Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 22 16:36:09 CST 2006
Hi Gustav I also had a Jag, much longer ago, much older, much slower, much bigger. A Mark VII Saloon. Weighed a coupla tons. When the temp got down below -15C or so, it wouldn't even htink of moving. But man, it was more comfortable than any couch I've owned. P. Gustav Brock wrote: > Hi Arthur > > Don't speak of Jaguars. I had a Tudor white XJ 5.3C - the 12 cylinder coupé - for 13 years. Drove it every day and felt it like a privilege. The comfort of that car is second to none, a perfect match of a racing car and a limousine. My wife, Rita, loved it too. She drove it as often as I did. "The flying carpet" she called it and pressed the speeder causing only a quiet civilized humming. > > It was nearly like this, except that it was all white and mounted with the newer aluminum wheels: > > http://www.classiccarclub.co.uk/carpages/jag_xj.asp > > Still, no one can design cars like Jaguar. I often study BMWs and Mercedes but they just don't get it. Master engineering, yes, but no sense for style. As a journalist here wrote after a test drive for an extended period of the latest model "grand Jaguar": You could live in that car. > > Today my old car would cost a fortune in fuel consumption alone. My wife tells me to earn a lot of money; then I can buy any car I wish, she says. She knows what I would buy, and I would have no problem spending that kind of money for a real car. She would even appreciate it ... > Did I tell that her favourite car is the Jaguar XK150 S cabriolet? It is so beautiful, and she was hooked the first time we looked at one at a Jaguar car meeting. It had been refurbished using the original special red colour and looked brand new - ready to tour the country: > > http://www.bsmotoring.com/2002/02jun21_1.htm > > Oh well, such cars are getting expensive to the degree where you don't dare to drive them. It's a pity as Jaguars are built to drive. > Tomorrow it's Monday. Better write some code and earn some money. > > /gustav > > >>>> artful at rogers.com 22-01-2006 19:29 >>> >>>> > I seem seriously to have missed the point on what cars are valuable. An > original mint condition Jaguar XKE sold for a mere half million while a > Chrysler Hemicuda sold for 2 million! Unf**king believable. Here you have > perhaps the greatest car ever designed (XKE) vs. another stupid lumbering > behemoth and somehow the behemoth scores four times more than the XKE. How > could this occur. Perhaps the old adage applies: if you want to know what > God thinks of money, look to whom he gave it. > Unbelievable, a HemiCuda worth four times the price of an XKE, both of which > are in mint condition. This is a stupid world. > Mind you, anyone who is there to pay a million or so for a car clearly has > too much money, but that is an aside. But given a choice between 4 Jag XKEs > and one HemiCuda, what would you choose? I like HemiCudas but let us be > realistic about this. How could one possibly fault the design of an XKE and > instead choose a HemiCuda? > I guess this is why I am not affluent. I keep choosing design over HOT. You > get about 1.5 miles per gallon in a Hemi, which is obviously not why you > might have purchased one. But still, why on earth would you buy such an > angry dog? This is not a car! It is a display of somethingm, and I suspect > what that something is, but will venture no further than to reiterate > Fuller`s Fifth law: cubic inch displacement is inversely proportional to > sexual ability. > > Arthur > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -------------- next part -------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: 1/20/2006