Automotive

I remember the CRX V-tec in the 90ies, revvable to 8400 rpm ... wow !!! But as i used to be used to four cilinder bikes in the mid nineties 12-13,000 rpm was not uncommon .. i think a modern 600 now revs up to 16,000 or so !!!!

Didn't know the flappys on a Fer andLambo had that neutral feature too, quite convenient i must say.

X and S type ... well i had a friend who owned a 3 litre S-type from 2002 till 2012 and he didn't seem to have had any trouble except for r the heating system that broke down after 5 years ... other than that no troubles at all. My uncle has had some XJ and an XK8 and the build was better than any BMW he ever owned ... .

Our X-type is now 11 years old ... has only 50k miles on the clock and i don't think there have been issues with it (i just bought it 7-8 months ago so we will see what the future brings ... but i must say i'm really amazed by the build quality. My goal is to drive it at least another 4-5 years hoping not much will break down ... i do take care as i know you have to take care of an 11 year old car previously owned by a certain miss Silver who sold the car because she got to old to drive ... the car has been maintained at Jaguar-dealers throughout the years (every april - about every 5000 miles LOL) . When people see us in our JAGUUUUUAAAAAARRR they are always amazed and think we bought a brandnew car ... that's how clean and fresh it still looks ....  .When i wash it by hand you feel the paintwork is topclass compared to my 2 year old Renault, can you imagine ? The wheels are still in an amazing condition and the quality of the leather can be compared to the XJ-series. The dashboard has a few flaws, 2 bits of plastic loosening because of the sun i suspect but for 3000 quid you can't complain can ya ?

So how come you heard about the poor build quality ? I suspect that the later (past 2004) models became more mainstream (2,1 petrol + diesels) compared to the early 2,5 and 3,0 V6 models (with 4WD as standard). Back in 2001 when Jaguar started building these X on the Mondeo-platform they wanted a true Jag and built them likewise i suppose ... a couple of years later the diesels came and less time was probably spent on building it, i have a friend who had a diesel estate and got rid of it after a year because 'things' went wrong too much to be good.

I spoke to a guy working at Ford-Genk in Belgium at the time where they were also preparing X-type prototypes and he told me that these were NO Ford's at all, build quality and engineering where of a different class, the 2.5 V6 delivers 170 hp in the Mondeo, the X-type got 196 hp (abd that's an atmospheric engine .... it still revs happily up to 6500 rpm ,but not too often my dear .

That's it for now, have to do some serious work and kick someone's arse so hard .... grrrrrrrr......

I'll be back !

A very angry Bim ....

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