Entering your angsty teen years is not really “grown up a little.”
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There’s also the other Jalopnik answer: what idiot would ever buy a car new? or settle for stock performance? You could buy an X for $tiny and with $tiny*2 in mods run rings around that Jag and everything else.
True but the Corvette can’t be had with a Jaguar body.
Maybe I’m an odd duck, but I find hairy four-cylinders less unpleasant-sounding than hairy V6s. There’s always a blatt sound to a V6 exhaust note.
Ingenium inline six.
I bet the manual disappears entirely once they put their new inline six in the middle of the range.
With the same transmission it’s $62,700, but even that $2,800 gap isn’t much. That suggests the 340hp V6 will be discontinued or will get more standard features. I’m betting discontinued, because the V6 is supercharged while this four-pot has a turbo, and Jaguar’s reaching for better CO2 emissions.
Now compare the 2001 Taurus to the 2007 Jaguar XK.
Ironically, had they accounted for the deadheaders first, they wouldn’t have made such a mess of it. They could have done it before issuing all boarding passes, or at least before physically boarding, conducting the volunteer/lottery at the gate. Someone can refuse to leave their lounge chair and it won’t hold up the…
I used quotes to beg meaning for a reason. And you went a lot further than that. Basically identical, you said. Thirty-five years, you said. Three-hundred-fifty horsepower, you said. STUNNED by 330hp in anything short of a Ferrari in MY1997, you said.
A childhood back seat road trip silly-fit, when any random incongruous thing is the funniest thing you’ve ever heard or said.
They’re similar in the sense that all cars from an era are similar, and not really more than that. The Probe and Mazda were not twins; they did not share sheet metal or greenhouse. The pair are a great example of platform-sharing without the stink of badge engineering.
Big business has a fundamental advantage here. Consumers will not spontaneously unionize, and in many cases have no real leverage.
The flight in question was United Express operated by Republic Airways Holdings. This is how big airlines deal with cost-cutting airlines.
Most cars from every automotive era ever are “pretty similar.”
It’s not incredible, it’s typical.
I did not claim objectivity. Add English to the list of things you don’t know very well.
Pretty similar? In the same way that all white people look alike, sure. “The same basic design philosophy?” You are profoundly ignorant of automotive styling, and I am certain if anyone is still reading your baldfaced venting they’ll give your opinion all the consideration it deserves.
Unless you’ve got some kind of bizarre fixation for uncomfortable unsupportive seats, fake wood being better than, well, anything, worse ergonomics, harder to read gauges, and skinny steering wheels, there’s no way you can objectively state that interiors in the 60's were better than interiors in the 90's.