2009 Jaguar XK
Discussion
Breadvan72 said:
An electric thing like that can be plugged in, and therefore can probably be unplugged in some way. It doesn't, however, sound like a mega stupid thing to have in an age in which cars are designed to be hard to see out of and to have stupid touch screens that are designed to distract the driver, and in which pedestrians step into active roads whilst Instagramming.
One such pedestrian in Pimlico said many rude and shouty words at the back of the Jag the other day after I used the horn to encourage her not to die or at least get slightly squished under those grey alloy wheels, or to have the clasps on her fake Vuitton bag scratch the paint on the bonnet as she was rolled along it. None of those things happened to her, but she did not much like having her Instagramming interrupted.
I have much fun doing just that in various trucks, airhorns for the win!One such pedestrian in Pimlico said many rude and shouty words at the back of the Jag the other day after I used the horn to encourage her not to die or at least get slightly squished under those grey alloy wheels, or to have the clasps on her fake Vuitton bag scratch the paint on the bonnet as she was rolled along it. None of those things happened to her, but she did not much like having her Instagramming interrupted.
I just wish I had airhorns on my daily this morning when I only just managed to avoid rear ending a cyclist with no lights on a dark lane this morning at half five the flecking idiot
Breadvan72 said:
An electric thing like that can be plugged in, and therefore can probably be unplugged in some way. It doesn't, however, sound like a mega stupid thing to have in an age in which cars are designed to be hard to see out of and to have stupid touch screens
Unfortunately no one has found a way to bypass these annoying bits of plastic turd
I have just returned from a business trip to Jersey, on which I took my 1962 Lancia. That was fun, but this morning, setting off to London before dawn, temperature zero degrees C, I appreciated instant start, heated seat, heated steering wheel, rapid defrosting, and rear fog lights. On other threads, I usually refer to my Jaguar as "my boring modern car". I do it an injustice.
Breadvan72,
In my over 50 years of driving automobiles which has probably spanned 30 or more cars, my 2010 XKR is without question the best automobile I have ever owned. I have nearly 180,000 miles on the big cat, still looks and drives like new, and is still a pleasure to drive everyday and to look back at everytime I leave her. With nearly 600hp (pulleyed and tuned), it has been very reliable, fun at the track, and quicker than my beautiful '72 Pantera while sitting in the lap of luxury. At the incredibly low prices you can pick these car up for now, they represent a spectacular value. As for comparing it to the previous X100 model, there simply is no comparison. I also have a beautiful X100 XKR but its very harsh ride, terrible handling at speed characteristics make it so that I just can't enjoy driving it after being used to the great ride and power of the X150. I have tracked my XKR dozens of times over the past seven years and never had an issue. Are there issues? Of course, water pumps might as well be made out of paper, they break down so often, but my X100 never went a week without something breaking, and with the X150, you don't have to worry about the plastic tensioner issue that destroyed so many engines along the way. Enjoy your new ride, it's beautiful, comfortable, reliable, and a wonderful place to spend time. Enjoy!
In my over 50 years of driving automobiles which has probably spanned 30 or more cars, my 2010 XKR is without question the best automobile I have ever owned. I have nearly 180,000 miles on the big cat, still looks and drives like new, and is still a pleasure to drive everyday and to look back at everytime I leave her. With nearly 600hp (pulleyed and tuned), it has been very reliable, fun at the track, and quicker than my beautiful '72 Pantera while sitting in the lap of luxury. At the incredibly low prices you can pick these car up for now, they represent a spectacular value. As for comparing it to the previous X100 model, there simply is no comparison. I also have a beautiful X100 XKR but its very harsh ride, terrible handling at speed characteristics make it so that I just can't enjoy driving it after being used to the great ride and power of the X150. I have tracked my XKR dozens of times over the past seven years and never had an issue. Are there issues? Of course, water pumps might as well be made out of paper, they break down so often, but my X100 never went a week without something breaking, and with the X150, you don't have to worry about the plastic tensioner issue that destroyed so many engines along the way. Enjoy your new ride, it's beautiful, comfortable, reliable, and a wonderful place to spend time. Enjoy!
