When working as chief executive for Jaguar cars in the 1970s, the ambitious young socialist befriended Madame Joska Bourgeois, who had the franchise for importing Jaguar cars into Belgium.
At the same book event in Edinburgh, Mr Prescott also revealed he now owned two Jaguar cars, living up to his "two Jags" nickname, according to the London Evening Standard.
There have been other attempts at a camera-based solution, but the new Cambridge company - InView Systems - says the solution it is developing with Jaguar Cars involves creating a virtual image in front of the driver, like a military "head up display".
The first Jaguar F-Type sports cars for customers will leave the Castle Bromwich factory in Birmingham later.
Jaguar, which sold 54, 200 cars last year, needs some of the sparkle it had during the swinging sixties.
Down 80% in the bear market, it makes an exceptional line of small, fuel-efficient cars (and also now Jaguar, which it bought from Ford in 2008).
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During the arrests, several cars were seized, including a Mercedes, Jaguar, BMW and a Bentley Rolls Royce.
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The reason automakers are going to great lengths to make lighter vehicles Jaguar even reduced the number of rivets it uses on cars is to comply with stringent new Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards.
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Vintage cars like a Ferrari 250, the E-Type Jaguar and the original Porsche 911 have always been prototypes of automotive beauty.
Jaguar Land Rover anticipates it will export more than 75% of the cars.
Jaguar said it had been "absent for too long" from making sports cars, with the last, its E-Type, made in 1975.
Now that the dollar is weak, Jaguar is piling up losses in America, its biggest market, because its cars are both expensive and dull.
The challenge engineers presented themselves, he said, was to create a nimble, affordable electric car for the North American market an unusual move for a conglomerate that was founded in India and sells no cars in the U.S. (though Tata does own both Jaguar and Land Rover).
Jaguar's revival was pinned on developing a wider product range to boost output to 200, 000 cars a year.
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