{"id":418,"date":"2010-10-17T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T14:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projectsguru.co.uk\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2010-10-17T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T14:32:15","slug":"the-jaguar-roars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"The Jaguar roars&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lazysocialbuttons\" data-float=\"left\" data-buttons=\"google,twitter,facebook\" data-twshareurl=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=418\" data-twtext=\"\" data-shareurl=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=418\" data-fbhideflyout=\"false\" data-backgroundtype=\"light\"><\/div><div id=\"attachment_419\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-419\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-419\" title=\"jaguar-xf-new-product-development\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jaguar-xf-new-product-development-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Jaguar XF - a great example of new product development success\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jaguar-xf-new-product-development-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/jaguar-xf-new-product-development.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaguar XF - a great example of new product development success<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This weekend jaguar Land Rover announced that it had reversed its threat to close one of its U.K plants and, even better, said that it would create thousands of new jobs including 1500 at it&#8217;s plant at Halewood on Merseyside.<\/p>\n<p>Barely 2 years after fears that Jaguar Land Rover might fold Q2 profits of \u00a3233 million have boosted confidence in the future of the luxury car market.<\/p>\n<p>A large part of this success is due to innovative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectsguru.co.uk\/newproductdevelopment.htm\">new product development<\/a> and in particular the success of the new XF range.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\">According  to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers\u2019 Association (ACEA),  the number of Jaguar\u2019s being registered in Western Europe in April rose  70.3 per cent year-on-year \u2013 way above any other volume manufacturer.<span> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\"><span>Jaguar have addressed one of the main concerns amongst luxury car consumers &#8211; the trade off between performance and fuel consumption. The XF does a staggering 0 &#8211; 60 m.p.h in 5.3 seconds and still manages a meagre 47 m.p.g.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\"><strong>Jaguar have demonstrated how investment in innovation and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectsguru.co.uk\/newproductdevelopment.htm\">new product development <\/a>can bring success even in the most difficult of economic climates.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\"><a href=\"maito:chris@projectsguru.co.uk\">chris@projectsguru.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectsguru.co.uk\">www.projectsguru.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\"><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/projectsguru\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_bird_us-a.png\" alt=\"Follow projectsguru on Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar addthis_pub = '';\nvar addthis_language = 'en';var addthis_options = 'email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more';\n<\/script>\n<div class=\"addthis_container\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=20\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', 'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amberhill.biz%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D418', 'The+Jaguar+roars%26%238230%3B..')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/200\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend jaguar Land Rover announced that it had reversed its threat to close one of its U.K plants and, even better, said that it would create thousands of new jobs including 1500 at it&#8217;s plant at Halewood on Merseyside. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=418\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[5,124,37,6,125,68,16,36,35,13],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-innovation","tag-pmot","tag-business","tag-customer","tag-design-process","tag-innovation","tag-jaguar","tag-manufacturing","tag-new-product-development","tag-npd","tag-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}