Breadvan72 said:
If you want to buy a car, buy a Jag
There's room in the back for a shag
There's a biscuit tin
To keep your Johnnies in
If you want to buy a car, buy a Jag
(copyright all schoolyards, the 70s)
You must be pretty limber for a man of your advanced status to manage that in the back of an XK!! There's room in the back for a shag
There's a biscuit tin
To keep your Johnnies in
If you want to buy a car, buy a Jag
(copyright all schoolyards, the 70s)
For the last two weeks I have used the XK to commute the two miles from my flat in Kennington to and from my chambers in Gray's Inn. Mostly 20 mph roads, not much traffic. 18 MPG from the five litre V8. Motorway driving: high 20s - as good as or sometimes better than my four cylinder sub two litre 1970s cars. How thinks have changed. The 6.3 litre V8 in my old Jensen Interceptor would be lucky to do 18 MPG on a cruisy motorway run, and in town the MPG was in single figures.
This Jag will be my last modern car with an internal combustion engine I will still buy petrol-engined classic cars, but my daily drivers will be electric once the Jag is sold or retired.
If someone would do a Series 1 or 2 XJ6 or an XJS with an electric motor I would be on it like a tramp on chips.
This Jag will be my last modern car with an internal combustion engine I will still buy petrol-engined classic cars, but my daily drivers will be electric once the Jag is sold or retired.
If someone would do a Series 1 or 2 XJ6 or an XJS with an electric motor I would be on it like a tramp on chips.
Breadvan72 said:
For the last two weeks I have used the XK to commute the two miles from my flat in Kennington to and from my chambers in Gray's Inn. Mostly 20 mph roads, not much traffic. 18 MPG from the five litre V8. Motorway driving: high 20s - as good as or sometimes better than my four cylinder sub two litre 1970s cars. How thinks have changed. The 6.3 litre V8 in my old Jensen Interceptor would be lucky to do 18 MPG on a cruisy motorway run, and in town the MPG was in single figures.
This Jag will be my last modern car with an internal combustion engine I will still buy petrol-engined classic cars, but my daily drivers will be electric once the Jag is sold or retired.
If someone would do a Series 1 or 2 XJ6 or an XJS with an electric motor I would be on it like a tramp on chips.
I have just completed on a merc phev and to be honest I'm staggered by the thing. This Jag will be my last modern car with an internal combustion engine I will still buy petrol-engined classic cars, but my daily drivers will be electric once the Jag is sold or retired.
If someone would do a Series 1 or 2 XJ6 or an XJS with an electric motor I would be on it like a tramp on chips.
The instant shove of the leccy motor is just boundary shifting.
Overtaking is just effortless and if i manually select a more responsive gear rather than just mashing the accelerator it is blink of an eye fast.
Yet it is clever as well I can woosh around town like a Teddy boy wearing brothel creepers, silently. They won't hear me coming now.
Next week I will see what mpg I get as this weekend it has all been about power!!!!!!!!!!
Breadvan72 said:
XJC needed!
I can appreciate that. I had a 4.2 XJC about 15 years back, the one car I wish I'd never got rid of. I used it as my daily a the time, commuting from Reading to Hammersmith. I say daily, I didn't use it every day, I had a mid-80s Rolls Royce as my other daily at the time! I would alternate between them.I ended up moving them both on, the Roller was just too thirsty, and the Jag too low geared for the M3 everyday, it was sitting at something like 4k at 80mph, I got rid of both and bought my first XJR.
But I would love to get another XJC, I just don't have the space to do it justice at the moment, it would rust away quicker than I could rust proof it sat outside in the drive.
But they are just soooo cool. Other Jaag for me would be a 420G, not the common or garden 420, the 420G. The first Jag that my parents had when I was a little kid. Bought at auction on a whim, they could only afford to run it for about 6 months, but a fabulous car.
Edited by Piersman2 on Sunday 14th February 10:16
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