I bet he won't do that again...

LOL. Murphy's Law:- It wasn't gonna happen to a =A3100 2CV was it!:)

Wonderful! How on earth did they manage to cut the windscreen in half like that?

Only a cat C?

Would make a good basis for an aftermarket convertible project!

And why is it that so many listings, particularly for cars, are in massive, bold uppercase? It's tiring to read!

I'd like to know the insurance situation with that. Did he have to claim off his own insurance, or the insurance of the person he was assisting or what?

->LOL. Murphy's Law:- It wasn't gonna happen to a £100 2CV was it!:)

At least it wasn't a real Jag.......

Surprised me too.

Conor ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

54-plate Jag, no mechanical damage. Got to be worth reshelling.

In news:Xns976B98887DDC6adrianachapmanfreeis@204.153.244.170, Adrian wrote something quite bizarre, possibly in an effort to confuddle the world. It went like so;

Bingo!

Mine's a 53 plate - but was damaged when only 4 months old. Hit up the arse so hard the bootlid went through the back window. Bootlid was about a foot long..

Fortunately I live not far from Halewood - so could get replacement rear

1/4s and stuff for remarkably small amounts of money "direct from the production line.."

Funny thing was, even though the back end was a bit "unpretty" the parking sensors still worked and there was zero major damage mechanically. The replacement rear screen went straight in even though the car has had new

1/4s fitted.

Near enough identical to that one as well.

Pete M ( snipped-for-privacy@bogoffwithzepressedmeatblueyonder.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

And they say that it's an unfair, untrue stereotype about scousers...

Really? I thought the Jaguar badges at the back, the fact the advert is for a Jaguar X type, the RAC website returns the fact the vehicle make is a Jaguar, and the DVLA tax enquiry site also agrees that it is indeed, a Jaguar.

Just as well you're here to know better and put us straight.

He's referring to the fact that Jaguar was once a manufacturer of luxury and sporting cars, but now is just a name on a badge; the Lexus to Ford's Toyota.

Air hacksaw.

Tim..

To be fair they still are a manufacturer of luxury and sporting cars (S-type, XJ & XK), it's just they also chose to restyle and a rebadge a Mondeo for their bottom of the range car.

It's a Ford.

Remove the S-Type from the list of 'luxury and sporting cars' and you're right...... problem with the S-Type is that it's based on some Merkin barge that itself was based on the old frog-faced Scorpio.

Which is not all bad, in that the Scorpio really wasn't a bad car at all apart from the styling, but is bad, in that the Scorpio was not a contender in the sub £30,000 executive market, so why they thought it could be moved up to the sub £50,000 market instead...

Richard

Didn't know that, knew it was RWD and wrongly assumed they'd based it on the XJ.

'Real' Jags had bespoke bodywork and engines and major mechanics - apart from their Daimler clones which were obviously that with just a different badge and some trim.

Ford decided to try and profit from the name by producing high volumes of cars based on their other platforms and running gear but at a premium.

Didn't work.

QED.

*Unnecessary question mode*

From this comment I assume you've never driven an S-Type R then Steve?

The Merkin barge wasn't based on the frog-faced Scorpio. The frog faced Scorpio was based on the Mk3 Granada - which was based on the Mk2 - which was based on the Mk1 - which wasn't that distant a relative of the Zodiac..

However, the Lincoln LS chassis was meant to be the underpinnings for the Granada *after* the FFScorpio - which Ford decided not to build after watching large, non prestige, cars take a bellyflop similar to Peter Kay in the "Top Bombing" advert.

Obviously, I haven't. I'm most un-impressed with my father-in-law's X-type, though. It's all very Ford in there.

That's a rather different view than the ones I've read.