Car Brand Jaguar Rebrands, Completely Misses The Mark, Internet Goes Wild With 40 Memes
For all companies, there comes a time when a rebrand is needed—either to attract new customers, to keep the old ones interested, or both. A rebrand can take a company to unprecedented heights or unexpected lows.
Currently, vehicle company Jaguar is in the middle of rebranding, and so far, it seems that their case is the latter one. It’s all because people online aren’t satisfied with the so-called “wokeness” that the brand is trying to push with their ad, in which they don’t even show a single car.

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Right? It looks like an O that needs to see a specialist about a suspicious growth.
Load More Replies...I hate the trend for minimalist logos and logo less brand names in san serif fonts. I think traditional logos don’t look tired but show heritage, and they look classy on some brands. Some logo plates were a real work of art. Cadillac used to have ducks! Where are the ducks? If Rolls Roys ever ets rid of the spirit of ecstasy and the RR logo we in trouble. Jaguar used to produce some of the most beautiful cars. They are still nice but less elegant and classic. Even the ford era cars were cool. The XJ sedan had a “look” from the 1968 series 1 to the end in 2009 with the introduction of the 351, which is nice but boring.
Just keep in mind how much these marketing/advertising clowns are making a year. For this...
It's the same font as the last one you commented on.
Load More Replies...Dragons instead of jaguars? There's so many photos of fierce jaguars and goofy jaguars.
I have so many questions about this ad. Why do they look so serious? Don't they like the price of a jaguar? They look like my mom before breakfast. Why are they wearing those funny clothes? Why are there rocks and dirt? Is it a desert? Is it a road in the desert? Why is it pink? Is that rock a car, like Spongebob's mobile boulder? Why isn't there a car in the ad? Did they have an accident? Were they fined?...
"Look like my mom before breakfast" Made me snort, so funny!
Load More Replies...Modeling is an incredibly tough job every hour of a model's day/night. But to sell one's pride to do this?
For all companies, there comes a time when a rebrand is needed—either to attract new customers, to keep the old ones interested, or both. A rebrand can take a company to unprecedented heights or unexpected lows.
Currently, vehicle company Jaguar is in the middle of rebranding, and so far, it seems that their case is the latter one. It’s all because people online aren’t satisfied with the so-called “wokeness” that the brand is trying to push with their ad, in which they don’t even show a single car.
Back in the beginning of November of 2024, Jaguar, a luxury vehicle brand, announced they are taking all of their cars off sale to get ready for a rebrand.
I know they're gorgeous and seductive, but in the luxury sports car category, they suck. They have always been considered unreliable, which makes maintenance/repairs all the more costly. There are so many luxury sports cars on the market that consistently rank higher, why waste your money on some vehicle they can't even pronounce properly. The American ja-gwaar is closer to the Belizean pronunciation.
LOL Blaming high grocery and housing costs on a stupid jaguar ad...and pretending dumb ads haven't existed since the industrial revolution,. And pretending that the advertising agency employee making 80k a year is the parasite on civilization, not the billionaires and oligarchs.
Load More Replies...Whether or not Jaguar survives as a brand, this seems like the kind of move that is going to be discussed in college cl asses for marketing. Right up there with stuff like New Coke.
New Coke was a brilliant misdirect so that people wouldn't notice they switched "classic coke" from real sugar to high fructose corn syrup. They just needed a diversion and to have classic off the market for six months
Load More Replies...Well said. And, not just @ Jaguar, I’ve worked for a couple dozen companies and consulted with dozens of clients worldwide, and it’s ubiquitous - particularly in larger organizations. Rarely adds value or drives growth, instead almost always creates more cost, time waste and, sadly, cynicism amongst those who do real work on behalf of real clients, products and needed functions.
Blaming advertising for "wasting money" and rising costs is the equivalent of blaming lawyers for ruining society. The louder someone insists on it, the more you know they actually have no idea of how things actually work.
