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[HPsauce]

Have you looked at Jaguar?

[sarg]

Originally Posted by HPsauce

Have you looked at Jaguar?

Which one?

XE: not a fan, no real performance version compared with the germans
XF: bit old in the tooth, tried one a few years ago, I fell out of the seat (literally!) going round a roundabout enthusiastically
XJ: like the looks, but would rather a D4 with 4wd
F-Type: love them, but only 2 seats so would only work as a weekend car, and too expensive/depreciating for that
F-Pace: possible daily driver contender

[Goran]

Originally Posted by sarg

That's an unexpected response on this forum Goran, but I agree with you and with a lot of stuff Chris Harris says.

Like you I just want a fun, reliable car, I am not wedded to the Audi marque. That's what I like about this forum we don't defend Audi religiously, if there are design flaws we come out and say it, and if there are better cars people don't hesitate to reccommend them. Having been with Audi for over 8 years now I am itching to try something different. I never owned a rear wheel drive car so that is also something I want to tick off the list

[HPsauce]

Originally Posted by sarg

Which one?

Well I think you answered that.

You mentioned a small garage; what about the choice we made for our "daily", Volvo V40? Same size as a Ford Focus but very different and ours has all the toys, 4WD, 8-speed auto and about as fast 0-60 as the S8 though just a 2-litre (petrol) turbo delivering about 250bhp.
We narrowed it down to that or a Jaguar XE, but the Volvo won on penalties!

[1781cc]

Based on looking at C63 and Mustangs, have you considered a Hellcat? or is RHD the only way to go?

[sarg]

Originally Posted by 1781cc

Based on looking at C63 and Mustangs, have you considered a Hellcat? or is RHD the only way to go?

RHD is less of a consideration than the £65k plus these cost (just looked on AT) and unknown levels of depreciation

[briang9]

Originally Posted by sarg

Which one?

XE: not a fan, no real performance version compared with the germans
XF: bit old in the tooth, tried one a few years ago, I fell out of the seat (literally!) going round a roundabout enthusiastically
XJ: like the looks, but would rather a D4 with 4wd
F-Type: love them, but only 2 seats so would only work as a weekend car, and too expensive/depreciating for that
F-Pace: possible daily driver contender

The XE comes with an option of the same engine V6 as the F-Type, pretty quick at under 5.00 secs to 60

[HPsauce]

Originally Posted by briang9

The XE comes with an option of the same engine V6 as the F-Type, pretty quick at under 5.00 secs to 60

Indeed it does, we test drove both that (3-litre 340PS) and the most powerful 2-litre petrol (240PS).
The 2-litre is fine, the 3-litre quite quick. For the money our choice would have been the 2-litre as there's a huge price premium for the 3-litre.

[briang9]

Originally Posted by briang9

..Sarg..buy something for a grand, it's surprising how much reliability and comfort you can get for shed money

and this weeks PH Shed of the week could just be the one for you

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifie...--1999/6798218

[sarg]

Originally Posted by briang9

The XE comes with an option of the same engine V6 as the F-Type, pretty quick at under 5.00 secs to 60

It does, but it's 340i/S4/C43 power, Jaguar really needs a proper high performance XE above this one. I still don't like the looks of the thing though, but I'll drop by a Jag showroom and have a proper poke and feel some time soon.

Even then, as HP points out, they're too much money, I forecast heavy depreciation on these over the next couple of years, especially if Jag do bring out a more powerful model.