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It looks a bit green to me in that pic but if it's black that's easily the worst colour of the lot i
Despite Clarkson's gushing praise for the XJR, he still managed to slip a bit of characteristic moaning into a few columns. ace sport tickets kansas city "Black cars cannot achieve that all-over scum effect so, when it's dirty, it just looks awful," he cursed.
This also isn't the first time Top Gear has used the services of Anglia Car Auctions - the auction house that is selling the Jaguar - as four years ago Hammond, Jeremy and May visited the site and purchased three classic vehicles that would later compete in a rally challenge to feature in the show.
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Head to the auction to buy the car is the easy bit. The fun starts when you have to pay for the insurance and maintenance. My current car is an S-Type with a slightly bigger, un-supercharged version of the same engine. Getting 20 mpg out of an XJR on open roads is pretty good going, but if you use a tankful driving around any built-up area never calculate the mpg without a paramedic in attendance, with a defibrillator for when you have a heart attack. For the maintenance find an independent specialist. ace sport tickets kansas city The labour rate at my local Jaguar dealership is 109 plus VAT an hour, and they farm a lot of the older cars they have to service out to the independent garage where I have taken my Jaguars for many years. My guy invoices the dealer at 49 plus VAT, who then charge their customer at 109 plus VAT. Nice work, if you can get it...
It looks a bit green to me in that pic but if it's black that's easily the worst colour of the lot imho, from both the safety and appearance angles. White is far better (look at those new Audis) and so is a nice metallic red, particularly for sporty cars.
Cars are but a set of wheels , transport to get you and your family from At o B in comfort. I dont think there are any bad cars out there, and modern cars can easiuly do a hundred thousand miles without ace sport tickets kansas city trouble if properly maintained. Forget image or what others think, get what you need and what you can afford to run. My new Bentley continental GT suits me fine and will last for the next 20 years.
A wonderful ace sport tickets kansas city car and not the banger that some here think. Yes, relatively expensive to run and with some faults (like the German gearbox !) but a future ace sport tickets kansas city collectable classic. Luxury and power for 3500 + 16-20mpg or a boring modern box for 20,000 + 50mpg. How long will it take to spend the extra 16500 on fuel ? You take your choice.
It's a banger. These old Jags seem to be riddled with rust and full of components that are on their last legs. A friend has had 3. First one so rusty it had to be scrapped after he spent 2000 on it. Second one needed 3000 spent on it, then was written off when a truck shed its load on it. Third one, just passed MOT after he an spent undisclosed sum on it. He could not collect it for 3 weeks while he raised the cash to pay the bill, probably from Wonga, lol.
Obviously ace sport tickets kansas city I disagree with your opinion and I don't think a car written off by a load shed from a lorry really qualifies. I have had 7 Jaguars and the only I had trouble had was due to the German gearbox (the same one fitted to BMW X5's). The rest have been very reliable. So are they all bangers ? Of course not.
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