the service department is pleased when they have Jaguars arrive for service and their attention to detail has not diminished since they took care of my first F-Type back in 2020.

 

I don’t know if jag management are cowards, but they certainly aren’t smartly brave. What they are doing is bold, but not smart.

That Ian Callum interview someone posted recently was interesting. I agree with his comments in that interview. If they had positioned themselves above the price point of BMW/Audi in a way that gave them the budget to differentiate their offerings with some exciting designs they would have been fine. Add onto that a 7 year warranty to show confidence (kinda like Hyundai did), this was probably all that was needed to set them up for success moving forward, keep Jaguar special and it’s own thing…That’s why they were successful in the past, they weren’t trying to be like everyone else…

 

The short answer is "yes". ICE technology has been advanced to the point of incredible mpg and nearly zero emissions. EV technology is, frankly, not ready for prime time yet. Or have you not been paying attention?

 

If one were to pay attention where I am, you'd see that EVs are indeed ready for prime time. I can't run even the shortest errand around here without seeing a handful.

Until the charging infrastructure is built out a bit more, HEV and PHEV would be more versatile, but unless I were going on a multistate vacation an EV would be more practical by far than my F-Type.

 

they have many in Connecticut in all colors with metal pipe upgraded, whatever taste they have it

 

While I sympathize with OP's issue, one could consider that given the abysmal service level at Jaguar dealerships, their disappearance may not be such a big problem.
Getting parts might be annoying though.

 

Who buys an F-Type for practicality? Though I admit it's the perfect practical family car - for my family.