Originally Posted by Rickkk

trosty wrote: "Therefore I decided to bite the bullet and buy a new car. Not another Jag ( I was thinking 2007 XK convertible) but a 2015 Ford Taurus SEL with all the bells and whistles and a 5 year Wrap warranty. I really, really wanted something that I would not have to work on for the next 5 years at least".


You might reconsider your decision on the Ford as all of the big three domestic car companies have been run by bean counters for decades. That Taurus might very well wind up chalking up more time in the dealer service department than anywhere else.

In my case, I finally had to ditch the Lincoln Continental that I owned as both of the head gaskets blew at once (with oil gushing out of both). I suppose that Ford couldn't have spent the extra $.50 to install some quality head gaskets on the engine. Before that even occured, I had to tape over (or ignore) one fault light after another with that car. The door window switches were crap, and the driver's side window wouldn't open/close (as the mechanism was shot). In fact, the air conditioning wouldn't work, nor was the air suspension functional. The best that I could say about the vehicle was that it handled well.

Get yourself the 2007 XK convertible.