Gerry McGovern, 69, the chief creative officer, was said to have been “escorted out of the office”. The industry publication Autocar is reporting that he was asked to leave the firm on Monday.
A spokesperson for JLR declined to comment. McGovern could not be reached for comment.
D’ye think it was because he gave his password to the hackers?
Just making sure he didn’t copy nothing.
I would think it’s more because he oversaw the development of a weird car that looked nothing like a Jag and tried to sell it to people via an ad with no car but dozens of sullen transes, Africans, Chinese etc.
The chief exec should resign too, of course.
I don’t think Jag is salvageable anyway – my dad had them in the 80s, 90s, and 00s, and they were shite all the way through.
I tried to convince him to go Mercedes (or perhaps Lexus) but he never did.
tried to sell it to people via an ad with no car but dozens of sullen transes, Africans, Chinese etc.
Indeed.In car ads one’s supposed to want to be the people associated with the car… That’s like trying to sell Nikes with a cripple in a wheelchair.
He studied at Lanchester Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art
Mmm… All the memorable “great” car designs were done by engineers. They assembled the power unit, running gear etc according to use, then wrapped a bodyshell around them to conform to the aerodynamics of the time. Function driving design. Where design has driven function, their mostly forgettable.
Look at the two cars in the photos. The SS is a symphony in metal. You know exactly what each bit of it does. The 00? It’s an electric car so what does the front 1/3 of it do? It looks like a pill box on wheels. Why? In 50 year’s time it won’t even look quaint.
Strange firm. They make the wonderful Land Rover but make it so badly that its reliability figures are a nightmare.
As they say in Oz: if you want to go into the Outback drive a Land Rover. If you want to come back drive a Toyota.