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It's a 3.0 Rick.
Who would buy one of those?

 

While not necessarily my cup of tea.... That one looks pretty well done. Kept the rest of the trim stock, even chrome stock wheels. They also followed the lines of the car correctly. It looks like a two tone that the factory would have done if the factory did two tone.

 

Does it look like a taxi to some of yas?

 

Can you imagine Jag S-Types doing cab service in NYC?

 

Nowhere near NYC, but our local taxi company had a few S-types in their fleet as well as some Mercs and Audis. When calling for a pickup you could specify which type of car you wanted. The Jags were always very popular.

 

So what's wrong with the 3.0's?

This one looks well done and very clean, albeit not my cup of tea.

We have a local privately owned that is an X type 3.0/

 

Looks more like a North Carolina Highway Patrol Car than a taxi cab. Slap a state seal emblem on both doors, a blue light on the roof, and you would be able to start your own business pulling speeders on the highways at rush hour and collecting cash on the spot to let 'em go with a warning....

 

I was just having a wee dig for the 3.0 bashing in this thread https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/s...r-input-69541/

 

Not NYC... But..



So, cop car you want?????

 

And another, it used to be the bad guys that had the Jags back in the day,

Cops-


Robbers-

 

I once witnessed a winter pothole in NYC swallow the front end of a yellow cab.

An S-Type would be snack food.

I only drive my Suburban into that urban jungle.

 

I don't know about that. A couple of years ago I drove my granddaughter up to NYC for the weekend and I thought my S-Type was pretty handy. It was pretty agile and in Sport Mode, accelerated rather smartly. It was fun watching the pedestrians scatter when they heard the intake roar. Normally they just seemed to cross the road whenever they wanted, even if they were against the light. Once they realized I was an out-of-towner I guess they thought better of venturing out in the street.

 

You ... got lucky. be thankful for that.

 

Yup.... Used to drive into Manhattan and Staten Island all the time when I worked for a now dead consumer electronics retailer (Nobody Beats the WIZ).

And, yes, that friggen place will tear up a car... I used to go over to the "home delivery" department and take one of the spare trucks if I had to go in. Tore up the front end on the Cougar one to many times....

 

I also get plenty of practice in DC traffic. It's horrible and the roads are just about as bad as in NY. Before it got repaved, I-66 was like a motocross track, potholes about every 20 feet or so.

 

The WHIZ! Oh yeah, big in NJ. Their flagship store on RTE 22 in NJ. That section of 22 is one of the worst places in the world to drive. I used to live about 25 miles west of there in Warren.

 

Yea.... that stupid store.......... only called the "flag ship" because they got that stupid building sitting in the middle of the highway then made it pointed like a ship to fit the island.. Ugggg. I hated that thing... (my position was store support manager out of Carteret where their HQ used to be). Try and find stuff to go in a "pointy" store....Stupid boat shaped building...

My favorite WIZ store was on Long Island.. It was in a strip mall. The store front was maybe the size of a large Radio Shack.. The trick... You walked through the main doors and were greeted by a wall of TV's over a huge escalator that went down.. The whole store was under the strip mall. That thing was neat.

That and the many floors of the Manhattan store... It's so sad what the family did to that business....

I hate most of RT22.. My Sister used to live in Greenbrook, before they moved out to the Boston area... Yea... 22 Sucks... Thanks though.. at least tonight when all the left lane morons are out in Ohio I'll just think "Well, could be worse......"


Man, this is just one of those silly threads that just wanders all over the place.. LOL

 

Back in the day drove a 1970 slant 6 Plymouth Valiant beater in NYC !!!
Even the cabbies wouldn't get near me. Loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

One more cop car S-Type R from Finland