Originally Posted By BigDefNeil

Originally Posted By Boshly
Raise the chassis and give it 4WD ala BMW X6


No Jag, please don't do this. These jacked up coupes are all dogs dinners in the looks department. Why does anyone think that these are a good idea: they are too tall and ugly to be sports cars and too low slung to go off road....

Sorry for the rant.

But I really hate these jacked up 4x4 coupes - I like real 4x4s and even soft-roaders and certainly 4x4 saloons but not these.

Back to the Jag though - nice. Very nice. I think it has got the muscle to go down well in the USA - I just hope they give it euro-handling not usa-rock-and-roll.


Agree with you. As a BMW owner the X6 is IMO an awful bit of design which is neither fish nor fowl. Some German design seems to have gone awry - the Audi/VW/Porsche Cayenne style slab sided 4WDs, the X6 and the Panamera (the Aston 4 door shows how it can be done gracefully). I do like the look of the Jaguar as it is distinctive and despite what looks like fairly high sides, sleek. Sitting in Oz at the moment and I would guess that this design would go down very well here - does anyone know how the Jags are for reliability these days?