Load More Replies...things aren't expensive because companies hire advertising companies ya k**b, they've been spending fortunes on advertising since BEFORE the mad men era. Prices are high because it raises profits that go to the owners. For crying out loud, do y'all really not remember that bad ads have existed for more than the past five minutes?
I'm thinking of the service workers we depend on every day and night, from grocery baggers and delivery workers to home caregiver and nurses, and how most of them are a couple of paychecks away from homelessness. Welcome to the Upside Down World.
Now, the day has come, and the rebrand is here. Starting from 2026, the company will only be manufacturing and selling electric cars. With this news, they also launched a new logo, marketing slogans and an ad showing it all off.
In this 30-second video, there are diverse people shown in bright colors, with slogans like ‘break moulds,’ ‘create exuberant,’ and probably the main one, ‘copy nothing’ displayed on the screen. At the end of it, there is a new logo shown – “JaGUar”, with seamlessly blended upper and lower case characters in visual harmony. Interestingly, for an ad from a car company, there are no cars shown.
I just wish I had curly enough hair to get that haircut with a bite taken out of it.
Have you seen rich people fashion? They like dressing like an expensive telly tubby.
Point taken. I think I'll stick with my low class jeans and a shirt that fits.
Load More Replies...At least Nissan AKA Datsun only went from 3D classic to 2D ugly logo. But that looks minor now. Thanks Jaguar.
TIL Datsun was a brand under Nissan. I didn't realize that.
Load More Replies...This is why I stick by Japan cars 😂 tradition is honour and quality doesn’t need rebranding (I’m a Subaru fan 😝)
Peep, Overall, I like Subarus, but they have had their ups and downs as well regarding quality. Over the years - changes in ownership and partnerships with other companies. You can google articles on model years folks recommend avoiding. The Outbacks have more road noise than I like but they are kind of fun to drive.
Load More Replies...Brand recognition, true. Why, I'll never know. There's always been so many much better luxury sports cars on the market.
The latter “flaw” is one of the reasons why the rebrand wasn’t met with much enthusiasm. Even Elon Musk tried “roasting” them for this by tweeting on his platform, “Do you sell cars?”. The Jaguar brand didn’t give in to the billionaire’s “roast,” and suggested he come to Miami on December 2nd and see their new lineup. But Elon wasn’t the only one making this point online.
This wasn’t the only issue people had with the rebrand. One of the other heavily talked about issues was that this new brand look didn’t represent its actual customer, which sounds kind of ironic seeing that the company is rebranding to be more inclusive.
If Jaguar had a shred of commonsense, they would issue a statement telling us something was in the air vents that made them all crazy, but the problem has been corrected and they're going back to normal.
Woketard Gay or faux-liberal chick - one or the other produced and delivered this dreadfully ugly baby.
What this claim means is that basically, the company that owns Jaguar, Tata motors, isn’t British, so they lost a sense of how a British brand like Jaguar should look, thereby taking away its heritage. The company was created in 1922, but made its name when they started manufacturing eye-catching sports cars, and ever since, they have remained a luxury brand.
Luxury is something that not everyone can have, something that is limited to a certain group of people. So, when Jaguar now strives to be more inclusive, it’s understandable why some people are displeased.
If it’s attainable by more people from different walks of life, luxury (which is also sometimes linked with British, especially royal British culture) is not the same anymore. Simply said, the target audience isn’t reached with this ad.
Do all those people in the ad have a jaguar? They look like they want to file a complaint.
Y'all know the Board had to sign off on this. If I was an investor, I wouldn't be voting for them the next time. In the meantime, I'd be drinking and crying.
I can't believe it got through all the work to create this without a few people asking WTF. Is everyone in their Marketing dept blind and insane?
They probably told themselves "all publicity is good publicity" and are now proud " everybody is talking about them".
Load More Replies...SOOO the entire marketing department are bicyclists who don't own cars because they hate cars?
Nissan' s failed Inifiniti introduction 1989-1990 was the worst advertising campaign in automotive history..... Jaguar: "Hold my Bud Light"
One of the worst was the ‘new’ coke- this the reason for Coca-Cola Classic
You know damn well the investors are furious, and worse scared. No telling what they'll do.
