Gave the cat a good wash and wax this afternoon and there was nice sun shine around, so went for a drive, then after an hour on the road it started raining, typical. Anyway spotted this lambo parked at a seaside beach so had to get some pics, not great quality as is was pouring down and overcast. Still nice though, that lambo has one wide ***.

 

While the Lambo is an attention getter, I think your XKR looks much prettier

 

At times, those exotic Italians can be a little too cartoonish for me.
But, I still look.
I didn't get any pics this morning, but, met up with a local chap (member of this forum) and there was a couple exotic Italians flexing their high pitch exhaust systems in attendance.
Unlike powerhouse's day, we had bright sun and temps moving into the 90ºs (32º+)

 

Lambo's have always been a little too angular for me. I'd look good in one and it would look great in my driveway... but the jag's curves flow like a fine woman. We have the better looking ride.

 

Besides woman these are my favorite 2 shapes. I like the wedge shape of the modern Ferrari or Lambo and I like the smooth curve of the Jag. The Jaguar is more classic while the wedge is more raw. Just my 2 cents

 

I'd take this over any Lambo:

 

Italian styling is the opposite of Jaguar styling. Jaguar designs tends to be timeless vs. Italian exotics tend to be more fashion driven and more outrageous.

I used to own 2 Lamborghinis decades back and ran around with the Lambo club for over 10 years. That was the time the Countach was the "new" model. While some of the older models at the time already looked dated, the Countach caused a riot where ever it went. There was practically not a human being that could ignore its looks and sounds. I saw 80+ year old lady with a walking cane, bent over with age, turning around for an other look as we went by.

Now, decades later the Countach styling has aged to the point of looking kit-car-ish! However, looking at today's leading-Lambo, the Aventador, tend to bring out pretty much the same emotions from people. That is what Lamborghinis supposed to do!

When Audi purchased Lamboghini, they toned down the designs with the Diablo and the Gallardo and most of us, old-time Lambo afficionados, disapproved. We grew to like the outrageousness in those cars and did not want watered down versions.

I will treasure my my years spent with the (then very small) Lamborghini community including that "Thank You" letter, personally signed by Sig. Feruccio Lamborghini for my sometimes wild (speed) activities, promoting the brand. I am still in contact with many of them, still follow up on the histories of the two extremely rare cars I owned. Yeah, the prices for them are through the roof, once again :-).

 

Yesterday I was at a European car show - lots of interesting cars, including two newish Maserati coupés...as I examined them both closely and from a distance I noted a vague resemblance to the XK...except that the Maserati looks like an XK designed by a committee that could not agree on anything. The lines are all wrong, the trim is excessive - the portholes on the front fenders! -, the gigantic MASERATI badge on the rear end (yikes! is that compensation for something missing or too small?)....all in all not nearly as well-conceived as the XK. I have heard, though, that some of them actually last as long as the warranty period but that might be a myth...

 

Funny you say that, even though at a glance or in pictures they look pretty hot, I've found up close they are all out of proportion. Not my cuppa at all. I like the shark gills though. I'm a not so closet bogan (redneck).

 

Thanks for posting that photo of the XJ220

One of the best supercar designs of all time. My all time fantasy car. That carbon fiber bodied suped one, even more so. I had a chance to sit in one that visited our store for a few weeks. Remembered the absolute rawness of an old Fort GT40 I sat in, and a not too much better F40 (fixed plexiglass door windows and a strap to pull the door shut) the XJ220 was a revelations. ...

All leather trimmed finished with power windows (maybe seats?), it seemed just like a Jag inside. Damn, so cool! What incredible lines. Davy Jones drove it during the record runs at Nardo, clocking 212 with Cats and 217 without. The first time I met him back in 07 for the XK training, I asked him what the XJ220 felt like during those runs. It could have been because he was working for the company but it was still cool. He just said 'It felt like a Jag.'

That 217 mph run was supposed to be the equivalent of a 223 mph run if it was taken somewhere with a big enough straight. I don't know if there is anything except the salt flats. Be cool to hear about someone taking one and seeing what it could do with the tire scrub from Nardo's corners.