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“NICK IS not your typical carcompany boss,” said Bruce Blythe, a Ford executive who was involved in negotiating the original deal to buy Jaguar, about Sir Nick Scheele. Understated, unpretentious, but a consummate professional, Scheele might have been a Ford man through and through, but he proved to be a breath of fresh air for Jaguar after his appointment as chairman in 1992. Along with the introduction of several new and important models, an improvement in quality, and sweeping reforms to cut costs, he did more than anyone to safeguard the company reaching the millennium.
Scheele was also a proper car enthusiast. When he gave his wife, Ros, a Jaguar for her birthday in 1997 he had Jaguar’s range at his disposal, yet he didn’t buy an XK8 or an XJ6 but a Daimler Double-Six Series 3. Dated when still in production, never mind several years after, but its understated style, old-fashioned luxury and refinement shows he was a
