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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Jaguar Pick-Up Truck -The Latest News

 

Hot on the trail of a tow vehicle for our soon to be purchased travel trailer, we were checking out a lead at our local Jaguar store.  We didn’t know if there was such a truck, but if there were, a Jag pickup would be worth checking out. 

We sheepishly snuck our old land yacht into the lot and parked next to a large Land Rover.  Later we learned that the custom built Land Rover had a window sticker of $250,000. We were extra careful with our doors.

We entered a building full of white vehicles with their lights left on.  The ultra-modern building was staffed by people ultra-eager to please – coffee, tea, doughnut -Sir?

The show room contained eight Land Rovers and one gorgeous Ferrari two-seater sports car. No Jaguars in sight, let alone an RV tow vehicle.

I asked our assigned representative if he had a Jaguar pick ‘em up truck in stock.  His response was slow to develop, not knowing, I suppose, if I really had any money or if I did and was joking.  

He told us it was hard to get Jaguars to stock because they all are special order and production was nearly sold out.   Only that very morning he had taken orders for three, he declared.  Hard to imagine I know, but the entire line of Jaguars will be electric next year.  Get your 2024 order in soon.

We studied each other for a short while until he remembered that he did, indeed, have a “pick ‘em up truck” in the back lot.   Sure enough, surrounded by a Bentley Coupe, a Lamborghini, a new Corvette, and a Ford Shelby stood a custom Jaguar RV Tow Vehicle, cleverly disguised as black metallic Ford F150 Lariat.    

They hemmed, we hawed. They agreed to fix a few things. We agreed that our land yacht was a bit sorry after the 9,000 mile road trip last year.  It needed tires, only one of the power windows worked and if you drove it awhile it threw the code-$$$.  

Oddly, I haven’t found the button to uncloak the Jag, but you can hear him roar when the blower kicks in…..

                                                    Custom Jag RV Tow Vehicle- Cloaking on.



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