My favorite Jaguar memory is when the wheel fell off mine while I was driving it (my fault). Ah, good times.

The engines are awesome and reliable, because they’re old Ford engines that go back years.

Well, I was speaking in general for anyone looking for an S90. It’s probably not a good fit for our letter writer, anyway.

Yes. Be aware that the S90 was SWB only for its debut year, 2017. In 2018, our only S90 became the Chinese-built S90L, so 2018+ models have a much longer wheelbase (120.5" vs 115.8"). There doesn’t seem to be any quality difference between the 2017 and the 2018+, so I’d get the bigger one.

I actually like the styling of the Continental, but the CD4 platform still makes for a flinty, unluxurious ride. The styling writes checks that the hardware can’t cash. My money would go to a Cadillac CT6, instead.

Oh? Well, that’s exciting!

You can’t get a RAV4 Prime right now. Even the Hybrid is hard to come by, but the Prime is essentially sold out for the next couple of years. Any dealership that does have one come available will be charging well over sticker for it.

I haven’t driven the AMG C 43, but it seems like the M340i is the better car.

It’s true. A close family member of mine has an STS-V, so I have personal experience with that one. Also, the STS-V was produced between 2006-2009 and made 469 HP. Ours is a 2006. Apparently, they only made 2,500-ish of them, and a not insignificant portion of that was exported to the UAE.

So you’re saying that the Seville STS was an otherwise-attractive car stymied by a bad engine? I could see that.

I feel you. I never thought the F30 was particularly unreliable, so I’m not sure what people are on about.

Yeah, I had a rock take out the A/C condenser in a 2015 Grand Cherokee. I also had an exploding A/C compressor take out both the condenser and compressor in a 1997 Jetta GLX VR6. That was fun; it sounded like a gunshot going off.

Yep. I rented a 2019 BMW 750d in Munich and was not twenty feet away from leaving the return area when I got an email with pictures of the wheel I curbed and a bill for €1,200.

I don’t think it did. The 80s were probably Cadillac’s biggest loss of market share. By the time they rolled into the 90s and the advent of the Northstar, all the people that mattered had already quit paying attention, and were happily buying foreign brands.

I think you mean Cimarron.

I don’t think there’s a single N-body product that was redeemable.

The N54 isn’t a nightmare per se, but it has a few expensive maintenance items, such as the fuel injectors, which can cost a pretty penny apiece, and it’s advisable to replace all six at once. That said, what it has over the N55 is a high level of tunability, and that’s what makes it a BMW fan favorite.

My understanding is that Toyota actually helped engineer portions of the B58, or at least solidify them, in order to meet its own internal quality standards. Since I have a version of the B58 in my X5, that gives me some real comfort.

I don’t actually think Jaguar is hurt by its prior reputation for unreliability. As you hint, sister company Land Rover has an equal or greater record for unreliability, and manages to do just fine. What hurts Jaguar is that its current crop of cars don’t do anything as well as the Germans, and aren’t particularly…

I prefer the original crunchy recipe, thanks.