Jingsamichty

I know a tosser who crashed and wrote off his "Scooby-Doo" too. I would ask if it was the same bloke, but it almost certainly wasn't. There are loads of tossers who wrote off Scoobies out there!!

retsujou

No, I have not. It does look like a nice car. I think I recall that build quality and faults used to be a problem with Jaguars, has that changed? Who actually supplies the parts now? That is not a Jaguar engine is it?

Souvenir

That's odd. One of my neighbours works in finance. He drives a Lexus. He does shovel his drive, though.

dbd33

My partner's sister crashed hers. After waiting hours for help she started walking and so got fined for "leaving the scene" as well as "careless driving". Disgusted, she went to work in India.

iaink

Well, Saabs are still a corporate parking lot option here that wont paint you as a particular type (other than independent), and available with AWD too.

My dad had a 900 too. They were great cars. Just not been the same since the GM takeover I'm afraid. They seem to have lost the eccentricity that made them special. I guess thats part of the reason I like Subarus....the independent blind faith that they are engineering them right, even though no one does the boxer engine configuration or AWD across the board.

Thankfully Subaru styling seems to have progressed to be less quirky, mostly. My cars are a Honda Civic and a Subaru Legacy, but I dont have anything like the income you seem to have to throw at the choice, and I need to accomodate kids.

I forgot all about Cadillac earlier...that would be the natural domestic made corporate choice, they have made great strides in dynamics and performance, but i suppose are still seen as a bit behind the germans and japs. It creates a certain "when in Rome" impression though I suppose.

Jingsamichty

I believe it is a Jaguar designed & manufactured engine.

Are you Austrian? Stop being so damned Teutonic, with your questions about build quality and faults.

iaink

Jaguar build quality is among the best now anyway.

The top (business) half of the engine is all jaguar, but the block I think is the ford aluminum V8 block common to a number of other brands. Thats just the nature of modern car branding. No one seems concerned that a Lexus has a raft of parts in common with a bog standard Toyota, and they shouldnt be. Thankfully though the days of spotting cheap ford parts bin wiper stalks on Jags and Astons are long gone I think.

Steve_P

I have a Toyota Camry Hybrid I like it a lot.

It has almost the same performance as a V6 Camry but it certainly isn't sporty.

The Prius does better mileage wise but doesn't have any sort of performance, or there is the Highlander Hybrid Don't know anything about that one as SUV's are not my thing.

I understand Lexus has three hybrid vehicles, the GSh, RXh and LSh.

Steve_P

40mpg city driving and 50mpg highway with a 2007 Camry Hybrid I would say is a bit better than marginal.

retsujou

Very interesting. Unfortunately the car is past my magic threshold I refuse to pay more than a 100.000$ for any type of car. So it is out of the question

iaink

Sounds good. However, the civic hybrid for example in real world testing gets 42mpg, and I get 39 in a regular one.

My point (if I had one) is that the real world milage is much further from the theoretical advertised milage by even more than the real world numbers for regular gas engined vehicles.

retsujou

Yes I looked at the GSh 450 in particular and I love some of the features it has. It does ot look too bad either and due to the hybrid nature it seems to behave fairly well on the "sporty" behaviour front as well.

Souvenir

Life can be tough.

retsujou

Indeed. Especially when you have to pay extra to drive a stick, I f*** hate automatic transmissions

iaink

Automatics and manumatics have come a long way.

If you want stick on your execumobile that will severely limit your options in the canadian marketplace.