My Grandad had two of them when I was growing up (in the UK). I'd love to have one,but this is a bit rich for my blood.

That headlight style looked shit on Strosek Porsches, and it looks shit here. Hideous.

My High School girlfriend had the successor to this car, a '93 (I think) NX2000. Based on the Sentra SE-R, with an SR20DE and T-Tops it was great fun, and extremely rare. Even more so today!

Incidentally, the article says "One of the movie cars." I'm not positive, but I think there was only one.

He's a buddy of mine. I left him a message to drop by with an update.

In the 1980s, Mercedes didn't sell their top of the line cars in the USA.  People started importing them via the grey market.  This didn't sit well with Mercedes USA, so they lobbied the Federal government for restrictions.  Thus, this mess was put in place.

It's usually justified two ways:  Safety and Environmental…

NP, but only 'cos it was my submission.  This thing is too insane not to love!

This is where the NP/CP idea sort of falls apart.  Can you find better performance for equal/less money?  Yes, so CP.

If you want this particular type of car, I'd doubt you can find much better, so NP.

"Tiguan."  A mash-up, really?  

Awful.

HEY MA!  GIT OFF THE DANG ROOF!

And for those so inclined aside from the flashy side vents and the different (and uglier, IMHO) front airdam on the newer ones, these are visually and mechanically almost identical to a 2009 model that will still run you $50k.

I think I may've seen your car on Jaguarforums?

You can pick up a low mileage X350 XJ8 (2004-2006 era) for around $10k nowadays.

I have an X350 (the "brutal grille" version), and you can swap out the grille mesh and have a respectable looking front end without the stupid "toothless grin" lower valance thing.

My first car — a 1987 Oldsmobile Delta 88... ROYALE BROUGHAM!

Buy it, and Donk it.

The truly frustrating one is "Jag-Wire," which I've heard on more than one occasion here in the US.

Lincoln lost their way long, long before 2012.

I bought a '97 in around 2000, and drove it for 4 years. Yes, it's not an M3, but I think the car gets an undeserved bad rap. It was a much more nimble and agile Caddy than anything they'd ever offered. It was comfortable, performance was reasonable, and other than a timing chain issue was reliable.

Would I upgrade from my purple C4 Corvette to that? Yup.