IT'S BEEN A BAD YEAR

“To lose one... may be regarded as a misfortune.

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To lose both looks like carelessness.” In Wilde's script, it was parents. For Jaguar Land Rover, it was, at various times of the year, its brands. Yes, both. Jaguar sales ended in the UK and most other places. That's a deliberate reset before the new electric super GT, previewed by the Type 00, arrives in 2026. Just before the Type 00 unveil there was a car-free 'new brand' advert, kicking up an astonishing kerfuffle that stretched to breaking point the maxim that all publicity is good publicity. The ads androgynous actors in coloured lycra infuriated all the woke-averse gammons. Odd really, since most of them are old enough that in their youths they'd have been wigging out to early 1970s glam rock - key look: coloured lycra, androgyny.