RE: Limping Cat: Dying XJ220 Spotted

[englisharcher]

M@1975 said:

I've not read the whole thread if I'm honest... )

You didn't bother to look how old the thread was either, did you?

[okie592]

Shmee150 said:

How on earth did that happen.

alot of the UAE bubble has burst for some people, theres cars all over dubai etc like this, enzos M6s etc. there was a feature on www.wreckedexotics.com about it. its a shame but people cant keep up thier payments

[thiscocks]

those fkers have way too much cash

[HaloGen8]

thiscocks said:

those fkers have way too much cash

Wow 2 year time delay for that response.

[MycroftWard]

thiscocks said:

those fkers have way too much cash

I was harbouring a small hope that when I clicked this thread it may have contained a good news update, perhaps that the car had fallen into sympathetic hands and had been restored. Alas.

[Rude-boy]

Sadly not, just the PH "You may have been interested in this 4 years ago so we thought we'd put it at the bottom of your screen again to show advertisers how even our old topics are frequently brought back to life and that the content has a long term appeal."

Or something like that.

[Polarbert]

Rude-boy said:

Sadly not, just the PH "You may have been interested in this 4 years ago so we thought we'd put it at the bottom of your screen again to show advertisers how even our old topics are frequently brought back to life and that the content has a long term appeal."

Or something like that.

Thats what brought me here.

[eliot]

Polarbert said:

Rude-boy said:

Sadly not, just the PH "You may have been interested in this 4 years ago so we thought we'd put it at the bottom of your screen again to show advertisers how even our old topics are frequently brought back to life and that the content has a long term appeal."

Or something like that.

Thats what brought me here.

And me - Doh.

[ian_touring]

Thread eats itself to death as advert for it is spotted from within!

[pingu393]

ian_touring said:

Thread eats itself to death as advert for it is spotted from within!

Man caught in internet looping calamity is saved by flat battery .

[jim.2007]

that is so upsetting, these people who have to much money disregarding iconic things, positive they do it on purpose to rub our noses in for paying £6.60 to get 20 miles out of your car on petrol that you work hard to try and run

[Dave Hedgehog]

jim.2007 said:

that is so upsetting, these people who have to much money disregarding iconic things, positive they do it on purpose to rub our noses in for paying £6.60 to get 20 miles out of your car on petrol that you work hard to try and run

i was told by a friend who lived in the UAE that they have funny debt/borrowing laws and when things went bad after the crash some people who owed a lot of money simply left everything rather than face the consequences

[Countersteer]

This breaks my fking heart!! Still, in my mind, my most favourite shape to come out of the autmomotive world...

[williamp]

This months classic car magazine has a feature on the XJ220

[mikebrownhill]

I took this photo a few years ago in Dubai, it was in the workshop having just had a fortune spent on it including replacing the bag tanks, so it wasn't unloved, but the state it was in, exterior wise anyway, would suggest otherwise - as a lot of people have said, cars can get very dirty very quickly out here, but it doesn't always mean they aren't looked after:



And just to give you some idea of the weather, this is my old skateboard parked next a cleaner one, just when a sand storm was coming in:

[anglophile]

You have got to be kidding!? These people have far more money than brains, than to let a very rare car go to rubbish. If it could make it here to the States, I'd love to have it!

Of course, our government nannies will probably say, "No, it won't pass EPA and DOT."

[thegreenhell]

anglophile said:

You have got to be kidding!? These people have far more money than brains, than to let a very rare car go to rubbish. If it could make it here to the States, I'd love to have it!

Of course, our government nannies will probably say, "No, it won't pass EPA and DOT."

Currently eligible under Show or Display, and as soon as they're 25 years old you can import whatever you want without restriction.

[Spookedmoose]

Referring back to the XJ 220 originally posted...

I think it was this one... http://www.motormutt.com/video/DDmtt4ER2V4

In which case, it didn't end well.... :-( http://thesupercarkids.com/pimped-out-jaguar-xj220...

The perfect storm of too much money, too little taste, and employing the London Motor Museum's 'unique' modifying taste.

[s62]

Are the people in this region of the world color blind in general????

[IBDAET]

I do have a very nasty feeling the XJ220 posted at the begining of this thread is the same car as is here: http://thesupercarkids.com/pimped-out-jaguar-xj220...



Like the pickup conversion they did on a Ferrari 400 (which on the TV show got the applause of Autoficina in Chessington)its a travesty that these cars don't just get crushed rather than people like this get hold of them.