Heh, I'd probably agree on the early ones, but models from 2002 onwards were heavily revised to make them much less closely related.....
Well, that's my excuse for wanting one, and I'm sticking to it.
The later ones look better. That's really all that matters in making the S-type a "good" car, as the Scorpio DNA is well lost within the DEW98 platform (the primary bit being the 2.3 with balancers originally being considered as an entry-level DEW98 Jaguar possibility, apparently) and the Scorpio, whilst ugly, was a perfectly good car in terms of handling and ride.
Modern cars are all so much a mess of components from different places and folded steel with too-thick pillars, that I don't think the badge on the front makes the slightest bit of difference apart from to market position and "status". So if you like the look of the car, like the feel of the car, and can afford it, I don't think anything else matters a bit.
Though if I had an S-type I'd constantly be annoyed it wasn't an XF.
Richard
I'd prefer my tarted up Ford to look like a Jag than to look like what it really is, though.....
The more I look at the XF, the more I think it looks like the Mondeo's bigger brother.
Given that the Mondeo is now not a bad looking car, I don't think that's so bad. It also looks like Aston Martin's ugly cousin, too.
It's the interior that gets me. So much shiny. I've already dismissed it as impractical/possibly unreliable, but it's still SO shiny.
Richard
Had one behind me earlier - the front is just odd - as if they tried to make double headlamps with lightbrows on the inners - looks like nothing else on earth, and therefore as the current 5 series did at launch looks plain wrong. I'm sure the initial shock will turn into admiration though.
Side, rear 3/4 and rear views look great though - but the leaper on the back and growler on the front are just plain wrong - bonnet mounted leaper would never work so maybe a leaper badge in the grille (mustang style) and a growler on the back would restore the symmetry look.
You'll soon have them if you keep on the way you are.
Tssk, it's a tarted up Lincoln Town Car. Nothing to do with a Scorpio.
Town Car? ITYM LS, which is based on DEW98 platform, which is very heavily derived from/influenced by the Scorpio (the last-six-month facelift of the Scorpio marked revisions to the platform that were basically bits of DEW98 coming on stream). Town Car is a body-on-frame job based on Ford's Panther platform, same as a Crown Vic.
Richard
Ah yes, inability to tell one heap of crap from another.
That was an opinion Steve himself used to slag off the S type not very long ago ;-)
I liked my Scorpio.
They're on Top Gear right now :-) 170mph, all day, whilst it's 122f outside, and the AC must keep the temp to 71.6f hehe! To be fair I'd be surprised if people mistook them for Passats, I reckon most people would just think it was a sundrie big german car - been that that's the limit of a lot of peoples knowledge of cars that aren't there own. If pushed, they'd probably think it was an Audi.
Unlimited, smooth and totally stable 201mph from the 6.0 W12 "And even at that speed, I still couldn't hear the engine". Clarkson, as a huge Jag fan, chose the Phaeton over the equivalent Jag... I wonder how the Contental GT, with the 550bhp twin turbo version of that of that W12 can only muster
198mph? The specific output per litre is of course quite poor relatively speaking, but the torque figures are mightily impressive.MotorsForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.