NoddyPirate
Grand Master
Oh my goodness this is so easy @AgentCooper !! No thinking required for any of the three.....
First up is the no brainer. Jaguar F-Type R. In British Racing Green obviously. I quickly specced this one up for myself on Jaguar.ie. It's a 5 litre, 575 PS, 700 ft/lb beauty at a totally steal price of just €205k.
This car has the most fantastically styled rear end of anything I have seen, mechanical or living. I mentioned here before in the past I think that my plan would be to reverse the car into the drive so that I could enjoy it's bum through the window whenever I needed a little pick me up.
Next up is the subject of my long standing infatuation with Jaguars. It started at a very young age where I would spend significant amounts of time at age 9 or 10 designing my own cars and engines on A3 sheets of paper my folks used to get for me once or twice a month. I will never forget when my Dad brought me to a Jaguar dealer as a treat so we could look around. I gathered all the brochures and poured over them for hour after hour. I was in love! And there was one single car that did it for me more than any other.
I will never forget the main image that caight my attention - a Jaguar XJ-S parked in front of a beautiful English country home. It's rear end side on towards the camera. I have trawled the web but can't find the actual image. This one is the closest I can find for now:
Finally, my day to day run around. No question on this one - I drove one of these as my daily driver when I was working in Florida. A Cadillac Brougham from the 80's. It had a 5.7 L V8 in it which averaged about 8 mpg. It weighed a little less than 3 tonnes, and that meant that combined with it absolutely shocking automatic gearbox it just made noise and didn't go very fast.
What I do remember though is that it's weight was far too high for it's skinny wheels. On the way to work you came over a little down to an intersection just on the other side. When it was wet, I would regularly crest that hill to find the lights red and then proceed to lock up all four wheels and then slide through the intersection, eventually resigning myself to the fact I couldn't stop, releasing the brakes and just carrying on regardless.
It was an absolute monstrously and pointlessly big car. What I loved though is that there were a load of old farts in my town who drove these to their doctors appointments, or for the weekly shop, or whatever else. Chugging away, sucking gas like it was only 99c a gallon (which it was back then) and struggling to park it whenever they arrived at their destination.
I love the idea of using one of these to go down to my local Eurospar and spending eons trying to parallel park it outside the front door!
First up is the no brainer. Jaguar F-Type R. In British Racing Green obviously. I quickly specced this one up for myself on Jaguar.ie. It's a 5 litre, 575 PS, 700 ft/lb beauty at a totally steal price of just €205k.
This car has the most fantastically styled rear end of anything I have seen, mechanical or living. I mentioned here before in the past I think that my plan would be to reverse the car into the drive so that I could enjoy it's bum through the window whenever I needed a little pick me up.
Next up is the subject of my long standing infatuation with Jaguars. It started at a very young age where I would spend significant amounts of time at age 9 or 10 designing my own cars and engines on A3 sheets of paper my folks used to get for me once or twice a month. I will never forget when my Dad brought me to a Jaguar dealer as a treat so we could look around. I gathered all the brochures and poured over them for hour after hour. I was in love! And there was one single car that did it for me more than any other.
I will never forget the main image that caight my attention - a Jaguar XJ-S parked in front of a beautiful English country home. It's rear end side on towards the camera. I have trawled the web but can't find the actual image. This one is the closest I can find for now:
Finally, my day to day run around. No question on this one - I drove one of these as my daily driver when I was working in Florida. A Cadillac Brougham from the 80's. It had a 5.7 L V8 in it which averaged about 8 mpg. It weighed a little less than 3 tonnes, and that meant that combined with it absolutely shocking automatic gearbox it just made noise and didn't go very fast.
What I do remember though is that it's weight was far too high for it's skinny wheels. On the way to work you came over a little down to an intersection just on the other side. When it was wet, I would regularly crest that hill to find the lights red and then proceed to lock up all four wheels and then slide through the intersection, eventually resigning myself to the fact I couldn't stop, releasing the brakes and just carrying on regardless.
It was an absolute monstrously and pointlessly big car. What I loved though is that there were a load of old farts in my town who drove these to their doctors appointments, or for the weekly shop, or whatever else. Chugging away, sucking gas like it was only 99c a gallon (which it was back then) and struggling to park it whenever they arrived at their destination.
I love the idea of using one of these to go down to my local Eurospar and spending eons trying to parallel park it outside the front door!
