Engineering question: What is the difference, if any, in lightning safety between coupe and convertible? The Faraday cage would seem to be not in place on a convertible.

Coping with my manual-transmission-only buying mantra in a world of shrinking three-pedal options.

Every millimeter of that car is beautiful. Modern cars may be “better” but they will never again be as artistic/craftsman as pre-war cars were. As an aside, I’ve always thought Citroen’s chevron logo and the way they integrate it into the grilles of their cars is underrated as far as styling cues go.

The next time you find one that isn’t owned by someone who is a raging gasbag, will be the first time. Typical driver is late 50s, over-tanned, white pants, shirt opened one button too far, multiple gold chains.

I owned one. #2417 (owners refer to their cars by the last four digits of the VIN). You are right in that it handles poorly, perhaps even dangerously. The version I had (351 Windsor, 3-speed auto) was the slowest of the three but unfortunately also the most common.

There is a guy in my hometown that collects these. He has 3 or 4 at the moment, and when the weather is good, he parks them in his front yard in sort of a semicircle pattern to show them off.

I don’t dispute that urban areas (or more specifically, the super-urban areas like NYC, Boston, etc.) have a traffic problem. What I don’t want to see is trying to legislate this issue away, particularly for non-residents of those cities as they’re either traveling to or passing through those areas.

If we want to talk about culture issues — i.e., “car culture” — then maybe the other piece of this puzzle is to discuss the continuing insistence to live in urban areas, stack people on top of people and create congestion. We can gloss it up and say it’s for resource conservation or whatnot, but we know that’s not…

You’d have to prove to me the fleet ages out in less than 20, much less 10. Cars last longer today than they ever have. A car with 100k on the clock used to be “used up” whereas today plenty of people are driving into the multiple hundreds of thousands of miles, and cars 10 years old still look and drive like new. A…

And the biggest difference there is that horses and cars can’t share the same transportation infrastructure, due to the speed differential and the fact the horse is a live animal with reflexes and a panic mechanism. Meanwhile, autonomous cars and driven cars travel on the same roads at the same speed on the same fuel.

I missed the original query that elicited these responses, but I’ll throw in a short one here:

What I rarely see addressed is the very basic economic concept of asset redeployment and it matters a great deal where cars are concerned.

I actually love the color treatment; it’s my favorite thing about this car. That gray color with just a hint of periwinkle undertone (especially if done in a high-gloss, no-metallic acryllic paint) looks great on just about every sports car it lands on. Blackout the trim the right way and it gets even better.

Hand-built Jaguar XJS shooting brake (build thread under the pic):

Heh, put my pic in the wrong thread, so I’ll edit this one to say: Shooting brakes. Love ‘em.

I should have put this in my original comment.

Was just coming here to write the same. One of our old car club buddies and his newly minted wife/partner in literal crime just bought one of these complete with aftermarket gold rims. He talked about it being a “lifelong dream.” Well, he’s actually making payments on the thing, it already has a fully illuminated…

There are guys in the Jaguar XJS community that have made shooting brakes out of XJS coupes. Personally not my thing, but that’s not the point I want to make.

We have the MKT EcoBoost. Looks like a hearse but damn, it’s a good car.

But having a baby in the back of one isn’t. Witnessed it at the now-defunct Lighthouse Motel in Gulf Shores, Ala., circa 1995. How a pregnant woman got wedged in the back of that crapcan still blows my mind.