I saw a new red XF parked just down the street last weekend. I thought it looked really smart!

 

On the way home from the dealership after picking up my new (to me) F V6 S, I was almost rear ended by a tradesman in a ute (pickup) who was too busy pointing and gesturing about my car to his make in the ute in the lane beside him to notice I had stopped in the traffic. Was squealing of tyres and sling rubber.

I hope this doesn't become a regular occurrence.

 

Get used to it. I regularly see people behind me at the lights taking photo's. A car followed me for several kilometres in Geelong with the passenger filming me with his iPhone.

 

When I was getting tint I had one of the workers come up and ask me about the car. He then insisted that it was based on the Saturn Sky platform that Jaguar bought from them when they went under.

I just nodded and went along. However I've never found any data that supported that Jaguar bought the platform the Sky/Solstice were built on, nor that the F-Type used anything from those vehicles.

 

Feel free to tell him he's an idiot. Did the Sky have an aluminum frame? And Saturn didn't go out of business per se, as they were a division of GM. (True, GM went through bankruptcy...)
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The son of a friend thought mine looked like a Sky. His dad was horrified, but I was amused. Actually, I don't think the Sky/Solstice look bad for a cheap roadster.

 

Ha yes, also was having a little mild but loud play in a few industrial back streets when a SRT Chrysler 300c clamped itself to my back bumper and was trying to get me to race. I gave him a couple of squirts and could get away from him briefly from a turn but wasn't going to risk Licence or crash to really play with him properly. He seemed disappointed.

 

Next time I will. hah

I actually was looking at getting a Sky at one point. It was a sharp little roadster for the price. The Saturn badge is what hurt it the most.

Back on topic, I hand wash my Coupe on the weekend behind my building. I tend to get the same people walking by and had an older woman tell me that it looks better every week. Otherwise it is mostly thumbs up from people walking or driving by.

 

Heh-heh. Yes, I get a lot of "lads" looking for a squirt along St Kilda beach. If they're sitting on my rear bumper, I turn on the active exhaust, shift it to Sport mode, then give the accelerator enough of a push to quickly open up a decent gap and set the fireworks off in the process. Then I'll just pull in to the the other lane and let them draw their own conclusions as to why I'm not going to bother racing them.

 

How I feel every time I'm washing my F Type

 

Impossible:
The sky has a track/wheelbase of 61/95. The F-Type is 63fr-65rr/103.

 

Which makes the conversation even funnier since the wheelbase is what he kept insisting were the same.

 

Ah yes, the two wash mitts method.

 

OK, back on topic..., I'm batting about .500, with folks asking me questions every other fueling it seems. Just as I finished topping off the tank earlier in the week, the clerk left her cash register, coming over to check it out. After telling her it was the F-Type, she smiled and said, "Oh.... So that's what that is! You know, I've heard about those things."

 

In one short trip yesterday, I went to an auto supplies shop and while. Was browsing the detailing section I was listening to all of the staff and several of the customers discussing my car and then they all came out to listen to it when I left.

Then several thumbs up along the road and a guy in a Subaru stuck his head out the window and asked me if it was fun, when I said "heaps" he grinned and said "sounds like it". Then an older guy at a service station where I stopped to get some Ice bailed me up and asked me all about it.

 

Nice one, AnD3rew! What did you pick up in the detailing section?

Gave the car a good wash, wax and polish yesterday. Have this fantastic spay on wax, but Made the mistake of doing the windows first, before applying the wax. Didn't think there was much breeze until I went out later to get petrol and saw the back spray of the wax all over the windows. So, repeat effort today on the windows with the glass cleaner! (Really important getting the glass right with the glass roof, or the car just doesn't look finished.)

 

Haven't decided yet what I want to do for wax, but it's still looking great but just a few fingerprints Etc and some scuffs on the leather. So I just hit some showtime shine, some microfiber cloths ands some leather wipes.

What brand of spray wax are you using?

 

FW1 Racing Formula.




Looking around for a good leather conditioner now for the interior.

 

Back when I had a Series III. XJ6. Those guys seemd to be fans of Leatherique products but to use it properly according to their instructions it is a bit of a messy multi day process.

Also heard that Zaino is very good.

 

I've heard good things about Zaino too.

 

Took my car to cars and coffee on the weekend. Was parked between two ferraris. No one stopped to look at the ferraris everyone stopped to look at and take photos of the F-Type. Was only one other there, a white V6 S coupe with black pack.