Some people also had an issue with the rebrand’s slogan “copy nothing.” These critics pointed out the irony that by making the Jaguar’s logo simpler, the company essentially is copying the trend of others simplifying their logos, too.
Besides all of this, there has been a bit of transphobic discourse too, especially on X. Without giving them too much attention, we can simply say that the rhetoric some of the critics use is unwarranted, no matter how much they don’t like the ad.
All of these (and probably some others we didn’t catch) criticisms forced the people behind the rebrand to defend their idea. In an interview with Financial Times, managing director of Jaguar, Rawdon Glover, said the intended message of the ad had been lost in social media’s “blaze of intolerance” and denied that it was supposed to be a “woke” statement.
I'm glad I'm too poor to have ever owned one. I'm saving myself a ton of embarrassment right now.
Always have been in a way. Jaguar always said to me, there goes a rich dude wasting his money on maintainence and repairs.
It DOES seem like an Onion article doesn't it. If it wasn't so widely covered and so late in the year I might think it was an April Fool's joke
Load More Replies...Forbes is painting this in a good light, but their stocks dropped due to their "woke" message. Investors are fleeing. Enough liberal investors could turn this around, but there's much better stocks to choose.
What even is woke about this? It's just alien and uncomfortable. I don't see anything about systemic racism or marginalization or any of that. Just...people looking sad, wrapped in Lycra.
Load More Replies...He also added that they simply don’t want their brand to look like any other, as it would drown between all of them. Basically, they wanted to move away from traditional automotive stereotypes.
Sadly, the rebrand didn’t work as intended. Instead, people online are either recreating how they think the ad should have looked or are simply roasting it with hilarious memes and reactions.
Well, at this point it doesn’t seem that Jaguar is going to back out from what they have planned. So, we’ll have to wait and see whether this rebrand will be the death of Jaguar, as many netizens are predicting, or not. Only time will tell.
While that happens, make sure to scroll down to see the reactions and memes we talked about.
My dad was an master mechanic, he needed to test drive a Jag late in the day and just brought it home overnight. Me of course was drooling over it and he even let me drive it for a few minutes. He said as far as luxury cars go the only thing worse than a Jaguar is a DeLorean, that Jags are always in the shop for one problem or another. So I have a VW lol
Can confirm. Ngl, it's a sexy car, but the mechanic saw it more than I did. Sold it & bought a Chavelle 😉
Load More Replies...And the Detroit 3 STILL are getting their asses handed to them by Japan, reliability-wise. Deming tried to help, and was dismissed. IMO we have gone past the limit of our abilities. Hell, the techs don't even understand them.
Everytime I see these meme I think it's David Tennants Doctor chucking Matt Smith out the window
Detroit: "Why won't anyone buy our small cars?" "Hey, I know, same crappy quality, name change"...."Brilliant!"
I suggest that they gained their marketing 'experience' from being influencers on social media and are therefore clueless about business. Go woke, go broke!
They should go back to their original name, SS cars . . . Oh. wait . . .
Living in Ireland, we get both UK and Irish ads. It makes me laugh that the Brits are all "hyoon-day" and Ireland is pure "hi-oon-die"!
Load More Replies...It's pronounced "Jag-wahr" in America because it's named after an American animal whose name is brought to us via Spanish. Doctor Who calling a fajita, "faj-it-a" instead of "fa-heet-a" is kinda endearingly silly ("oh, those Brits!"). Car dealerships in America calling it a "jag-you-ahr" in an otherwise American accent makes people want to laugh at how pretentious and stupid you are.
It is like some people who have problems if their name is not pronounced precisely how they like it.. I kinda understand them a bit, but also who cares if someone pronounce my name differently it's not like it diminish my value or smth. I am still me. I trust myself not how someone call me.
Jag-yoo-ar isn't exactly correct lol I mean, you don't say peng-yoo-in or ig-yoo-wanna.
