Oh, I don’t mind.

Hey, I think a track weapon is a great idea for a four-car garage.

Fair enough. It did say that.

I definitely want an X358 XJ Super Portfolio.

A Radical. Woof. And people made fun of me! Get ready to be really chummy with that engine (and having to have it rebuilt) after every 40 hours of racing.

The substantiated lore is that Ford wanted to use its 4.6-liter Modular engine for the Thunderbird and LS, likely one of the high-spec 4-valve version seen on the likes of the Mustang Cobra, Mark VIII, Aviator, Marauder, etc. However, the Mod engine allegedly didn’t clear some suspension bits when installed from below.

My realistic four-car dream garage is:

No, for lots of reasons, chiefly:

I don’t think people understand just how cheap used Jags can get. I just picked up an XK8 for $8,500 (you guys should run the reader submission I sent emailed about it)

I get that effect from the early jewel-eye Acuras, specifically the 2014-era MDX.

I understand how it could hurt if you’re limping along a 2010 Sierra Denali with a 6.2-liter, but anyone buying one of those trucks new is spending luxury-car money for them, and you shouldn’t waste your pity on them that their gas hog costs a lot to drive. They can afford it. They bought a $75K+ vechicle.

But the moment prices go above $4 a gallon everyone loses their shit and tried to sell their huge SUV.

Correct. I find cars with small gas tanks and terrible fuel economy irritating. Pick one or the other, but not both.

Will we? The prior few generations of Legacy have been frumpily styled, bulky-looking sedans that no one cared about. The last generation of Legacy that was relevant or good-looking was the one with the frameless windows, and that ended after 2009.

They are, and speaking from experience, the Jaguar V12 is relatively unsophisticated. I have a 1996 XJ12, which was the last year in which the V12 was sold in any Jaguar in the US.

Correct. The architectures of the Duratec and the Aston Martin V12 were related, so they have some common dimensions, but very little swaps over, and--beside that--Aston Martin tended to cram things in inconvenient places on its cars for the sake of saving money or being able to borrow from the parts bin of another…

I’d use the term “differently different” to describe Tesla and its various, nonsensical “features.”

I am simultaneously honored and dismayed to be the first post on this article.

The Spirit R/T would have been a vastly better foundation with which to create a SEMA car.

True. Fun fact: they used to build those particular N-bodies (Malibu and its Cutlass clone) here in Oklahoma City, after the A-bodies got discontinued. The final N-bodies (Alero and final Grand Am) were not built here, as by then, the Oklahoma City plant had switched over to producing the extended-wheelbase GMT360…

Don’t insult the Maxima that way. That was arguably the last good Maxima. And while they broadly look kind of similar, the devil is in the details. The Maxima looks a lot more chiseled and purposeful.