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The opposition is clearly winning the debate. Good reply I'm sad to say.
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>> Good reply I'm sad to say.
Not that good really. All Mercedes could do was come on po-faced and adult, given that the point being made was that the right Jaguar in the right hands could eat one up.
I've been thinking about this today because I've been uselessly and fruitlessly to London and back, and on the way there by an indirect route passed along the (now very different) length of road where Mike Hawthorn, er, came to grief making the same point by hurtling past Robb Walker's Mercedes round a gentle left-hander that at a sane speed let alone the limit would have been a mimse in those race-tuned cars.
Two rich top-flight competition-car men having a friendly joust on the way home from the pub.
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I must say I would like it if there was a raw, hairy Jaguar model that really could eat a Mercedes, but I can't help doubting it. There are so many Mercedes models, and so many seem so good.
Anyone would be happy to sit behind a murmuring huge V8 that could snarl when required.
Is there a really quick off-the-shelf Jaguar, that's the question.
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>> I must say I would like it if there was a raw, hairy Jaguar model that really could eat a Mercedes, but I can't help doubting it. There are so many Mercedes models, and so many seem so good.
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>> Anyone would be happy to sit behind a murmuring huge V8 that could snarl when required.
Having driven a selection of Merc AMG's around Milbrook, (no Jags though :-( ) I must say, whilst Fun... they are a bit bland.
IMHO the electronics take too much away, its like driving a V8 powered washing machine...
That said , without any of the electronic aids the cars would be pretty much undriveable.
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Reading the replies to the second link, it seems the mainly MB readers don't have an once of humour in them and are gob-smacked that anyone could possibly compete with their beloved MB.
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Yeah well, and your point is?
;-))
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>> MB readers don't have an once of humour in them
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Oh, we MB readers - and owners - have a once of humour. ONCE is ok, but TWICE? now that's another thing.
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Oops, sorry for course meant to say 'ounce', but some of those replies really can't take or understand a joke it seems, maybe it's a British thing?
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>> Oops, sorry of course meant to say 'ounce'
Hasn't humour gone metric then or is it still imperial measurement?
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>> Is there a really quick off-the-shelf Jaguar, that's the question.
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Will this do?
tinyurl.com/q5p3vec
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>> >> Is there a really quick off-the-shelf Jaguar, that's the question.
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>> Will this do?
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>> tinyurl.com/q5p3vec
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There are 76 XKRs on Autotrader. Something there, Shirley?
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>> Will this do?
I suppose so Wp, no doubt it goes very well, but it's a bit too pretty for my taste, all that fine badging and louvrework... a slightly rough patina with a couple of low-key non-standard features, a dirty yellow tail panel, something like that, is the look I like for very quick road cars in frequent use. I'm just an old romantic I guess.
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Had a lift in my friend's new C63 AMG estate today. Exterior styling modest enough, only clues being a couple of bulges in the bonnet. Interior very similar to my car to be honest apart from the bucket seats. Smaller inside than I'd have imagined. Overall very restrained but oozing quality.
The acceleration though, and the noise when doing it...Sssssssssweeeeet Jeeeeeeeezzzuss !!!!
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I've read your message 4 (FOUR times).Still Grinning...............
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>> The acceleration though, and the noise when doing it...Sssssssss
...hheeeit! Goodness I so get you Humph, sounds like the perfect Merc snorting monster, debadged and roughened up a bit Bob's yer uncle goodness me oh dear oh dear.
Two thoughts are that say three to five years ago someone pulled out of a parker opposite my old gaff in the Grove in a big Merc that accelerated like a bullet apparently trying to kill me as I crossed the road, I had to sprint no kidding, what a carphound, worse than bad manners, dangerous.
The weird thing was that I had recently been interviewing a valiant old Greek Socialist lady who had been injured in the fifties I think in an attempt on her husband's life by the CIA using a car... can't remember whether they got him or not, but both her legs were bent sideways at the knee. She was still a valiant Greek left-of-centre-but-not-communist-trotskyist-or-any-bunch-of-mountain-b
rigands
intellectual even in the eighties. These things never die.
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Jag wins - swiss tony