As an American who moved to Britland from a state that still occasionally has wild jaguars, I remain highly amused everytime Britons tell me I'm pronouncing the word wrong.
Load More Replies...I dunno what I'm missing, but when I do a reverse image search, it comes up with a comic about Hamburgers. Where do the Nazis come in?
Load More Replies...I read an article claiming that at root, they're trying to go for logos that can auto-resize on all devices, hence the extremely simple lines. Still... yech.
Ya, I'd hate to be the head of Jaguar's marketing team right now. This might be the worst re-branding I have ever seen. All Jaguar needed to do was make the same cars, only more reliable. Where this ad campaign came from, nobody will ever know.
It really isn’t helping that everyone in the photo looks grim enough to be a proof of life in a technicolor hostage situation. Just…egads it’s just so awful it feels like it has to be purposeful…but why outside of massive amounts of d***s would they do this? Nutter Butter has done some really weird stuff on TikTok and has everyone talking about a largely forgotten cookie and people are buying them. But it’s not going to work for a luxury car.
Load More Replies...Let’s move on to discuss the fuel injection system of the 900 series as compared to the 1973 Saab 96 LS.
Load More Replies...100 years of brand recognition, to the point you can leave the text off the logo and half the people would recognize it. Nah, throw it in the pisser. There are companies that would kill to get that.
I feel it's worth pointing out that Jaguar is a car company which currently doesn't make any cars (they've phased out their combustion engine vehicles, planned an electric vehicle but it had some sort of problem so they've had to cancel it as well, and are at least a year away from any new design being ready for manufacturing). So this ad campaign isn't even selling something. It's completely unnecessary, as well as being bad
Maybe they can start making clothes and ditch the cars.
Load More Replies...It was like watching those hilarious balenciaga ai parody videos. To this day I have no idea what balenciaga is..... I just know it was made and perpetuated by sacrificing a pretentious art snob a day... At the blood altar you find in the middle of all close gate communities of the ultra rich.
Must be the same marketing team that did the ads for Gillette and Budweiser. I call it Suicidal Marketing/Kamikaze Adverts
This is Jaguar's newest advertisement - released two days ago: Jaguar-674...55d3c5.jpg
Ya, I'd hate to be the head of Jaguar's marketing team right now. This might be the worst re-branding I have ever seen. All Jaguar needed to do was make the same cars, only more reliable. Where this ad campaign came from, nobody will ever know.
It really isn’t helping that everyone in the photo looks grim enough to be a proof of life in a technicolor hostage situation. Just…egads it’s just so awful it feels like it has to be purposeful…but why outside of massive amounts of d***s would they do this? Nutter Butter has done some really weird stuff on TikTok and has everyone talking about a largely forgotten cookie and people are buying them. But it’s not going to work for a luxury car.
Load More Replies...Let’s move on to discuss the fuel injection system of the 900 series as compared to the 1973 Saab 96 LS.
Load More Replies...100 years of brand recognition, to the point you can leave the text off the logo and half the people would recognize it. Nah, throw it in the pisser. There are companies that would kill to get that.
I feel it's worth pointing out that Jaguar is a car company which currently doesn't make any cars (they've phased out their combustion engine vehicles, planned an electric vehicle but it had some sort of problem so they've had to cancel it as well, and are at least a year away from any new design being ready for manufacturing). So this ad campaign isn't even selling something. It's completely unnecessary, as well as being bad
Maybe they can start making clothes and ditch the cars.
Load More Replies...It was like watching those hilarious balenciaga ai parody videos. To this day I have no idea what balenciaga is..... I just know it was made and perpetuated by sacrificing a pretentious art snob a day... At the blood altar you find in the middle of all close gate communities of the ultra rich.
Must be the same marketing team that did the ads for Gillette and Budweiser. I call it Suicidal Marketing/Kamikaze Adverts
This is Jaguar's newest advertisement - released two days ago: Jaguar-674...55d3c5.jpg
