I’ve done the first adopter blues. Since I had one of the very first Jag F-Paces, it didn’t take long to suffer the consequences. They got this car out as fast as they could, omitting obvious things it needed. The big one was the rear springs. They would slide over (de-center) at the top and make weird squeaking noises. I was the first guy to crawl under the car and get detailed pics of up into the spring areas and post it online on the F-Pace forum so that other F-Pace owners could show the idiot service depts what was going on. Jag finally after months made a no-brainer cup that has to be installed so it could not do that.
How does a car manufacturer make a million cars and just not do that when you know it needs it? Really low of the company. And numerous little things that had to be re-glued, or redesigned. And we were lucky. There were many others that had way more issues like tubes getting kinked etc. Basically a lot was haphazard rushed assembly. A guy I didn’t meet but lived near me had his F-Pace in the shop every time I went down there. He was so ticked and finally made them buy it back.
But Jag (Tata) is a huge company and it really showed they rushed this car to market and thought they would sell it, and just get it out there and let it sell itself. Fix the problems eventually with the warranty. Crappy move.
While it was crappy, my wife really liked the car. When we sat in a new 21’, the interior was like 1000 times nicer. She’s placed her order and its been almost 5 months and no build date yet. Jury’s out if she’ll change her mind if we don’t get a build date soon.
With Fisker I dunno, it seems like he’s pushing the warranty really hard, and lots of prototypes. Not letting anyone drive or review the car until late in the game. Maybe trying to sort out any issues? He’s designed a number of cars, not his first rodeo so hopefully this car will be pretty good out of the gate with Magna building them.
I also had one of the first runs of i3’s, (lots of issues, nothing major)
one of the first Buick Enclaves (excellent car no issues)
one of the first Buick LaCrosse’s (excellent car no issues)
And then there’s just plain good and bad luck