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Maybe if they fitted a 2.2 HDi to the XF they could call it 408 and be done :D
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They are offering it a 2.2 to compete with bee ems 520d I'd have the jag both are not the
Prettiest but the jag looks nicer and hasn't got something as bad as I drive
BMW havent made a good looking saloon since the 90s
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Had a full blown row with a BMW driver.

Basically, here - http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 3&t=h&z=19

I was heading from the left to go onto Boucher Road, he was heading from the right onto the same road. As you see on the satellite image, both routes have a lane each.
He came round and I was on the inside in my lane, he wanted in the lane to take the next left, starts beeping his horn and all.

Follows me in to the car park of the shops, and we have an argument. He says his light was green, but I argue back so was mine as both lanes have the same priority. No doubt thought he was the only one on a green cycle and that his turning opened up to the 2 lanes. Tells me to read highway code, I tell him to pay attention to the road markings for a change you typical BMW driver :roll:
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Ha ha them BMW drivers need a bollocking once In a while one near ploughed into the side of me at a roundabout ignoring the sign saying new roundabout and give way to viechles on your right which I was I got a load of light flashing and horn I stopped and pointed at the sign then drove on
A jag driver wouldn't do this
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I guess because BMWs are set up to be "sporty", the drivers get all aggressive and agitated. Even small details, like the wheel is set up so you clench it, and this causes you to sit slightly forward in an aggressive pose.

Whereas Jags are for wafting about, smoke a cigar, and effortlessly reach your destination.
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I agree
I'd therefore want the jag just to waft about with the cigar and you can always tell the ladies you drive a jaaag
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FarmerPug wrote:I agree
I'd therefore want the jag just to waft about with the cigar and you can always tell the ladies you drive a jaaag
The Jag is Lesley Phillips :)

The beemer is the ruthless German out of Inglorious Basterds.
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FarmerPug wrote:I agree
I'd therefore want the jag just to waft about with the cigar and you can always tell the ladies you drive a jaaag
Cigars stink mate wouidnt be wanting to Man one of them up in a jag,

might be better off with a Roll up than a cigar if you become a jag owner you wouid need to smoke roll ups as the petrol they drink wouid drain any chance of luxuries :(
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ah now you woldnt need to smoke the cigar, just have it in your mouth for the look of the thing.
I sat in a jag xj6 the owner was a smoker and the car was indeed quite stinking from the cigarettes, the ashtray was full.
But despite that i really do like that car, your sitting low down in this nice cocoon of an environment, its nice and cosy or something, and then the noise them things are very nice and this wasnt event the v8 just a flat 6.
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Im a smoker but inever smoke in a car,
iglue down the Ashtrays so no one can use them!..cig smoke is a killer on car interiors,
this one ive got now had a Smokey headlighning its took me months to get it clean and buying differnt stuff that didnt work,

Daz soap powder got it clean in the end strangely, :supafrisk:
ihate the smell of smoke in a car and ash on the mats and dash is not for me icarnt see why they smoke in cars tbh,
just park up get out and spark one up is easy enough ithink,
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I don't smoke but my mum does and it meant when we shared the Clio it smelt of smoke my car now is free of smoke and staying that way
For a proper smoke smell I had an uncle used to smoke a pipe jeez that thing was stinking
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FarmerPug wrote:I don't smoke but my mum does and it meant when we shared the Clio it smelt of smoke my car now is free of smoke and staying that way
For a proper smoke smell I had an uncle used to smoke a pipe jeez that thing was stinking
yuck pipe tobaco smells like shite well some sorts of it does they must have no sense of smell them that smoke it,
but saying that alot of people smoke the old ching & chong thats just as bad can knock a budgie of its perch that stuff :P
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