XJ40 Featured in "Crap Cars."
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XJ40 Featured in "Crap Cars." - 7/5/2008 4:48:48 PM
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Bnc2doz
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Hi everyone, sorry if I''ve been a bit of a post whore lately, but I couldn''t resist putting this up.
I recently came across the book "Crap Cars" by Richard Porter in a local Borders, and I was surprised to find my car featured in it. It looks like they were mostly referring to the earlier XJ40''s, still, I thought it was pretty funny. Here''s his write up, I found it online:
"42 JAGUAR XJ6 (1987-1994) When the XJ6 was announced in 1986 it was described as a "clean sheet design." In which case Jaguar had clearly taken that clean sheet, written on it everything that people loved about their cars, and then thrown it in the trash. Good-bye to curvaceous styling, strong performance, and traditionally luxurious interiors, hello to the box-fronted horror you see here with its appalling Atari-like dashboard and all the acceleration of a tired snail. Still, there were at least two "traditional" Jaguar qualities that remained: the one that made various major components work on a strictly part-time basis and the one that allowed sundry pieces of the interior to fall off. In fairness to Jaguar, the XJ6 was developed on the kind of budget that BMW would allocate to a new ashtray, which perhaps explains why, once they''d carved the finished design out of clay and sent it away to be turned into metal, the back end melted, giving it an unintentionally saggy appearance that nobody bothered to fix. This was probably the greatest travesty of all. Because no one expects the back of a Jag to look like the buttocks of a plumber poking over the top of his slack-assed jeans."
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1993 Jaguar XJ6, Kingfisher Blue with Doeskin Leather
1997 Jeep Cherokee Sport, Bright White with Gray Cloth
Marin County, California
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