An older Jaguar parked overnight at a dealership outside of Boston burned to the ground last month and brought 18 other new Jags, Land Rovers, Range Rovers, and Jeeps down with it.
The news was first reported on September 22 in The Boston Globe and revisited last week. Sometime before 1 a.m. at Herb Chambers’s Jaguar Land Rover dealership in Sudbury, Massachusetts—about 20 miles west of downtown Boston—a fire started in a 2004 XJ8 and quickly spread. Strangely enough, this particular XJ8 was on the lot to undergo repairs to previous fire damage, although it’s unclear how the car had suffered the prior damage. Sudbury fire chief William Miles said there was no evidence of foul play or arson and that the fire originated within the car. Many of the cars were burned so badly that all firefighters could identify were seat frames.
“When the news media arrived, they were looking for an arson story, but that wasn’t the case,” Miles told us. “It was clear it was a mechanical failure.”
Some of the 19 cars were customer vehicles, and currently it’s unclear whether one or multiple insurance companies will pay out the estimated $750,000 in damages. Chambers, who owns 54 dealerships in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and took in nearly $2 billion in sales last year, isn’t too concerned.
“The good news is nobody got hurt, and they’re just cars,” he told the Globe.
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Chambers is lucky he didn’t have his 1995 McLaren F1 or his 1972 Ferrari 365GTB/4 Daytona Spider on the property, as he sometimes does for the Cars and Coffee meetups he hosts at his dealerships.
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