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They're owned by Tata Motors now, the manufacturer of the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car.
by petre 4y ago
They're owned by Tata Motors now, the manufacturer of the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car.
- unmole 4y agoSo, does that make JLR low status?
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoThe association with the "cheap" brand is just a flimsy justification to be used by a bunch of Americans who drive 4Runners and Pilots (mostly, there's probably the odd Explorer in there) and have a desire to feel superior over people who "flaunt" their wealth or use it "irresponsibly". All these vehicles cost in the same ballpark (or at least have large overlapping ranges) so roughly all the same people have access to them. It's not about status. It's about tribe signaling.
- unmole 4y agoA cursory search points to a Range Rover being almost thrice as expensive as a 4Runner or a Pilot.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoSorry, I didn't give enough shits to realize we were comparing to the Range Rover and not Landrover SUVs generally. In that case the 4Runner was the wrong comparison point since the Range Rover more directly competes with the LX600 (86k MSRP). I'm not going to dig through the options lists to figure out where the discrepancy is. My point still stands. Expensive Toyota SUV buying people like to shit on expensive European SUV buying people not because they are of substantially different means but because they are of substantially different tribes.
- dewey 4y agoPorsche, Lamborghini, Bentley and Bugatti are also owned by Volkswagen. That doesn't make them any less expensive.
- petre 4y agoExpensive yes. Reliable, dunno. I have an Audi, also a Volkswagen group car. It's fun, sporty, feels "expensive" but it has the worst reliability of all the cars I've owned, on par with Fiat. I use to joke that the four circles represent the amount spent on maintenance and repairs.