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Former Top Gear presenter Quentin Willson is among those who have signed up. He described Jaguar as “a vital part of the UK motor industry” and was keen to stress that it “accounts for 50% of all the industry’s research and development and supports 75,000 jobs, not to mention generating £4bn in exports.”
Mr Willson was joined by former Formula 1 racing driver David Coulthard, who also urged the Government to help the firm.
And there are nearly 4,000 members of our Save Jaguar Land Rover group on social networking site Facebook.
The extent of the problems facing the industry were highlighted with new figures which showed the Chinese car market had only grown 7.3% in 2008 – its smallest growth for a decade.
It had originally been hoped that emerging markets such as China and India would boost JLR sales during the credit crunch centred around North America and Europe.
