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Yeah their new stuff is good. But they obviously used to copy and they didnt build that good of cars until a couple of years ago.
The problem I have with Kias/Hyundais is their cheap components. Their connectors snap if you look at em the wrong way, and the ones that come in just don't seem to hold up well. Maybe they've improved, I hope they have. I won't be buying one
Yes both companies have made leaps and bounds in car design and performance. If u want the copiers talk to the Chinese. They couldn't design a car if they wanted to.
Don't worry about the haters, they need to be learners. Hyundai is doing really well right now and they've got a great lineup of vehicles.
I'm sad to think that you guys hate my home country's car manufacturers :( don't hate an Hyundai or kia
The problem is, these cars are less reliable than a weather forecast. I'd stay away and buy an E46 3.0 BMW instead.
These aren't the best looking cars but not ugly either. The new jags really do look great though.
I always hated cars from this era. They always lacked style, and the only people who went outside the box priced their car in 6 figures
Description: The first of these is simple economics, the Ford years were very dark ones for Jaguar, and being their best-selling model doesn't actually mean selling well. In truth, the X-Type failed to meet s...
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Description: The cabin was littered with switches and other components from the Ford parts bin, and the Jaguar-ish front fascia did little to reassure us that we were looking at a genuine Jag. That said, the X-Typ...
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The Catera is the original attempt at bringing the Commodore to the states. Had GM done it properly everyone would be hailing the Catera as much as people hail the Pontiac G8.
the catera was not a bad car, it just suffered from a bad parts network and the fact that repairers thought it was a Cadillac and didn't know how to work on it
@ Stephen: I commented that exact same comment about a week ago on a different story. Your bringing it up again made me laugh
He's talking about the Cadillac Catera, a late 90s entry level Caddy that was a rebadged Opel Omega. I had one a couple years ago, had some nice features and was comfortable, but terribly unreliable.
At people who don't get why this car is bad. Reference it to a chick. Good looking expensive taste (looks great). But turns out no personality and comes from a broken home (3.0l dog and it's a ford contour). Generally you would ditch the chick.
Tom, I'm in the market for one an the one's selling for 6,000 are dogs. I'm looking for an easy to work on AWD car, and once people realize its a 3.0 Duratec they go, oh yeah we can totally work on that.
The X-Type wasn't bad but the S-Type was better. Especially if you got the S-Type with the R package. My dad had one and it was amazing
After driving my parent's s-class jag, the x type just felt cheap and brittle. It was nowhere near the same quality of other jaguars.
I loved this style x-type. Sport i believe. Could be wrong tho. I always wanted one back in the day.
It is a pretty decent car and there's a huge number of them available on the used market for reasonable prices these days. That's sort of the downside though, it just doesn't feel exclusive like a Jag should.
You know, I wanted to hate this car... Thing is over the past few years every time I have driven one, particularly the manual trans 3.0... It's not bad. Pretty solid European feel.
Not the worst car I can think of, I actually think this one is pretty good looking
Description: The styling wasn't spectacular, and you could still definitely see the Contour/Mondeo in it, but even at a glance, it was clearly something different from its platform mates. Mechanically spe...
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It was known as the Suzuki Vitara in the US as well, the Vitara is still going strong on GM's Theta architecture used on the Equinox and Terrain.
Description: The 2.5- and 3.0-liter AJ V6 engines were classified as Jaguar-made engines, although this isn't strictly true. They were basically Ford Duratec engines, with which Jaguar had fiddled a bit, incl...
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Or it could be that Jaguar has always been known for gremlins in their cars and that Ford actually corrected a lot of their problems.
Not to mention that the transfer box is an absolute b******d to change. Horrible cars that couldn't have gone out of production any sooner. Onwards and upwards for Jag from this though.
They improved a thousand fold under Ford. I remember reading an article with a Ford engineer and he relayed that buying Jaguar was a mistake. The old XJ's prior to Ford would average more than two inch gaps in sheet metal.
Jag makes great cars now, they've improved tenfold in the last five years.
If only jaguar was as reliable as a merc or BMW. Why is it so hard for them to make a semi reliable car?
This car looks great. Look at its lines!! i dont know what people are think about them but i think x-type is one of the best looking sport sedan.
Description: This was a car which also shared a platform, but here it wasn't nearly so much of a problem. The platform was designed with the idea that Jaguar would use it in mind. The non-Jag which used it wa...
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Description: Perhaps another factor was that X-Type was an entry-level vehicle, and would therefore be competing with the Audi A4. The BMW 3-Series would obviously be its chief rival, but Audi entry-level model ha...
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A4 and A6 use the same platform, which is shared with the Passat. A6 in basic engineering is a long wheel base A4.
@axel yeah my friends a4 is really similar to my jetta not the passat. And I know jags are hit or miss.
Lol wtf the A4 shares platform mainly with the Jetta/Bora... not the passat, the Audi analog to the passatis the A6.
My parents had a 2006 range Rover and it was the worst car ever all it did was breakdown
Lol... My dad has a 1988 xj6 and a 1997 range rover 4.0 that both run very well.. In fact the rangie is his dd.
Description: That was the case for decades well before the X-Type ever came along, but they kept selling cars. No, the problem with the X-Type was that the badge engineering was just too obvious. You were clearly ...
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The "Plymouth" Neon is probably the most destructive instance of badge engineering in recent years. That was the final nail in the brand's coffin after a lot of bad decisions.
Yeah the interior pieces are 100% Jaguar, and they followed the Saab theory. "GM makes a shitty nav system, we'll put in our own."
The x-type is not a bad car. Every car editor says this is a terrible car. Read an article by an owner of this car like myself and you'll hear nothing but praises. I owned vw's for years before this car, and wanted luxury. I looked at A4's, 3 series and the C class and left a Lexus dealership with my X-type. I've owned the car for over 2 years and have only had to change the oil and break pads. I ...