Ottobon
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I remember in the second grade deciding that me and my friend Kenny were going to be in a rock band called "The Jaguars." Sure it was a dumb name, but i think it goes to show that even though executive cars are a boring subject matter to 7 year olds somehow Jaguar eluded that. There has been something very emotional and human about them for as long as i can remember, and while I'm on the subject of being young, i remember crystal clearly that as a unbiased 10 year old i preferred the looks of the old XK to that of the DB7. Sure they looked similar at the time, but somehow the XK just looked more like it knew what it wanted to be then any of the Aston Martins of the 90s. My main concern and the reason i write this thread is that at the present it seems as though Jaguar would rather be Hyundai. Not so much the current line up, but the upcoming line-up. I don't have much of a issue with the XK, nothing that hasn't been said already, but the new S-type and X-type are both embarrassments. The S-type was already looking bad, and now its even worse. And while the X-type isn't necessarily bad, theres nothing that makes me think "better not cut that guy off if i want to live" when i look at it. So really the whole point of buying a Jaguar seems gone. I remember looking at the CF-X and thinking "Yes! this could save Jaguar" and now i feel betrayed because what they have churned out looks more like "mass-market" styling then anything else. I recently noticed, with alot of excitement to be honest, that Jaguar listed "XF" on its website, sadly this seems too have the profile of a Lexus and a front end dictated by Marketing instead of style, damn
What do you think?
Pictures:
(upcoming Jaguars, not sure which is which because all the mags say something different)
XF:
I suppose every car manufacture has had at least a generation of so-so looking cars, i just wish Jaguar could have chosen to have such a moment during a period in which they weren't going bankrupt.
What do you think?
Pictures:
(upcoming Jaguars, not sure which is which because all the mags say something different)
XF:
I suppose every car manufacture has had at least a generation of so-so looking cars, i just wish Jaguar could have chosen to have such a moment during a period in which they weren't going bankrupt.