Food critic Coren slams JLR after £65k Jag stolen
FOOD critic and TV presenter Giles Coren has berated Midland carmaker Jaguar Land Rover after his new i-Pace car was stolen, claiming the tracker system would not reveal where it was.
Losing his Jag – which costs upwards of £65,000 to buy – led to a string of four-letter words in a single tweet.
Coren added: “They disabled the tracker within three minutes of nicking the car.
“Alarm, immobiliser, tracker all useless. If insurance pay up I’ll still take a fifteen grand bath and be pretty much uninsurable thereafter.”
The i-Pace website says the Secure Tracker system “uses tracking technology to alert you to an attempted theft, and signals your vehicle’s location to the relevant authorities, for a timely recovery”.
Within an hour, Jaguar’s PR department had tweeted saying: “Keen to support you... can we chat on direct message?”
To which the
father-of-two replied: “Sure.” In a reply to one comment about how it had been a good car choice, Coren replied: “It was amazing. Amazing.
“Best car I’ve ever owned. Swift as f***, basically free to run.
“Came when you whistled. But clearly can’t keep a nice car on this street.
“So I’m going second hand Octavia. See how much the ***** want to nick that.”
Coren added: “I don’t drive in town so a small electric not really any use.
“This is for long haul.
“I need a car that thieves don’t want to steal and sadly any larger electric is eminently desirable.”
Jaguar Land Rover said it cannot comment on a specific customer case but added: “Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles conform to the legislation at the time of manufacture and takes the issue very seriously working tirelessly to counter the ever-changing nature of vehicle thefts.”