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A blue industrial robot arm working alongside automated tooling on a factory production line.
The Numbers

Four Thousand Jobs, and None of Them on the Line

Jaguar Land Rover confirmed the cuts on Monday. They are voluntary, they are salaried and management, and they are non-production. This paper said on Saturday that the thing to watch was which functions. That is the answer, and it is not the one the week's reporting had prepared people for.

Rows of new cars parked in a distribution lot.
The Long View

The Complexity Was Supposed to Be the Advantage

Porsche's operating margin went from 14.5 percent to 0.3 in a year. Volkswagen Group deliveries in China fell 37 percent in a quarter, in a market down 20 percent overall. Some investors have concluded the group is not fixable, and the interesting question is what fixing it would require.