hashluck
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Cracking car! Well not the XK8 but X150
Something for everyone under 30K.
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Cracking car! Well not the XK8 but X150
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LOL....it's not my fault Maserati doesn't have a car that fits this popular category. Aston sold quite a few Vantages. Imagine how many cars Maserati could have sold if they had produced a 2 seater manual V8 Coupe. Still a valid requirement now.
Very frustrating as Maserati had a cracking powerplant there.
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I keep getting drawn to the X150 they look such value for money at the moment and a Stunning Car in both the Coupe or Convertible.
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I'm sure it might be but missing the point a little. So are many manufacturers these days.I'll bet a secondhand 40k Alfa Giulia QV with its 500+hp is far more accomplished to drive every day than any modern AM ever produced
I've driven lots of late AM's, there all talk and no trousers!
All the old stuff though are fantastic!
Dave
It is difficult to impossible to try to make 2 vehicles in one. Quite often a comfortable daily doesn't make a great sports car and vice versa a great sports car doesn't always make a great daily. The are both compromises.
If I want a sports car I want a sports car......not a comfortable daily.
I understand that some have to compromise as only have one car to do both but I'm lucky and appreciative I can do both with less compromise.
hashluck
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Love ours. When my current E46 daily is sold I will get this out and use it over the summer and then likely time to sell
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Those Jags are tremendous. I had an XFR and it was the dog’s thingies. The XF hasn’t aged as well, in my humble, but the XK certainly has. Always hankered after the XF’s more rugged and sportier cousin, but the rear seats are useless.
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That’s a rubbish insult, Dave. Surely you’re supposed to compare it something unpleasant, such as “I’d rather stick wasps up my ar5e”?
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Make sure it is a nice pink one with a full length fabric sun roof
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I'll bet a secondhand 40k Alfa Giulia QV with its 500+hp is far more accomplished to drive every day than any modern AM ever produced
I've driven lots of late AM's, there all talk and no trousers!
All the old stuff though are fantastic!
Dave
Great car...I would love one ..but as a daily drive not that special two seater sports car for the Sunday morning blast........but it's interior is still made out of fisher price plastic and I would want a car that didn't have parts falling off it for 40k. Even after all these years Alfa still can't get this right. The best build I had on an Alfa was my lovely GTV V6.....after that they seem to have gone down hill again........Alfa fans I think call that character.......Character my ****.......Shoddy in this day and age I would call it.
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These are great value these days. Have you seen how cheap they start at......
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Agree, Jaguar x150 is a truly timeless design that has aged better than most other coupes from around 2005 imho. They also drive really well, make a great noise, are reliable and relatively cheap to maintain and run. Shame it was never available as a manual or with a cambiocorsa style gearbox as the auto is almost a little too quick and refined to provide the ultimate driving experience that a manual gives. Use mine a lot here in the Algarve where it is a comparatively rare car and attracts a lot of very positive attention
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I'm with AndyK I can forgive the Aston V8 Vantage a lot just because of its looks, it is IMO one of the best balanced coupes there has ever been and its where I would spend £30k, however I don't like the ragtop one little bit
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Dammit, Dave, that's another terrible insult. You may as well have said, "Drive an X150? I'd rather make love with that saucy whelk off Countdown". You're setting the comparison bar too high and it renders meaningless your attempt to denigrate the Jag.
Let's try this. Think of something awful. OK, got it? Now use that as a comparison. For example: "Drive an X150? I'd rather snog that bird off two girls one cup.
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With the roof down I think it looks great, but not with it up (where it mostly would be). I'd have had one otherwise.
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I think the 4200 / GS Spyder is one of the best balanced convertibles, to me it looks right with roof up or down
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Yes, very true! It works as a spider and looks good whatever position the roof is in.