Jaguar’s rebranding

I’m not sure, but if a rebrand involves your chief creative officer telling industry journalists that you have “not been sniffing the white stuff—this is real,” then you may have problems down the road.

Hallucinogenic sci-fi movie: Inside the rather bizarre relaunch of Jaguar
Hallucinogenic sci-fi movie: Inside the rather bizarre relaunch of Jaguar – Car Dealer Magazine.
Held at its Gaydon HQ, on Armistice Day, the event was hosted by Jaguar’s senior team including managing director Rawdon Glover and JLR’s chief creative officer Gerry McGovern…the event felt like a hallucinogenic sci-fi movie where the presenters were only allowed to speak in marketing babble…

Jaguar’s passionate team spoke for most of the day about how they plan to ‘delete ordinary’ and ‘live vivid’. Whatever that means…

Jaguar’s rebirth will be electric ‘always’, said the executives. It’s confident that by the time the first of three new cars arrives in 2026, the market will have ‘shifted significantly’ towards EVs. So much so, it’s betting the house on the trio it has in the pipeline that they will be enough to reinvigorate the brand.

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Wasn’t “live vivid” a reference to LSD in the 60s?

And Waymo uses mostly (almost all) Jaguar vehicles. I am surprised that they aren’t using that as part of their new branding in the EV arena.

Reminds me of former Steelcase and Ford CEO Jim Hackett blathering about “fitness”.

Really weird to stand down a company, for a year or more. Can’t help but wonder if it’s all PR to keep people in line, until Tata is done using them.

Steve