I haven't kept up. You of all people should know that I live about 4-10 years behind the times.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, rather than put that bitchin' motor in the new Ford GT, they are going with an Ecoboost V6s. Going to sound like shit.

Huh, WTF? Why won't they put that motor or smaller displacement version of it in the GT? That's dumb. Are they really going to turbo the GTs?

Anyways, still took them 10 years. The Modular should have been close to 100hp/liter from day one.

V6 is smaller package for less weight and better handling. They want to race it at Le Mans. A ford GT without the sound of a mid-engine V8 is not a ford GT to me.

Get a glorious Jaguar E-Type and whenever people doubt your choice of car recite the Clarkson speech.

My dad has a '71 E-type 4.2 Series II. It looks absolutely absurd in modern parking spaces parked next to modern cars, like a toy because of how small it is. It also makes the current gen XK8 parked next to it in the garage look like a fat whale.

I love the size of older sports cars. Modern cars are hungry hungry hippos by comparison. Even my FRS which is dwarfed by current cars is taller than my XJS which is an extremely long car for a 2 door coupe. Long but short.

IMO the XJS was the last real Jag Jag. Before his string of XKs my dad had the last of the breed, a '96 convertible. Ergonomically it was awful, it handled like a pig, and the electrics barely worked, but the inside was like a poor man's Bentley, far better than the shitty looking R129 Benz SL of that period. The drop in quality of the '97 Ford Jag XK8 was shocking. He had two of those first gen Ford XKs, I hated them both.

I-6 or V12? Did his '96 have the older Lucas electronics or the newer Magneti Marelli? I got my '94 coupe specifically for the MM electronics (that and AC plus better cylinder head design) which have been stellar so far. Stock it handles horribly. You really realize what these older cars felt like to drive. I know it's pretty easy fix though. Not a problem. I don't think ergonomics were invented yet back then, lol. One of the pet peeves is finding a wiper blade to conform to the massive curved windshield. Like trying to fit a chopstick to a basketball.

I-6. He was too nervous of the 12's famous foibles to go that route, though he only ended up keeping the car for two years before buying a '98 XK. Not sure about the electronics, I just remember being pulled over driving home at night because the headlights and brake lights were working, but all interior lights and the tail lights were dark. The cop said "Jag, huh" and laughed, and said that since the brake lights still came on, I could drive it home and have it fixed. If the car had gone completely dark he'd have to have it towed, which wouldn't have gone over well at home.