Jaguar is even more old fashioned.
The '61 Jag E-type had disc brakes and independent rear suspension when most American cars still had drum brakes and were still riding on suspensions made more for *****-drawn buckboards. Jag began fitting disc brakes to their cars in '53 or so. Even the Corvette didn't get disc brakes until 1965. Jaguar's independent rear suspensions were what many street rodders fitted to their projects, in addition to 9 inch Ford rear ends. Most American cars didn't get IRS until late into the 70's and some still don't have that basic suspension feature. Cadillac didn't come out with a 5-link IRS unit until
this year. That's sad.
Don't get me wrong. I don't **** Cadillacs or American cars in general. Cadillac actually makes some
very decent cars now. I wouldn't own one, but the CTS is a very good car. But the ones from the 70's (like most American cars of that period) were, generally speaking, ill-handling, land yacht, pieces of **** that were designed by people who had not caught up with the times and put together by people who really didn't know anything about quality and didn't care anything about quality.
Under British Leyland, Jaguar quality was nothing to write home about either. But a Jaguar was a way to
show (without a doubt) that you had arrived, while a Cadillac was a way to try to *convince* others that you had arrived... when maybe you hadn't: mobsters, pimps, Miami Beach bound retirees, lottery winners, etc., seemed to be the kind of people who went for Cadillacs. Just my 2 pennies.
I don't like the new Jags though. They (at least the XF and the XJ) look like freakin' Volvos now! The new XK resembles a Mazda Miata on mild steroids.
Great cars and I have nothing against Volvos or Mazdas, but they lost the (traditional) Jaguar styling after the 2005 model year.
What was this thread about anyway? Oh yeah, old fuckers who have
CRS (Can't Remember ****).
