My Brilliant New Job
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R30DSM said:
Thanks! Great cars, spent me first day pouring over the cars. Get to drive F-Type V8 S tomorrow, lets hope it stay dry. I will keep you posted on the day.
Nice "second day" job.Keep up the good work that is clearly going on there (what you doing?) - have a look at a few of my threads for the impressions on the V8S
J
R30DSM said:
The F-Type is brilliant. What makes this car so good is the it is the whole package you would expect from a sports car. It really does tingle those senses. It gives you an enomous sense of occasion with as much drama you wish to demand from you right foot. Well balanced, well manoured (most of the time), great driver feel, with positive feed back. Coupe to come next year, looking forward to that one!!!!!
Fantastic, as long as you don't want to carry any luggage or go shopping. bad company said:
Fantastic, as long as you don't want to carry any luggage or go shopping.
Have you ever actually used a F-Type, or are you just going on "reviews"?I had no issues with 2 weeks for 2 with the luggage set.
As well as what you can see there is a full size suit/weekday carrier in there (with two suits and 6 days of formal clothes required for M* resturants with associated shoes etc.) as well as a shoe bag with 4 trainers, 2 beach shoes and two sets of walking boots, and a whole load of other stuff (laptops, cameras, reading material etc. etc.).
Bit of a bummer of course if you need 4 seats, but perhaps you also read that it doesn't do that particularly well in a review?
- sigh*
joust said:
ave you ever actually used a F-Type, or are you just going on "reviews"?
Its a Jaguar, so the reviewers are honour bound to slag off the boot space. 
I think it must be a law somewhere.Same with the X300, all the reviews slagged off the boot without mentioning just how wide it was, there occasionally things that would drop easily into the Jag's boot that needed the seats folded down to fit into B8's MB W210 estate as they wouldn't fit between the Merc's suspension pillars.
joust said:
Some little comparisons on shopping capacity....
911 - 135l
AMV8 - 300l
DB9 - 186l
DB9 volante - 135l
Gallardo - 110l
F-Type - 200l
Fair point tho the 911 and DB9 both have rear seats which can be used assuming just 2 travelling.911 - 135l
AMV8 - 300l
DB9 - 186l
DB9 volante - 135l
Gallardo - 110l
F-Type - 200l
Mrs BC and I like to use our cars for long European tours. In the past we have used Ferrari's (355, 360 & 430 all spiders with around 250 litres of boot space), a Porsche Boxster and our TVR Chim 500 which also has a fair sized boot. Would not consider the Gallardo due to the boot.
I have looked at an F Type and written it off because of the lack of space. A great shame as I really do like the car. I dare not take a test drive as I know I would love it and Mrs BC would kill me if she had to tour without her famous shoe collection.
Edited by bad company on Thursday 26th September 09:58
If 50l is the breaker then why not just get a "under knee" bag and put it in front of the passenger seat?
If you are a proper bloke anyway you could survive with just 14 pants and socks. You can also use every litre of the Ftype as the fitted luggage doesn't leave anything spare except the tyre gunk inflator. Take that out and replace with a type plug kit and a can of squirt and I'd happily bet you I could actually for more clothes and shoes it he Ftype than a 430S which I am very familiar with.
In the end we didn't need all the clothes we took, and given I had three rucksacks full of computer/photo kit and "stuff" we could have easily only taken three out of the four luggage pieces,
I"d get to your dealer and ask to see the luggage set outside of the car. I think you will be very surprised as you can one full cabin size trundler, one 3/4 size trundler, a full size suit carrier, a full size laptop bag.
J
If you are a proper bloke anyway you could survive with just 14 pants and socks. You can also use every litre of the Ftype as the fitted luggage doesn't leave anything spare except the tyre gunk inflator. Take that out and replace with a type plug kit and a can of squirt and I'd happily bet you I could actually for more clothes and shoes it he Ftype than a 430S which I am very familiar with.
In the end we didn't need all the clothes we took, and given I had three rucksacks full of computer/photo kit and "stuff" we could have easily only taken three out of the four luggage pieces,
I"d get to your dealer and ask to see the luggage set outside of the car. I think you will be very surprised as you can one full cabin size trundler, one 3/4 size trundler, a full size suit carrier, a full size laptop bag.
J
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