Smooth Or What !

[Adam Evans]

I had someone in the garage today saying how they prefer the Jag to the Lexus as its just an over all better car

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I wouldnt give up without a fight !!!!!

Just to prove a point I filled a mug up with water (put some dye in it for the purposes of the video) put it ontop of the manifold and took the car up to the rev limiter.

It was that full that I spilt some walking from the tap to the car !!!

Here is the results

[black400]

Maybe he was talking about the paint.

[ManicMark]

Ther is a video somewhere of a stack of champagne glasses filled to the brim on the bonnet & revved up not a drop spilt & another of a glass of water on top of the engine on a rolling road taken up to 145mph & back down again same result.

[messi]

Jags are british, that's why they are so rubbish, well british by name, I hear they use French engines on some models, nothing beats the Lexus ls400

[Malc]

wasn't there a 50p piece test too sometime back !

Malc

[Adam Evans]

Water is more fun !!!!

The person questioning me and saying a Jag is better was in his Mondeo at the time and his words were "my car can do that"

So up went his bonnet.

I had to catch the cup as it fell over !!!!!

[The-Acre]

Excellent. There is an old Top Gear video on YouTube showing the same thing with the Jag Merc and BMW. Lexus comes out on top of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y-Gdz6N-dU

[SHELLDRAKE]

I have just seen your video-- I just could not believe my eyes but the proof is there for all to see I might try it on my 400.

[Adam Evans]

And that is on an engine with 253000 on the clock.

If I was to tape up the odometer so you couldn't see it you would think it was brand new out of the factory !!!

[Adam Evans]

Here is that advert

And here is a LS460 trying and failing at the same thing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - It's not an LS400 hahaha

[Bluesman]

Oh dear, back to the drawing board. What a terrible accusation, glued in deed, he must have believed it to try on his own car.

[Cotswold Pete]

Water is more fun !!!!

The person questioning me and saying a Jag is better was in his Mondeo at the time and his words were "my car can do that"

So up went his bonnet.

I had to catch the cup as it fell over !!!!!

Was there not a time when the Jag was just a Mondeo with an expensive skin (or was that the Saab)

Most British cars have the potential to be good, just that UK companies run by mediocre management who cannot communicate with work force.

Having said that a visit to Honda in Swindon was scary - used to sell IT to them - and they all have to do what the top says, and though they have a voice (small one) to be heard, it came across as soulless robotic place to work.

So maybe (to paraphrase the Metro adverts of old) hand built by robots (not roberts) is what makes a a Honda a reasonably well built car.

[bigjap]

yes your right the x type was mondeo in drag.the saab was a vectra