British cars suck.

[onehandle]

Stop buying those overpriced technical disasters.

[One_Life_To_Give]

2. One buys them to spend time under the Bonnet every week

SOme people like gardening and some like tinkering with cars. British auto's are perfect if you are in the latter.

[brush]

4. With computerization, cars are too complicated to tinker under the bonnet . . .

unless you're a certified mechanic — all by design of course to you have to go to the dealer to get it fixed, and to get overcharged as well.

[lostnfound]

3. They suck but they are pretty.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Considering that Jaguar is made in the Tory countryside,

I have no problem boycotting them.

[kwassa]

6. Really?

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. That's Bad Ass right there.

[LeftyMom]

7. ??? Hardly anybody in the US owns a British car.

Even if you're the sort of tinkerer who doesn't mind that kind of thing, the parts are hellishly expensive and anything you have to farm out to a mechanic is extortionate. And the *#&% electrical is always complete garbage, which is just frustrating because diagnosing that kind of thing is a nightmare.

The only Jaguar owners I know are upper middle class verging on wealthy semi-retirees who need *something* to do with their copious spare time and went against type by not taking up golf.

[lancer78]

8. tell me about it

My first car was a 77 MGB. I replaced all the lucas electronic systems. And I replaced the dual SU carborator for a single weber