Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath

Brit luxury automaker Jaguar Land Rover has reported devastating preliminary Q3 results that lay bare the cascading consequences of a crippling cyberattack, revealing wholesale volumes collapsed more than two-fifths year-on-year. Wholesale units tumbled to just 59,200 in the three months ended December 31, the third quarter of …

[elsergiovolador]

Terminally Confused Squad

wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath

But on the other hand you save big on hiring unwashed and expensive British talent.

[Gordon 10]

Re: Terminally Confused Squad

Nope. The vast majority will be permies already on the payroll....that you have to continue paying...

Its just the little mum and dad operations supplying parts and expertise that have probably already gone to the wall and not seen a whiff of the 1.5Bn incompetence bailout.

[elsergiovolador]

Re: Terminally Confused Squad

They have outsourced their IT, Sherlock.

[tmTM]

and...........

and the aftermath of burning the Jaguar brand to the ground

and the continued problems created by the terrible engines they produce

They're competing with Ford Europe for the most incompetently run auto manufacturer, and it's a hotly contested race.

[ComicalEngineer]

and there's more...

When Ford owned Jaguar they produced the Ford derived Ingenium engines which were, and still are crap.

Timing chain failures (stretch / snap), DPFs clogging, weak turbos, injectors failing, oil dilution caused by DPFs not regenerating properly (DPF badly sited and doesn't get hot enough to regen properly), injector bolts snap.

The 2.0 is worse than the 3.0 and both petrol and Diesel engines are unreliable.

If you snap one of the very brittle injector bolts then you're in for a £2,500 bill. My tame mechanic won't go near the Ingenium engines if they have snapped a bolt.

What ever did happen to "grace, space and pace"?

Meanwhile one of our neighbours has an XJ40 with the Jaguar AJ6 engine that has done 180,000 miles.

[werdsmith]

Re: and there's more...

Pre 2019 Ingenium, unforgivably bad especially 2.0D (D200). Since then they are improved.

Of course the likeliest way to avoid trouble is to buy Toyota.

[elsergiovolador]

Re: and there's more...

I think the idea was that the engine should be snappy, and that somehow got lost in translation.

[Anonymous Coward]

No....No.....No.............

Quote: ".... JLR got £1.5 billion in financial support from the UK government ...."

Repeat after me: "...financial support from THE UK TAXPAYER..."

Fantastic deal for the foreign owners.............

Lots more foreign owners FAILING to implement basic security.......and expecting THE UK TAXPAYER to pick up the slack.

Why do we put up with this?

I think we should be told!

[elsergiovolador]

Re: No....No.....No.............

Probably incompetent and self-serving MPs still think JLR is British.

[Anonymous Coward]

JLR

Of course, nothing to do with a very inferior product.

Nooooo.

[Anonymous Coward]

The cynic in me wonders if the annoucement of 'trouble at mill' is just a convienient way to do a share buy back at budget prices for the board.

Or some other form of business accounting slight of hand

[Anonymous Coward]

stock buy back

JLR as we should all know, is part of the huge conglomerate, TATA motors, and their shares are traded on the Bombay Exchange (BSE) and NYSE I think that your premise is while a nice one, wrong.

[nobody who matters]

"Jaguar Land Rover has reported devastating preliminary Q3 results that lay bare the cascading consequences of a crippling cyberattack...."

Perhaps they will put more money and effort into keeping their systems secure in the future.

Oh look! a flying pig!

[Anonymous Coward]

Must be an interesting one to explain…

…for their IT guy at his next job interview.

(I think I'd just lie and say I was running the IT for ISIS during that time)

[The Bobster]

Re: Must be an interesting one to explain…

Would you say you'd be venturing into a zone of danger?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Must be an interesting one to explain…

> Would you say you'd be venturing into a zone of danger?

Not at all. It will certainly look a lot better on my CV than "I was the guy who caused £0.0021 billion¹ in losses to my last employer"

¹ "2.1 million, Mr AC, that is a lot of money!"

"Not *that* billion, sir"