[Shotimes] Interesting...porting the intake

[Neno Albert]

Christian

Nope, I believe that Jaguar is just another Jaguar. I'm not saying all imports are insane when it
comes to maintenance, but a lot of them are. You might find it dumb to bitch about model coding,
but I'm sure you wouldn't like it much if you took your Mercedes to a shop and didn't care to pay
$185 at a dealer for an alignment, but were left with no choice. Unless, of course, you have a
inside connection with a Benz dealer tech who can give you the "decoding" for their gibberish. If
that doesn't have anything to do with maintenance, I don't know what does. I personally prefer to
align my cars twice a year. That either breaks down to $130~ at a good shop or well over $300 at a
dealer. 

Neno
--- Christian Andretta <passport@optonline.net> wrote:
> So is that Jaguar (or Jag-u-are as they pronounce it on stupid radio
> commercials) just really another Ford with poor engineering?  Gimme a break
> bitching about model coding has nothing to do with the performance and
> quality of a vehicle.  Yes it can be argued that maintenance is more
> expensive and parts are dealer specific.  I am not assuming that all
> imported vehicles are better.  Merely that some are and that one should buy
> a vehicle that suits them by using (IMO) country of origin/manufacture as
> the last criterion.  Let me say this, I like my SHO, the idea, the quality,
> the price and performance out of the box.  It could have and should have
> been refined though, afterall I have a 99 (not a real SHO some of you will
> say)  and they had 10 years to get it right.  Of course they still dropped
> the ball.