Beautiful cars

Citroen gt

Everyone has different tastes.

Preferably with a LS swap.

That just drives me up the wall.

All these rare cars, some of them true mileposts in automotive engineering...and the Stupids shoehorn the SAME DAMN ENGINE into ALL of them.

You want a Chevy, buy a Chevy.

If you own a 50-year-old Jaguar, made by British Leyland, in its dying years, while it was still trying to pretend they could engineer something...and they did, the 12-cylinder Jag V engine was remarkable, even if troublesome...if you buy such a car, LEAVE IT AS IT IS.

EVERY damn special-interest car, gets a Chevy engine. Jeep pickup trucks from the AMC years. Ford Model As. Chevy Vegas (dangerous, since the torque of a Chevrolet V8 will twist that unibody). Various imports, including one Datsun 240Z I saw for sale.

Engines in these all start the same, sound the same, perform the same. To make the swap easier, they usually leave an automatic transmission on the engine. So they drive just like Grandma's Nova, or a rental car.

To each his own, but I would also accept a Coyote V8 Ford engine. They at least used to own Jaguar.

Crusader wrote:Preferably with a LS swap.

Not a fan of the Jag , you need to take out the engine to replace the starter motor lol

If you can afford to own one, you don't care.

Like a Maserati, years ago. It had hydraulic everything, including window controls. And failures were systemic...an owner could expect it parked at the dealer, more than at home.

Maserati was counting on the owners not being perturbed, but they were wrong. By 1982 or thereabouts, Maserati disappeared from US markets.

Jaguar was owned by Ford, for a time, but those were not Ford's best times. That was in the era of the jellybean F150 which was truly lethal in a crash - the new cab of that time looked great, but was as strong as tinfoil. So, I doubt that Jaguar had any improvements in ease of service or basic engineering, in those eight years Ford owned them.